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Japanese earthquake
on: March 11, 2011, 09:35:54 AM
there has been a huge earthquake and tsunami in Japan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12710999

I hope skidzilla is ok!
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Re: Japanese earthquake
Reply #1 on: March 11, 2011, 10:06:05 AM
Thankfully they are well prepared for these things, but even so I hope he's not been unlucky. It seems a lot of the low lying farmland is going to have been ruined.
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Re: Japanese earthquake
Reply #2 on: March 11, 2011, 11:58:45 AM
Quote from: Mongoose on March 11, 2011, 09:35:54 AM
I hope skidzilla is ok!

Me too, it's really ripped up some shiat  :gag:
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Reply #3 on: March 11, 2011, 12:22:48 PM
Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on March 11, 2011, 10:06:05 AM
Thankfully they are well prepared for these things, but even so I hope he's not been unlucky. It seems a lot of the low lying farmland is going to have been ruined.

They are indeed prepared, but just looking on BBC News 24, there's some stuff you just can't prepare for this is an 8.9 with 7.1 after shocks, some of the coastal areas are just getting swamped by the looks of it, not to mention the fires in land.
 
I too hope he is ok!
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Re: Japanese earthquake
Reply #4 on: March 11, 2011, 12:47:47 PM
hopefully chip prices wont rocket like they did 15 years when Kobe was hit. £100 for 1mb  :gag:
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Reply #5 on: March 11, 2011, 12:59:41 PM
Coolings failed on one of the nuclear reactors, uh oh  :worried:
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Re: Japanese earthquake
Reply #6 on: March 11, 2011, 14:09:36 PM
Apparently the fire at the reactor has been put out, but they are still on emergency status.
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Reply #7 on: March 11, 2011, 15:25:36 PM
Quote from: matt5cott on March 11, 2011, 12:59:41 PM
Coolings failed on one of the nuclear reactors, uh oh  :worried:

maybe some lizard will get infected & grow 200 foot high & go on an angry rampage.
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Re: Japanese earthquake
Reply #8 on: March 11, 2011, 17:03:45 PM
Quote from: Eggtastico on March 11, 2011, 15:25:36 PM
maybe some lizard will get infected & grow 200 foot high & go on an angry rampage.
:evil:

Hope Skidzilla et al. are ok.
It's the massive whirlpool that appeared that really surprised me, I've never seen anything like that before.

It does go to show how good planning and design can help limit damage though. Considering the magnitude of this quake and it's after shocks compared to the NZ one, the actual damage to buildings looks so much less extensive.
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Reply #9 on: March 11, 2011, 18:05:17 PM
the NZ one was very shallow and close to the city though, whereas this one was offshore. I don't know how deep it was though.

That whirlpool certainly is impressive.

I seem to remember learning in school many many years ago that the Japanese build their buildings using special techniques to make them withstand earthquakes as well as possible.
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Reply #10 on: March 11, 2011, 18:24:02 PM
Quote from: Eggtastico on March 11, 2011, 12:47:47 PM
hopefully chip prices wont rocket like they did 15 years when Kobe was hit. £100 for 1mb  :gag:

I remember that, I had serious geek bragging rights when I upgraded my 486 to 4mb Ram.

Good luck skidz.
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Re: Japanese earthquake
Reply #11 on: March 11, 2011, 19:49:47 PM
The footage is grotesquely compelling. It's unusual to see such an epic catastrophe documented so well by so many normal people.

I had a few tense moments until I heard from some good friends who are over there at the moment but thankfully they all seem to be okay.
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Reply #12 on: March 11, 2011, 19:53:38 PM
Just spoke to a Japanese bloke to ask him about the Tsunami news... He was more interested in his Friday night, kept shouting about some massive rave
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Re: Japanese earthquake
Reply #13 on: March 11, 2011, 20:50:26 PM
Their cities are built to shake and they are used to it so they are ok. It is the land with the wave of water that has just tashed everything in its past, farmland, homes, cars, boats and people - whooped into a pile of mush :(

We are just getting 1M waves around the shore and will do for a few hours. We been told not to go near the beaches today.
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Reply #14 on: March 11, 2011, 21:43:58 PM
2139: Radiation levels at the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant are continuing to rise. The Jiji Press news agency says the levels are eight times above normal. Its report also cites a ministry official as saying there is a "possibility of a radioactive leak".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
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