EPTCrisis in Japan - Page 37
| Forum Index > General Forum |
Thread is about the various issues surrounding Japan in the aftermath of the recent earthquake. Don't bring the shit side of the internet to the thread, and post with the realization that this thread is very important, and very real, to your fellow members. Do not post speculative and unconfirmed news you saw on TV or anywhere else. Generally the more dramatic it sounds the less likely it's true. | ||
|
Macabre
United States1262 Posts
| ||
|
NeV
Italy370 Posts
 | ||
|
QuanticHawk
United States32157 Posts
On March 11 2011 22:07 Macabre wrote: I fear this will be like Haiti, the death toll will sky rocket when the damage becomes visible.. Japan's infrastructure has been prepared for stuff like this for decades. It's still a mess but it will be much much better off than Haiti | ||
|
Galtakar
Sweden374 Posts
On March 11 2011 22:37 NeV wrote: they have just found 300 corps on a beach, I can't give a source, I've just heard it on tv. Yeah. The coastline of Sendai. Seems it is rapidly increasing... Was above 400 just a minute ago. Sendai might have been hit hardest by this. | ||
|
wishbones
Canada2600 Posts
| ||
|
drew-chan
Malaysia1517 Posts
Pictures are worth a thousand words. | ||
|
Marcus420
Canada1923 Posts
| ||
|
TimeOut
Germany1277 Posts
Pretty interesting and he confirms that there is no immediate danger to the surroundings and that there are no radiation leaks. Edit / Update: Woah, on the live stream from Hawaii you could see the water receding so far that the reefs are visible. | ||
|
Arnstein
Norway3381 Posts
| ||
|
Macabre
United States1262 Posts
| ||
|
ELA
Denmark4608 Posts
| ||
|
awha
Denmark1358 Posts
On March 11 2011 22:46 TimeOut wrote: Someone from the World Nuclear Association now explaining the situation about the nuclear power plants in Japan on AJE. Pretty interesting and he confirms that there is no immediate danger to the surroundings and that there are no radiation leaks. Edit / Update: Woah, on the live stream from Hawaii you could see the water receding so far that the reefs are visible. sorry I have missed it, but which live stream do you speak of? Im watching al-jazeera | ||
|
WhiteDog
France8650 Posts
On March 11 2011 20:45 eviltomahawk wrote: It's not the water that makes a tsunami dangerous. It's the debris that it picks up that makes the tsunami a literal bulldozer. The more the tsunami moves inland, the more shit it picks up like parts of homes, cars, people, trees, and other stuff. Once it gets far enough inland, stuff just instantly dies to this wall of debris, and that stuff becomes part of the debris that killed it. There were pics of this video that were posted, but here it is in its entirety: As you can see, getting hit by the wave doesn't only mean getting hit by water. It also means getting shredded apart by the stuff in the wave. The wave is quite scary looking, almost hypnotic. I've seen water behave like this on a small scale with blades of grass, so it's mind-blowing to see it behave like this on a large scale with pieces of trees, homes, and other large debris. On your video you can see some cars trying to flee from the wave and eventually getting cornered by it... It's so strange knowing there was a real men in these cars, I hope they are alright. | ||
|
Hypnotikdel
United States333 Posts
| ||
|
TimeOut
Germany1277 Posts
On March 11 2011 22:49 awha wrote: sorry I have missed it, but which live stream do you speak of? Im watching al-jazeera This one works for Hawaii: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904&nav=menu55_1_1 | ||
|
randommuch
United States370 Posts
On March 11 2011 22:46 Marcus420 wrote: hawaii should prepare for the worst. On the live feed, the reported said that the northern coast of the U.S.. like Alaska and such should prepare more then Hawaii. idk how that makes sense but just an fyi. | ||
|
Rannasha
Netherlands2398 Posts
On March 11 2011 22:50 Hypnotikdel wrote: NBC just reported that Hawii and Cali have been cleared from tsunami threat. BBC news now has someone from Hawaii on their live show and he's saying that the tsunami warning has not been downgraded yet. The water has receded for hundred meters or more according to his report, which generally precedes a large wave coming in. | ||
|
Garnet
Vietnam9050 Posts
| ||
|
GG_NO_RE
Japan238 Posts
On March 11 2011 22:30 don_kyuhote wrote: Hopefully people who are stranded find a warm place to stay the night. It's still pretty darn cold in Japan... this is true. it's pretty cold in japan, even in the south right now (except like okinawa). i can't imagine what it's like up in hokkaido and the north. of course places like canada and elsewhere are colder, but insulation in japanese houses really sucks and there isn't too great a difference between outside and inside sometimes (vs. canada, america, korea, etc). On March 11 2011 22:35 don_kyuhote wrote: I doubt it will as bad as Haiti. Someone said it before, but Japanese buildings are way more durable and earthquake-ready than those of poor-stricken Haitian buildings. while they indeed are more durable, they aren't top-notch by any standards. japanese houses are built pretty cheaply in anticipation of natural disasters (hence the shitty insulation). 'earthquake-ready' is more like 'if this house gets destroyed, it won't be that bad of a financial loss.' i'm not implying that the japanese are cold people, but that this is just part of living here. in general, everyone here in japan is talking about the tsunami and was watching the NHK when coverage started. people stopped what they were doing everywhere and started calling and phone emailing (japanese people don't really 'text'.. or rather, 'texting' would refer to phone emailing) everyone they knew in possibly affected areas. it sounds like sendai got the worst of it. i know some people around that area and haven't heard from them yet. kinda shitty. and not all cell phone providers are down, and it greatly depends on your area. unaffected areas, for example, are working fine. | ||
|
Benjef
United Kingdom6921 Posts
That sucks so much ."A passenger train is unaccounted for in a tsunami-hit coastal area of Japan, the AFP quotes a report on the Kyodo news agency." "Japanese authorities are urging some 2,000 residents living within a 2km radius of a nuclear plant in Fukushima to evacuate, the AFP reports. The plant has been shut down after its cooling system failed." "There has also been a major explosion at a petrochemical complex in Sendai, according to the Kyodo news agency." From BBC live updates. Apperently 2 meter waves are starting to hit the Hawaiian island chains. | ||
| ||
