Japan just got hit with a 7.9 earthquake

Basically, theyre saying that that's what the Japanese deserve for Pearl Harbour and "if you think this is bad, google 'Pearl Harbour death toll'"
It's fucking pathetic and it's downright embarrassing...
 
That pearl harbour talk is disgusting. So ignorant, so hateful. These are real people suffering right now, and some people use a wartime event 70 years ago as justification for not caring... Can someone please post something to restore faith in the US, or even the world?
And what does that nuclear fallout graph mean for the west coast? BC, WA, OR, and CA are all looking fucked. But how bad is that lowest level?
 
No idea why they are using RAD, as that's kinda obsolete...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rad_(unit)
However, if they mean RONTGENs... then that's pretty gnar... and I dont know how they would base that off of...
basically, 500 rontgens exposure over 5 hours = lethal.
If they mean rontgens, and 750's about to hit us on the west coast? and theyre shit's legit? then we are indeed ultrafucked...
that said, I dont believe that chart is correct lol.
 
Me too... that is unless it mutates me into Wolverine. Then it's cool.

I really dont think that chart is right in any way though... lol.
 
This, even though I'm on the east coast. but still, I hope to god we don't get blasted with nuclear fallout
 
"At around 8,000 times more powerful than the one which devastated Christchurch in New Zealand last month, the earthquake was one of the largest ever recorded."
 
More.

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And yeah, I think that fallout picture is quite exaggerated. Finland is 700 miles from Chernobyl, it was almost completely unshielded and we were in the worst fallout cloud, yet only got 800 RAD max.
 
Well... If karma is a bitch then soon something similar will happen to america.... But why do i even care what those dumbfucks think
 
Yeah... but Finland just had fallout brought by prevailing winds.
I'm assuming shit would be a lot more gnarcore if this is really a chernobyl-like category 7 'holy fucking shit' situation, and that radiation was carried accross in a very powerful jetstream that normally chills out over japan.. (they were able to take bombs, tie them to ballons, and release them from japan, and these bombs would drop over Oregon during WW2... they had hoped to start forest fires)
The Jet stream could bring a lot more radiation over here before it's able to all fall out, that said... I'm not going to be worried until I have downright huge cause to be.
 
It would be just as ignorant to assume that this kinda shit = america. There are a lot of dumb people here who have easy access to twitter, and a voice... To hate america as a whole for these kinda things would be just as ignorant as these americans writing such bullshit.
 
Fuck me video of the explosion happening.

Also those Pearl Harbour people make me physically sick, the staggering levels of ignorance and stupidity...
 
Also:

Speaking before the blast, Naoto Sekimura, a professor at the University of Tokyo, told the Associated Press a major radioactive disaster was unlikely.

"No Chernobyl is possible at a light water reactor. Loss of coolant means a temperature rise, but it also will stop the reaction," he said.

"Even in the worst-case scenario, that would mean some radioactive leakage and equipment damage, but not an explosion. If venting is done carefully, there will be little leakage. Certainly not beyond the 3km radius."

But that was before the blast, hopefully this still holds ^
 
I saw this comment under a video of the Tsunami with a bunch of thumbs up. It's a weird coincidence.

USA lost many lives on 9-11-01

Now, Japan has lost more lives on 3-10-11

Add the 2 dates together and you'll get 12-21-12

something to keep in mind...

 
Don't want to sound stupid here..but, didn't the earthquake hit on the 11th? Not the 10th?
 
Yeah thats crazy. Check this out too:

The U.S. lost many lives to Katrina which was formed on 8-23-05

Haiti lost many lives to an earthquake on 1-12-10

Add the two dates together and you get 9-35-15
 
you guys are taking the nuclear explosion a little out of hand. read the thread on the nuclear power plant and it will clear some of the things up for you. Yes radiation was leaked but not in the levels you think.

But yes that explosion was crazy big. Those containment buildings are 4 feet thick with concrete and steel rebar.
 
yeah everyone just goes nuts when they hear this stuff.
and of course the explosion was going to be big, it'd have to be to blow through that much reinforced concrete. while that place is meant to keep stuff in, it takes an incredible amount of pressure to blow that up which would obviously make a huge explosion. anything that airtight and thick facilitates a huge pressure explosion should there be one.
 
dunno if this is posted, and what i think about it being on cnn, but anyways i just found this on fb

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html?hpt=T1

(CNN) -- The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis.

"At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (8 feet), and we have seen a map from GSI (Geospatial Information Authority) in Japan showing the pattern of shift over a large area is consistent with about that much shift of the land mass," said Kenneth Hudnut, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Reports from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy estimated the 8.9-magnitude quake shifted the planet on its axis by nearly 4 inches (10 centimeters).

The temblor, which struck Friday afternoon near the east coast of Japan, killed hundreds of people, caused the formation of 30-foot walls of water that swept across rice fields, engulfed entire towns, dragged houses onto highways, and tossed cars and boats like toys. Some waves reached six miles (10 kilometers) inland in Miyagi Prefecture on Japan's east coast.

 
They had one or two hit in south west oregon and they did start small fires. I feel like it came form a sub though, i don't remember. I saw the site randomly on a topo map when i was car camping with a buddy , true story. Shit, im 1 hour from the ocean in Ca, i think i need to go shopping.
 
you know what's special, i'm making a joke, and you're still unable to properly spell you're in an insult. i think that makes me a little higher above you on the food chain.
 
Don't worry kids, i believe this is supposed to be if there is actual nuclear meltdown... as in the entire core melting and what not.
At the moment the current radiation in the immediate area is 128 mrems per hour which is the equivalent of smoking about 17 cigarettes per hour. This is in the immediate area. The radiation that is being leaked right now doesnt stay radioactive long and turns to no radio active particles.
The people who were exposed initially while waiting were unfortunately exposed to the initial gust of radiation before it had began turning into its non radioactive state.
According to pretty much all the research out there, it will only be days for the surrounding area to go back to normal and they expect the people to be able to go back to their homes sooner than later.
A full dental x-ray causes up to 5000 mrems.... they are being exposed to 128 mrems per hours. So a bit over a day and a half is = to getting a dental x-ray.
As far as people testing positive to radiation... apparently eating a few bananas can do this....
as far as being 1000x above normal, this is because living next to the boundary exposes you to less than an additional 5mrems per year.

Read the radiation stats from here... its pretty interestinghttp://www.physics.sfsu.edu/~bland/courses/490/labs/b1/b1.html
 
its not uncommon for one natural disaster to trigger another (and especially for an earthquake to trigger a volcano)
 
I was reading a few articles and it seems like the volcano is usually active. Almost all of them said it had only been dormant for a couple weeks. Media adding to the shock factor the way I see it.
 
Just saw a story about some guy who got found like 10 miles out to sea floating on his roof. Crazy.
 
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