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Japanese earthquake / tsunami discussion

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    #1562
    Vodkat
    Registered Users Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Vodkat


    kevin12345 wrote: »
    Major aftershock just there, woman on CNN who is in Japan said it was way stronger than the 6.3 an hour ago.

    Via twitter apparently 7.9


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    #1563
    geetar
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭geetar


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    It could drive already rising oil & gas prices up even further as Japan needs to substitute its nuclear energy needs.


    oddly enough, ive heard that oil prices have infact dropped because oil tankers en route to japan have been forced to turn around, for obvious reasons. dont know how true this is though...


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    #1564
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,500 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    maquiladora wrote: »
    Cooling system failure is all I heard.

    They are getting ready for a controlled release of air, serious pressure build up.


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    #1565
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    Malty_T wrote: »
    Yeah it's just a word that reverberates well in media "meltdown".:(

    According to the Simpsons , there is always a massive explosion after meltdown


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    #1566
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,033 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    gman2k wrote: »
    NHK have reported that authorities have admitted that fuel has partially melted (I believe they are still talking about reactor no 1.
    This may not be new news, as it seems there is a lot of repetition going on in NHK

    Aye, caesium reported melted in reactor 1 about an hour and a half ago.


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    #1567
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    kevin12345 wrote: »
    Major aftershock just there, woman on CNN who is in Japan said it was way stronger than the 6.3 an hour ago.

    I hope it doesn't result in another tsunami. Hoping and praying


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    #1568
    geetar
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭geetar


    kevin12345 wrote: »
    Major aftershock just there, woman on CNN who is in Japan said it was way stronger than the 6.3 an hour ago.

    sorry but no she didnt. she said she was outside for this recent one and said it seemed not nearly as strong as the one an hour ago, but that she wasnt sure if that was because she wasnt inside a swaying building with things falling all over the place


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    #1569
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    They are getting ready for a controlled release of air, serious pressure build up.

    That didn't work with no 1, did it? I guess they don't have a lot of options.


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    #1570
    whitemocha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭whitemocha


    Vodkat wrote: »
    Via twitter apparently 7.9

    vodkat can you post the link to the twitter you are following please
    thanks


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    #1571
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    allthedoyles wrote: »
    According to the Simpsons , there is always a massive explosion after meltdown

    According to The Simpsons water in the southern Hemisphere rotates down a drain in the opposite direction to the northern hemisphere. :D


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    #1572
    geetar
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭geetar


    allthedoyles wrote: »
    According to the Simpsons , there is always a massive explosion after meltdown

    i dont think thats what happens, i think it takes a more literal sense, and melts down into the ground. i think if it reaches a water table... then its a different kettle of fish....


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    #1573
    Vodkat
    Registered Users Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Vodkat


    This might be a stupid question but im watching sky news and its showing footage of people being scanned for any radioactive material. I presume its the evacuated beings from around the plant, anyways what would happen to a person should radioactive substances be detected from them?


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    #1574
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Vodkat wrote: »
    Via twitter apparently 7.9

    Bloody hell, peoples nerves must be shattered.


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    #1575
    gman2k
    Registered Users Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    Talk of possible 7.0 aftershock just after happening in Sendai according to CNN and Twitter.
    Another Tsunami alert in place, but these alerts have been in place since Fri, but have been downgraded from time to time according to NHK


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    #1576
    shadowninty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭shadowninty


    ilovesleep wrote: »
    I hope it doesn't result in another tsunami. Hoping and praying

    8.8 is like 8-9 times more powerful than 7.9
    still it could worsen the large waves


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    #1577
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    kevin12345 wrote: »
    Major aftershock just there, woman on CNN who is in Japan said it was way stronger than the 6.3 an hour ago.

    There is a swarm of quakes at the moment. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/145_40.php


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    #1578
    Vodkat
    Registered Users Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Vodkat


    whitemocha wrote: »
    vodkat can you post the link to the twitter you are following please
    thanks

    Im on the results page on #prayforjapan reading the tweets and retweets it was a japanese woman that had posted it i translated from japenese to english


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    #1579
    sam007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭sam007


    what if the far east is wiped out by the end of the night? will we "lol"?


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    #1580
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,500 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    If there is another serious Tsunami threat they will most likely have to halt pumping seawater into the reactor chambers, the like of which occurred earlier this afternoon during a Tsunami alert.


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    #1581
    andrew
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    Vodkat wrote: »
    This might be a stupid question but im watching sky news and its showing footage of people being scanned for any radioactive material. I presume its the evacuated beings from around the plant, anyways what would happen to a person should radioactive substances be detected from them?

    The contamination comes in the form of Radioactive particles, so all that can be really done is to laboriously remove any radioactive particles from someone's body by changing their clothes and cleaning their body really well.


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    #1582
    whitemocha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭whitemocha


    what is wrong with some people on here :( i am just assuming they are teenagers acting the ass grow up for f88ks sake this is an unbelievable situation and not the time to pull the pi22:mad::mad:


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    #1583
    Vodkat
    Registered Users Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Vodkat


    Has the magnitude been confirmed yet?? Tsunami alert in place again, athough i didnt know it was lifted!
    Fingers crossed for everyone, Ive relations in south Korea and I dont think they have been affected.
    http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/massive_earthquake_hits_japan.html
    These photos made my eyes well up!


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    #1584
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    sam007 wrote: »
    what if the far east is wiped out by the end of the night? will we "lol"?

    Banned


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    #1585
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    All this extra shaking must be making things terrible for search and rescue efforts.


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    #1586
    AskMyChocolate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭AskMyChocolate


    david75 wrote: »
    Americans...and they wonder why they're hated across the world...

    http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/8409/1299923102166.jpg

    A singularly stupid and ignorant post. If Barack Obama, the senate, the congress or the U.S. Chiefs of Staff are on those images, then you may have a point. America was one of the first to react and offer coolant, aid and whatever qualified personnel they had to help, as they did with Christchurch. I would hope that America as a nation would not be judged by these ignorant fcuking idiots anymore than I would like Ireland to be judged by you, and I'm an anti-Washington, anti-Bush rabid "leftie".


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    #1587
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Vodkat wrote: »
    Has the magnitude been confirmed yet?? Tsunami alert in place again, athough i didnt know it was lifted!
    Fingers crossed for everyone, Ive relations in south Korea and I dont think they have been affected.
    http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/massive_earthquake_hits_japan.html
    These photos made my eyes well up!

    6.1 on usgs


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    #1588
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Malty_T wrote: »
    Yeah worse case scenario (assuming no core has already being exposed to air) is that sea bears the brunt of radioactive material.

    Even worse case scenario could be that an aftershock would cause a second tsunami, except this would now be a radioactive tsunami washing all the nuclear material back onto land...


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    #1589
    foxinsox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    Pompey Magnus wrote: »
    Even worse case scenario could be that an aftershock would cause a second tsunami, except this would now be a radioactive tsunami washing all the nuclear material back onto land...

    That is a very frightening scenario..

    all those poor people and it seems there is nothing really that anyone can do to help until Mother Nature has calmed down..


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    #1590
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    AskMyChocolate wrote: »
    A singularly stupid and ignorant post. If Barack Obama, the senate, the congress or the U.S. Chiefs of Staff are on those images, then you may have a point. America was one of the first to react and offer coolant, aid and whatever qualified personnel they had to help, as they did with Christchurch. I would hope that America as a nation would not be judged by these ignorant fcuking idiots anymore than I would like Ireland to be judged by you, and I'm an anti-Washington, anti-Bush rabid "leftie".

    If that facebook collective image is legit.
    thats fu*king disgraceful of the americans. Granted, only certain american people. Doesnt repersent tham all. But its terrible. down right terrible. That those stupid ignorant bas*rds remembing pearl harbor!!!

    thats like if the english had a natural diaster and we say "oh well we were under their rule" ... terrible!


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    #1591
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,089 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Banned
    I thought Frada was back for a second :(


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