Japan just got hit with a 7.9 earthquake

Holy shit, not good at all. A nuclear power plant in the northern part of the country is having trouble cooling its reactors too.
I was looking to volunteer this summer somewhere, looks like it may be Japan! Ive always wanted to go!
 
Vibes to all the affected people.
If anybody has friends or family in Osaka my friend there told me Osaka has done pretty good.
 
yeah I saw that. sounds like they have quite the issue over there. plus with all the flooding I hope they don't contaminate everything.
 
Dude....watching video of it.....a whole town just got swallowed up.
Mother Nature.....she's no bitch to fuck with.
 
I just saw a video of the tsunami and it was so surreal looking... the wave didn't even look like water because the mass of cars and things it was picking up...

It sucks so much...
 
heard about this, this morning. fucking insane.

considering the earthquake that hit San Fran in 1906 was only 7.9 and destroyed the city this one is 8.9 and will be completely devistating.

if anything happens to the nuclear reactors, shit could hit the fucking fan
 
tsunami waves battered hawaii all through the night last night, hope they are ok too.

Hopefully the nuclear power plant doesn't melt down...
 
Holy shit. This is insane! My friend on the cost of wa said people were packing up and evacuating! I wanna go help! ...I just read Hiroshima and then this, they get te worst luck!
 
This. My roommate drove out to the Oregon Coast early this morning...
If I was at all a decent surfer i'd have joined, but then again I also had a final exam haha.
 
Cnn just reported that the Plant was having troubles with its cooling systems but it is now expected to go back to a stable condition.
 
I read that book....and all the destruction...and it was just kinda a coincidence of readin it and then something happening there....it made it more real...and it seemed that aweful stuff happens to them.
 
Yeah. that's what I told my roomie at first, but his opinion is that when the tsunami has to travel 12000 miles to get to Oregon, by the time they get here theyre just surges you can take off the point breaks and what not. Theyre just a lot bigger.

 
I just read Hiroshima, the book, and it just made it more real. It was like a coincidence, well not really, but even though that was ages ago, they get some aweful stuff.
 
Fuck i hate my iPod. So the two aren't related but the discussions we had about the book connected the book and te earthquake together....yea.
 
I'm dont believe hiroshima received much damage from the earthquake considering they aren't anywhere close to where it struck...

and the city being devastated by an atomic bomb was due to the their inept leadership that was not intelligent enough to realize when they had been defeated by a superior country

soo...whaaaaat?
 
^^ughhh please don't turn this thread into a moral discussion of dropping the a-bomb..this thread is about the devastating earthquake that rocked northern japan no need to side track it...

i was simply trying to say that hiroshima a.) didnt get hit hard by this earthquake (realitvely) and b.) a-bomb dropping has nothign to do with this random act of mother nature
 
Good point. But it doesn't matter where it was. It just let me put a bit of a "face" of what is kinda happening. Like something turned the country upside-down again. Even if it is ages later, and could happen anywhere. It was the first time I'd read of something that catastrophic happening...and though they are totally different, houses are ruined again, peoples lives uprooted, all in a matter of minutes.
 
false.

Japan surrendered on sept 2, 1945. The first bomb was dropped august 6.

Formally speaking, hostilities didn't actually end until 1952.

Best wishes, japan. Good luck getting through it.
 
you should calm down.

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Good one WackaShocka
U.S. Breathes Sigh of Relief As Tsunami Soaks West Coast But Causes Little DamageMassive 8.9 Earthquake Triggers Tsunami from Japan to Oregon
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18 COMMENTSBY RUSSELL GOLDMAN AND LYNEKA LITTLE [/b]
March 11, 2011PrintRSSFONT SIZE:SHARE:FacebookMorePeople along the coasts of Hawaii and the West Coast held their breath as a tsunami raced across the Pacific at 500 mph threatening to strike with waves as high as 9 feet high, but what arrived did little more than soak the beaches and cause traffic jams.MORE VIDEO WATCH: On-Ground Account of Hawaii TsunamiWATCH: Hawaiian Tourist Waits for TsunamiWATCH: Hawaii Wakes Up to Tsunami WarningThey breathed a sigh of relief as the tsunami turned out to do little more than delight surfers along the California coast and irritate thousands who rushed to higher ground.Nevertheless, President Obama said in a news conference that Washington was "taking this very seriously," and urged people, "if you are told to evacuate, do as you are told."The president said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was "fully activated."The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that rattled Japan today triggered a tsunami that sped across the Pacific Ocean at a velocity that matched that of a commercial jetliner.Tsunami warning sirens went off from Hawaii to Alaska and Oregon. Evacuations jammed roads and prompted fistfights at gas stations, and the federal government prepared to deploy emergency relief teams."Disaster in the Pacific": Watch "World News" at 6:30 p.m. ET, a special edition of "20/20" at 10 p.m. ET and "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. ET for special coverage of the Pacific earthquake and tsunami. CLICK HERE for more.[/b]In the end, the tsunami drenches the coastlines, but caused little damage.Officials did not regret their warnings and calls for evacuations."We called this right. This evacuation was necessary," said geophysicist Gerard Fryer in Hawaii. "There's absolutely no question, this was the right thing to do."The tsunami has claimed hundreds of lives in Japan, and with the devastation of the 2004 tsunami still fresh when 230,000 people died, officials were not taking chances.The tsunami reached Hawaii around 3:30 a.m. local time. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says Kauai was the first island hit early by the wave, which quickly swept through the Hawaiian Island chain. There were no immediate reports of serious damage.According to the U.S. Geological Survey the first wave to hit was not as large as experts anticipated, but bigger ones were expected to follow.Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie ordered the evacuation of coastal areas. Through the night, residents waited on lines to buy gas, bottled water, canned food and generators.At least tens of thousands of people were evacuated and there were reports of fighting at gas stations as people fuel up their cars to move inland in Hawaii.1 | 2[/list]NEXT >
 
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"This just in here at CNN, apparently godzilla is fighting the tsunami in a interesting turn of events here as he has chosen to protect the people he will eventually massacre."

jokes aside, this is a terrible tragedy, my thoughts go out to anyone related to it.
 
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