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Japanese earthquake / tsunami discussion

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    #512
    mgmt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭mgmt


    Watch this its hitting

    http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/179959/33/Tsunami-barrels-toward-Hawaii-US-western-coast-LIVE


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    #513
    Mister men
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭Mister men


    Here it comes for Hawaii. Some idiots walking around the shoreline. Twits.


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    #514
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    There has also been a major explosion at a petrochemical complex in Sendai, according to the Kyodo news agency.

    crap


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    #515
    Shulgin
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Shulgin


    http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/179959/33/Tsunami-barrels-toward-Hawaii-US-western-coast-LIVE


    Yeah, people still right by the water :eek:


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    #516
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    Waves/Tide have gone out in Hawaii ..gone quiet .

    The big Tsunami trap !


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    #517
    Brenireland
    Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Brenireland


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    opera has just been turned on the tv in work for lunchtime as usual :rolleyes:

    haha,well it was a petrochemical station that went bang,big one to I'm hearing.


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    #518
    MoyVilla9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭MoyVilla9


    Hogzy wrote: »
    200-300 bodies just found along the northeastern coast of Japan :(

    Christ. No mention of it on CNN just yet. They're showing pictures of Hawaii, nothing major happening. I cannot see it being hit too hard to be honest.


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    #519
    ollie1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭ollie1


    On the live feed Hawaii on cnn there is a guy on beach waving at the camera wtf :eek:


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    #520
    county man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭county man


    A passenger train is unaccounted for now.


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    #521
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    ollie1 wrote: »
    On the live feed Hawaii on cnn there is a guy on beach waving at the camera wtf :eek:

    He must be irish :cool:


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    #522
    gman2k
    Registered Users Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    Overheal wrote: »
    Also when you say runaway reaction, you mean a nuclear detonation? No. a Meltdown may occur. The runaway reaction, certainly not.
    ]

    No, I never meant a runaway, or a detonation.
    Meltdown is due to a runaway reaction due to a failure in the cooling, (or failure in mechanical systems with withdrawing control rods) which in the case of Chernobyl resulted in a reactor fire blowing the roof off the building and spewing radioactive material.

    Anyway, reports coming from Japan state that:
    BREAKING NEWS: 1 reactor at nuclear power plant cannot be cooled down: Edano (22:06)
    BREAKING NEWS: Defense force team ordered to fly to Fukushima nuclear plant (22:40)
    - from http://english.kyodonews.jp/


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    #523
    Mister men
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭Mister men


    snubbleste wrote: »
    He must be irish :cool:
    Bertie on holiday? Please let it be true.


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    #524
    digme
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    Mister men wrote: »
    Here it comes for Hawaii. Some idiots walking around the shoreline. Twits.
    wow a 2 foot wave....................


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    #525
    Ganymede Glow
    Registered Users Posts: 833 ✭✭✭Ganymede Glow


    gman2k wrote: »
    No, I never meant a runaway, or a detonation.
    Meltdown is due to a runaway reaction due to a failure in the cooling, (or failure in mechanical systems with withdrawing control rods) which in the case of Chernobyl resulted in a reactor fire blowing the roof off the building and spewing radioactive material.

    Anyway, reports coming from Japan state that:
    BREAKING NEWS: 1 reactor at nuclear power plant cannot be cooled down: Edano (22:06)
    BREAKING NEWS: Defense force team ordered to fly to Fukushima nuclear plant (22:40)
    - from http://english.kyodonews.jp/


    Homer Simpson must have turned up for work this morning


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    #526
    drdeadlift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭drdeadlift


    Volcano errupts in indonesia?


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    #527
    mgmt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭mgmt


    bike man is back


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    #528
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,506 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Brenireland wrote: »
    haha,well it was a petrochemical station that went bang,big one to I'm hearing.

    If it's oil / petrol then that's "not too bad" at least, if it's chemical who knows what sorts of product could get released into the local area / air.

    I'm not for a second saying its not bad but hopefully its only oil


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    #529
    bohsboy
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    Hawaii beach gone completely dry. Move you people.....! Quickly!


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    #530
    Mister men
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭Mister men


    digme wrote: »
    wow a 2 foot wave....................
    It won't be 2 feet when the main wave hits.


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    #531
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream4&hpt=T1

    Watching this, the water receded a hundred or so metres and is going to surge back any second.


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    #532
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,014 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Malty_T wrote: »
    Nuclear is kinda of that thing that people get all flexed up and fearful of but sometimes that fear is complete irrational. :) People within the radius of the plant are being evacuated as a precautionary measure. There isn't going to be huge chain reaction affecting all the nuclear plants. If there's gonna be anything then there's gonna be one reactor meltdown. Though it must be stressed barring some extreme misfortune this won't happen.:)
    People are scared of Nuclear Power because we learn about Nuclear Weapons as part of history, but no effort is really made to understand what we do to really harness the atom. Its already a standard of most good physics courses to understand the basic principles. It's also an important thing to understand briefly when you are wondering about Iran, what Enrichment is, etc. and of course, why not every country with a pocket full of uranium has successfully built a bomb - because it hard to get the **** to blow up, and to blow up big.

    It's also worth noting there have been several meltdowns not including Chernobyl. Many of them, including Three Mile Island, resulted in no casualties. If they can't get the core temperature down under stable the reactor's shielding will do a lot of the work in minimizing the damage.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor_technology


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    #533
    Poor Craythur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭Poor Craythur


    I always feel strangely detached from natural disasters, I don't know why.


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    #534
    digme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭digme


    Mister men wrote: »
    It won't be 2 feet when the main wave hits.
    ya because the island between japan and there it was only 2 foot so i suppose maybe 6 inches


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    #535
    Mister men
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭Mister men


    Jesus the sea has completey receded from the coastline. Does'nt that happen just before the big wave hits?


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    #536
    Little Acorn
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    mgmt wrote: »
    Watch this its hitting

    http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/179959/33/Tsunami-barrels-toward-Hawaii-US-western-coast-LIVE

    They just said that all the water is receding leaving all the reef exposed. Isn't that what happened in the other tsunami, before the giant waves started coming?


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    #537
    jonbravo
    Registered Users Posts: 635 ✭✭✭jonbravo


    bohsboy wrote: »
    Hawaii beach gone completely dry. Move you people.....! Quickly!

    it'll rap around hawaii maybe hit a few times


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    #538
    javagal
    Registered Users Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭javagal


    Guy is like "oh I'm ten feet from the shore,the sea has receeded about 40ft"...

    Ehhh...MOVE


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    #539
    [Deleted User]
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    drdeadlift wrote: »
    Volcano errupts in indonesia?
    Yea no big deal though.


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    #540
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,014 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Little Acorn wrote: »
    They just said that all the water is receding leaving all the reef exposed. Isn't that what happened in the other tsunami, before the giant waves started coming?
    Yep. It's coming.


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    #541
    SeaFields
    Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Thats what happened in the last big tsunami. The sea all but disappeared before coming back in a wall of water.


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