http://www.youtube.com/citizentube?feature=ticker

Youtube has a bunch of eyewitness videos up.

Hey Donger, it's still March. ;-)

And you were only off by a few thousand miles.

Well, in my estimation, with the way things are going, I doubt this is the last one. The high volumes of earthquakes the Earth's has been having, based on all reports that I've read, are highly unusual.

I stand by my original assessment. Hope it doesn't happen though, and hope that the Earth's crust settles down.

But it sure is looking like the Mayans knew some things that we still don't know.

On another note, Arkansas has only had like 4 earthquakes this week... much less than last week. So, maybe it's chilling the **** out.

I hear that an entire train was simply "lost". Presumed washed away, but the death toll here is not going to stay <100, unfortunately.

You estimate that there will be another earthquake?

Way to lay it all on the line.

Not to fuel the paranoia fire here, but isn't our solar system about to past through the galactic equator? I remember seeing some report of this and how some were theorizing that kind of galactic shift could have a massive effect on our magnetic poles? I'm sure it's appropos to nothing here, just the thought popped into my brain....

IMO, we will see 2-3 or more 8.0s or greater in the next 2-3 months.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...quakes_all.php

As far as Japan goes... they are getting some major aftershocks on this bad boy. like 7-10 5.0+ per hour. Jesus.

They are already well above 300 people lost in and around Sendai. I'm very glad that I left Japan last week....Many of my friends and co-workers are sleeping tonight in our Tokyo office as the JR train lines have been shutdown and they can't get home.

Yep. Who knows on the other shit. But the Mayan's sure think that this will be a trying time, as we move into the new cycle of time. Crossing that galactic equator is a big deal, as supposedly humanity "wakes up". They said every other time we have moved into a new "age" there have been tons of crazy catastrophe's.

So, none of this surprises me.

LMAO

Okay.

Mother nature was just trying to give Oakland a douche.

Somebody up there loves you....

Also, the earthquake apparently shifted the Earth's axis about 10cm / 4inches

The impact of the earthquake that hit Japan this morning shifted the earth's rotation axis is nearly 10 cm. It's the preliminary result of studies carried out by INGV, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.

http://goo.gl/o5Pje

That folks, is a HUGE ****ing earthquake.

Wasn't it earlier in the thread it was posted that St. Louis actually moved a fraction? I figured Rams Fan just took a toilet busting dump, but I guess this could be the reason, as well.

Great, started with car troubles, now I have to worry about a tidal wave...having a great day.

I think the position of the moon has more to do with this than Flying Snake Gods or a 2,000 year old prophecy.

:evil:

Not to make light of this situation, but condsidering this is Japan and a nuclear reactor is melting down should we be on the look out for Godzilla, Rodan and Gamera?

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it's not really that far-fetched.

No, I honestly buy into the idea that we do have more earthquakes when the moon drifts closer and pulls with other heavenly bodies.

It's able to pull tides all by itself on normal and predictable schedules. It does have a clear impact on the surface of the planet...

Pictures

:eek:

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...of_lunar_.html

Did the supermoon do it? Scientists debate if lunar phenomenon caused tsunami

The firewall @ work wouldn't let me on the website so what does this mean? For example, in KC this summer are we looking at 120 degree heat or should we worry about a July 4 blizzard?

I just thank God that my son is ok, got that confirmation this morning. He's a Marine stationed in Okinawa.

Japan is nothing if not resourceful, they'll bounce back.

I'm going to go out on a limb and state that the earthquake caused the tsunami.

"Whut?...

Science!?!..."

I figure it was a Broncos trainer winning the Fain-Cain Award that caused the earth to shift. That uber-event is probably what caused it.

What was bizarre... I had read before going to bed, that today was going to the "Day of Rage" in Saudi Arabia with massive protests... little did we know today would actually be the "Day of Waves".

The Saudis said **** protesting... this should keep the price of crude down a bit. Plus, it is down about $2 today.

Ironically, this whole ordeal may "strengthen" the dollar for the near term and maybe oil will decrease giving us a bit of an ease. Unless more EQ's happen of similar strength, which is very possible.

6.6 quake hits center of Japan.

They never show godzilla on tv anymore :(

Probably already posted...

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Allegedly, some significant damage in Cresent City. 4 people swept out to sea.

http://search.crackle.com/search/?q=godzilla&c=US

:thumb:

Again?

Whoa...

Well over 100 large aftershocks ALL over 4.5

Thats nuts

They are reporting near Nagano which is very close to my company's factory in Toyama. We are trying to find out hob bad damage is and if all are well but it is 4:30am there

Near Tokyo this time.

8.9 Quake rips a hole 150 miles long and 50 miles wide.

I know.

I cannot imagine how terrifying it is to be in Central and Northern Japan right now.

Japan to release of radioactive vapor at nuke plant


TOKYO (AP)—Japan's massive earthquake caused a power outage that disabled a nuclear reactor's cooling system, triggering evacuation orders for about 3,000 residents as the government declared its first-ever state of emergency at a nuclear plant.

Japan's nuclear safety agency said pressure inside one of six boiling water reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant had risen to 1.5 times the level considered normal. To reduce the pressure, slightly radioactive vapor may be released. The agency said the radioactive element in the vapor would not affect the environment or human health.

After the quake triggered a power outage, a backup generator also failed and the cooling system was unable to supply water to cool the 460-megawatt No. 1 reactor, though at least one backup cooling system is being used. The reactor core remains hot even after a shutdown.

The agency said plant workers are scrambling to restore cooling water supply at the plant but there is no prospect for immediate success.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the 40-year-old plant was not leaking radiation. The plant is in Onahama city, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.

If the outage in the cooling system persists, eventually radiation could leak out into the environment, and, in the worst case, could cause a reactor meltdown, a nuclear safety agency official said on condition of anonymity, citing sensitivity of the issue.

Another official at the nuclear safety agency, Yuji Kakizaki, said that plant workers were cooling the reactor with a secondary cooling system, which is not as effective as the regular cooling method.

Kakizaki said officials have confirmed that the emergency cooling system—the last-ditch cooling measure to prevent the reactor from the meltdown—is intact and could kick in if needed.

"That's as a last resort, and we have not reached that stage yet," Kakizaki added.

Japan's nuclear safety agency said the evacuation, ordered by the local government of Fukushima, affects at least 2,800 people. Edano said residents were told to stay at least two miles (three kilometers) from the plant and to stay inside buildings.

He said both the state of emergency and evacuation order are meant to be a precaution.

"We launched the measure so we can be fully prepared for the worst scenario," he said. "We are using all our might to deal with the situation."

Defense Ministry official Ippo Maeyama said the ministry has dispatched dozens of troops trained for chemical disasters to the Fukushima plant in case of a radiation leak, along with four vehicles designed for use in atomic, biological and chemical warfare.

High-pressure pumps can temporarily cool a reactor in this state with battery power, even when electricity is down, according to Arnold Gundersen, a nuclear engineer who used to work in the U.S. nuclear industry. Batteries would go dead within hours but could be replaced.

It was not immediately clear how many of the site's six reactors were affected by the cooling problem.

Speaking at the White House, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also said U.S. Air Force planes were carrying "some really important coolant" to the site. She said "one of their plants came under a lot of stress with the earthquake and didn't have enough coolant."

Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said staff were trying to collect more information on what was happening.

At the Fukushima Daiichi site, "They are busy trying to get coolant to the core area," Sheehan said. "The big thing is trying to get power to the cooling systems."

Meanwhile, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said in a statement that closures of the plants in the quake-hit region could result in less power generation.

The plant is just south of the worst-hit Miyagi prefecture, where a fire broke out at another nuclear plant. The blaze was in a turbine building at one of the Onagawa power plants; smoke could be seen coming out of the building, which is separate from the plant's reactor, Tohoku Electric Power Co. said. It has since been extinguished.

Another reactor at Onagawa was experiencing a water leak.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the 2:46 p.m. quake was a magnitude 8.9, the biggest earthquake to hit Japan since officials began keeping records in the late 1800s.

A tsunami warning was issued for a number of Pacific, Southeast Asian and Latin American nations.

At the two-reactor Diablo Canyon plant at Avila Beach, Calif., an "unusual event"—the lowest level of alert—was declared in connection with a West Coast tsunami warning. The plant remained stable, though, and kept running, according to the NRC.

:shake:

Once you've lost the ability to cool your plant it's a recipe for disaster.

If anything causes the process to accelerate (and it would naturally without cooling or venting measures) you're ****ed.

This would be so much worse than the bombings and would have global effects...

I guess it was Closer to Nagano

I'm not questioning you.

I just don't know how else to respond to so much.................suck.

I know. I was just correcting myself. Foxnews said Tokyo, initially.

88,000 people missing

As I said:

Powerful Quake Hits Japan's Nagano Prefecture<!--EH1-->
<!--SBT-->TOKYO (Kyodo)--A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 hit an inland area northwest of Tokyo early Saturday, measuring upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Nagano Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.


http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110311D11JF352.htm

Yeah, venting it is not good. Better than a melt, though.

Anyone hear if the tsunami made it to Australia? My sister lives in Townsville about 2 blocks from the beach. I sent her an email early this morning but haven't gotten a response. She also just bought a new yacht a couple of months ago. I think it is ancored outside of Sydney so maybe there is no problem with that. I'm assuming it didn't cause problems down there but I don't have TV here and am relying on CP for my news and info. Thanks in advance if anyone knows.

That aint good.

They just said 4 quakes in an hr. Mag. 6.1-6.7

I don't think that it took any damage.

http://i.imgur.com/BmmiJ.jpg

Looks like Japan is breathing fire upon the world.

Cool - thanks man. I figured New Guinea would block it but I don't know much about it.

I appreciate the feedback!

Heard the same on Fox News just a second ago.

Wow.

God help those people...

I'm guessing (hoping) that number is about as useful as when the woman said last night after more than an hour of this stuff that there was 1 confirmed death. With everyone evacuating in a difficult situation in which to communicate, I would expect a lot of people to go missing for a while.

Yeah. Pure speculation, I'd assume, at this point.

My brother lives in Tokyo I called him like 6 hrs ago and havn't got a return call sure hope he's ok.

Yeah, I'd like to do a little media study at some point to see how the reported numbers change over time in a major disaster. It seems like they always start small, mushroom quickly into a large number, and then drop back down as everything settles down. I think on 9/11 there were discussions of 50,000 people, and then it immediately dropped to around 10,000 and hung there for a while, and then fell from there to the final number over the next couple of weeks. My numbers may not be right, but that's how I remember it.

Phones are down. I just hear on Foxnews that all cellular networks are down.

Thanks BCD --trying not to worry.

Beautiful area of Australia. Some of my wife's "rellies" live there and at Balgal Beach (which is a little north). The wife and I hiked the Thorsborne Trail on Hinchinbrook Island together prior to getting married.

Yeah, that's what I hear. I've never made it over. Hope to someday.

More reports of damage coming from the Cali-Oregon coast. No link. Just repeating what is said on Foxnews.

Holy shit. This could be the biggest natural disaster ever. wow.

How many were killed in Indonesia? 200,000?

Well, yeah, but that wasn't an industrialized country so you have to apply the adjustment factor.

Bro not even close

Something like 2,000,000 died during floods in China in the early 1930s. But, you can keep your fingers crossed.

Hopefully you'll hear from him soon.

ROFL Ass.

Could a mod just rename him "Chicken Little" ?
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No, that was just badgirl uncrossing her legs.

:LOL: