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[dl316bh]

Hopefully they can get it contained; the last thing Japan needs right now is a meltdown.

[Derock]

Could things get much, much worse?

They definitely don't need a meltdown... This is getting scary.

[ciardha]

CNN posted a map that you can zoom in on with photos and videos of the earthquake damage. Looks like the only place near Tokyo that got significant earthquake damage was in Chiba- where the gas refinery caught on fire.

http://edition.cnn.c...apan.quake/map/

Kia Asamiya has heard from his publisher and he said they seem to think most manga companies will only have minimal publishing delays.

[Insurrection]

http://www.msnbc.msn...ws-asiapacific/

Fears of a second meltdown after three damaged reactors in the earthquake.

Also if you can take a look at the before and after aerial shots, man oh man.

Edited by Insurrection, 13 March 2011 - 06:09 AM.

[ciardha]

NHK reports magnitude of the earthquake has been revised again, it's now reported to have been an 9.0

http://www3.nhk.or.j...lish/13_21.html

[Codus N]

When I looked at the pictures, dang, I dunno which one was worse, Aceh or this. Japan's body count can't possibly compare to Aceh's but the materialistic damage is probably almost equal.

[Sakura Blossoms]

When I looked at the pictures, dang, I dunno which one was worse, Aceh or this. Japan's body count can't possibly compare to Aceh's but the materialistic damage is probably almost equal.

10,000 people feared dead is a very high and horrific body count

[Codus N]

^Compare that to ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND. That's 10x over.

[Davidos]

Apparantly now also a volcano errupted on the southwestern part of japan..... http://www.timeslive...-volcano-erupts
All those poor people

Edited by Davidos, 13 March 2011 - 02:33 PM.

[Sakura Blossoms]

^Compare that to ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND. That's 10x over.

Even 1 life lost by a family member is too many. You can't sit and compare how many deaths has more of an impact.

[Gravenimage]

I pray for the people of Japan this catastrophe is worst than the Haiti earthquake and Chile earthquake.

[Codus N]

Even 1 life lost by a family member is too many. You can't sit and compare how many deaths has more of an impact.

True, but I was just expressing my disbelief at the sheer impact of the disaster. And really, if I had to say, (in terms of death toll) Japan is faring better than we did. But on a whole, god, they've definitely got it bad (even worse). What with a Chernobyl possibly happening.......

[ciardha]

Even 1 life lost by a family member is too many. You can't sit and compare how many deaths has more of an impact.

Exactly. Please folks, resist the impulse to turn this into a "tragedy Olympics". Think about how we Americans felt about Hurricane Katrina.

The volcano erupting worries me, I hope it's a result of the Friday quake, not a warning sign the fault line there is going to go off.

On the slightly positive side for me, I discovered my address book with all my Japanese college friends addresses in it, except for the one who was from Sendai, I have her name in there but not her Sendai address. Unfortunately, even the ones I do have their addresses of, those addresses are around 15 years old. But it's a start, gives me something solid to go on.

[Cloud]

True, but I was just expressing my disbelief at the sheer impact of the disaster. And really, if I had to say, (in terms of death toll) Japan is faring better than we did. But on a whole, god, they've definitely got it bad (even worse). What with a Chernobyl possibly happening.......

Chernobyl was a disaster waiting to happen. I'm pretty sure the Japanese have better planning in case of nuclear plant failure.

[Strangelove]

Oh well, what's next?

Japan sinking to the bottom of the sea?

Edited by Strangelove, 13 March 2011 - 09:56 PM.

[ciardha]

Finally some good news from Japan, some people have been found alive in the tsunami zone. CNN showed a video from NHK of three elderly people who had been trapped in a car, and one that had been driving was interviewed. She looked very emotionally shook up but physically it looked like she was relatively unharmed. Thankfully the car she was in wasn't crushed, the back windshield was intact and the front just cracked not shattered. The passenger area of the car thankfully didn't get hit by heavy debris, but the front of the car was. The video showed her rescue from the car too, but not the other two people (but all were rescued alive.)

[Derock]

Finally some good news from Japan, some people have been found alive in the tsunami zone. CNN showed a video from NHK of three elderly people who had been trapped in a car, and one that had been driving was interviewed. She looked very emotionally shook up but physically it looked like she was relatively unharmed. Thankfully the car she was in wasn't crushed, the back windshield was intact and the front just cracked not shattered. The passenger area of the car thankfully didn't get hit by heavy debris, but the front of the car was. The video showed her rescue from the car too, but not the other two people (but all were rescued alive.)

That is some good news to hear that there are still survivors around the area. That lady, and the other two are indeed lucky.

[Strangelove]

The volcano erupting worries me, I hope it's a result of the Friday quake, not a warning sign the fault line there is going to go off.

Well Russia just had some volcanoes erupting as well. If you ask me, the Earth geology changes, and every year we have a significant dissaster. Last year Haiti, the years before it the Massive Tsunami, this year Japan, and heck 2011 is still young.

We also have to remember, this is very common for a planet, we just didn't noticed it a 100 or a thousand years ago, because humanity wasn't so interconnected. Just yesterday the Gulf of California had 2 earthquakes size 5.0 and above, and 8 hours ago an earthquake of 4.6.

If you don't like Earthquakes, move to Florida. No earthquakes there, just hurricanes and bad weather.


As for the power plants, Nuclear power is still pretty new to us. We feel safer burning fossil fuels, even when fossil fuels cause more environmental disasters every year than nuclear meltdowns.

Edited by Strangelove, 14 March 2011 - 12:42 AM.