Japanese earthquake / tsunami discussion

Solair

This is footage captured from TEPCO's own live camera feeds (on the web) on 14/06/2011 from midnight onwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sE6050Vhh0

Take a the building towards the back of the shot and play from 1:00 to about 1:08 (you will see a bright flash - possible explosion / fire?)

Then by about 2:12, it starts to release LOTS of vapour.

There is still a lot of very odd stuff going on at that plant...

geetar

just in on sky news. :eek:


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As always, any jokes or tasteless posts will result in a ban.

W.Shakes-Beer

Hopefully not as bad as the last.

JONJO THE MISER

Sweet Mother Have Mercy.

Daegerty

T'wasnt me.

kfallon

Those poor fookers, your heart goes out to them

Larianne

Ah shíte.

dlofnep

Relatively small compared to the last. Doubt it will have much damage

JONJO THE MISER

Breaking..... Japan issues tsunami warning.

Captain Chaos

dlofnep wrote: »

Relatively small compared to the last. Doubt it will have much damage

Depends how deep down it happened and if is was out in the coast or inland. Can't tell the damage by just the magnitude alone.

geetar

they just said it was a 6.8 followed by a 6.7...

heavyballs

dlofnep wrote: »

Relatively small compared to the last. Doubt it will have much damage

in actual fact it's not so much the magnitude as the area where it hits,historically some of the biggest killers have been average magnitude deep quakes hitting land but luckily this one is out at sea

Mike 1972

NHK (Japan TV) have carried a Tsunami warning and advised coastal residents to evacuate although they state the risk seems to be low at this point

Dean820

Poor Japan.

The_Kew_Tour

and we complain cause we dont get a bit of sunshine or we get rain.

up for anything

Oh ****!!!!

Irish Weather Online

BREAKING: Tsunami advisory in place for the Iwate prefecture in Japan following a strong earthquake. More to follow

johnny_ultimate

Alas, Earthquakes are going to be part of life in Japan and Christchurch for the forseeable future. Cursed faultlines under awesome places

mojopolo

Magnitude 6.7 and 5.7 km deep. Looks like it's a big one
http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

KeithM89_old

Threads Merged.

The_Kew_Tour

Jesus we dont realise how lucky we are in Ireland we really dont.

Taughts are with them.:(

gbee

And just to add to their misery, a tropical storm system currently lashing the Gulf Of Thailand dropping some 200mm of rain will progress northwards and hit Northern Japan's devastated area and is expected to be dumping some 150mm of rain with a chance that this system will organise into a typhoon!

Flooding expected.

Statistician

A new gunderson vid has just been released:
http://www.fairewinds.com/updates

Statistician

This nuclear power station is still belching out radiation into the environment.

Fukushima beef has now been banned.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14198789

marcsignal

Heard a disturbing programme on the world service about this last night. One scientist believes that the quake in March, because of its intensity, could just be the beginning of many more to come in the region. Scary stuff.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12711226

red menace

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/07/16/tectonic-plate-tension-increasing-for-the-potential-of-another-large-quake/

The list of moderate earthquakes shaking the globe include a 5.6 in Tonga, followed by a 5.1, and 5.0 in Kermadec, twin quakes in Baja, California and an earthquake swarm in the Virgin Islands. There was also a 5.3 off the eastern coast of Japan, a 5.9 in the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica, a 5.3 in Bolivia on the Nazca plate and a 5.4 earthquake in Vanuatu in the Pacific. I believe conditions exist for the possible outbreak of another large quake over the next 72 to 96 hours. People in high-risk seismic zones should remain alert for the possibility of quake events. (TheExtinctionProtocol)

This was posted last Friday, hopefully he is wrong

Cathaoirleach

Angry Fukushima residents wanting answers (19th July)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW3_N8fy8vw

gbee

Totally amazing video, "I don't think they have that right!"

Cathaoirleach

In this video nuclear engineers Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum walk, step-by-step, through the events of the Japanese meltdowns and consider how the knowledge gained from Fukushima applies to the nuclear industry worldwide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XaIukpfsL4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mG3FK9EKZQ

Coles

So what's happening with the Nuclear accident? It's not covered on the news any more... I assume it's all cleaned up now and there's nothing for the Japanese people to worry about?

Right?


RIGHT??

Coles

Coles wrote: »

So what's happening with the Nuclear accident? It's not covered on the news any more... I assume it's all cleaned up now and there's nothing for the Japanese people to worry about?

Right?


RIGHT??

Right. Nothing to see here. The government has it all under control, now move along.


:P