EPTWith that being said the damage looks like it'll take years to rebuild, and my heart goes out to the victims of this tragedy.
Crisis in Japan - Page 90
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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. | ||
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Gcubed
United States131 Posts
With that being said the damage looks like it'll take years to rebuild, and my heart goes out to the victims of this tragedy. | ||
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Dimagus
United States1004 Posts
Trouble is, the US media reads the report and thinks "oh this must be new!" and then mixes it in with actual up-to-date items and no one one can tell. That's why going straight to NHK and Japanese sources is so much better than relying on an extra link in the data chain, especially when that extra link is failing so bad. Sorry, Fox/CNN/etc you're not the point men on this one. | ||
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Zidane
United States1689 Posts
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dump
Japan514 Posts
He runs a hospital in Miyagi when he's not overseas doing humanitarian work in insane places like Gaza and Cambodia or traveling around Japan raising awareness of those places. That "lake" in the second picture is 3 minutes away from his workplace. And that's not a lake, it's a mass grave. That wasn't there before. Fortunately, being a doctor, there's a lot he can do for his community. He's calling out for nurses though, because they're not coming to work -- hopefully only because they're in shelters. Oh god this is so bad. | ||
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NuKedUFirst
Canada3139 Posts
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Vaeila
Netherlands336 Posts
Source: http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00195004.html edit: deathcount per "state" ![[image loading]](http://www.fnn-news.com/news/jpg/wu2011031317_50.jpg) | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
Really annoying how they don't report properly. T_T I guess it sells well. | ||
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RoosterSamurai
Japan2108 Posts
On March 13 2011 11:38 Shikyo wrote: Oh my god finnish news : "The worst scenario happened: Nuclear Power Plant exploded" Really annoying how they don't report properly. T_T I guess it sells well. I'm hoping you mean the old news of the explosion at the plant, and not the explosion of the plant itself.... | ||
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Zidane
United States1689 Posts
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
On March 13 2011 11:44 RoosterSamurai wrote: I'm hoping you mean the old news of the explosion at the plant, and not the explosion of the plant itself.... Yeah it's the old news, Finnish news is super late from everything | ||
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zeross
France310 Posts
a least some people give good informations | ||
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
On March 13 2011 11:44 RoosterSamurai wrote: I'm hoping you mean the old news of the explosion at the plant, and not the explosion of the plant itself.... theres a ton of different kind of news here. For example pretty much every german news is posting stuff like "End of the world" or doing an analysis of how much this will affect people in the us or if the whole thing is going to blow like a nuklear bomb and what will happen if it does. It's really sad that those people just use this to sell their shit or get hits. Especially when they sell their stuff to people who get more scared than they should just because they don't have a clue about what all that's happening could lead to and to what it could NOT lead to... | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
On March 13 2011 11:44 Zidane wrote: A lot of the news agencies really do sound like they want a meltdown to happen. I get a sick feeling in my stomach even thinking about that ocurring. Bad news sells and nothing scares dumb people more than anything with the word nuclear. They don't let the fact that only 50 people died in Chernobyl and maybe an estimated 4000 tops from radiation exposure stop them. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Dr. Daniel McNamara, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, told The Huffington Post that the disaster left a gigantic rupture in the sea floor, 217-miles long and 50 miles wide. It also shifted Japan's coast by eight feet in some parts, though McNamara was quick to explain much of the coast likely didn't move as far. McNamara found the way in which the quake actually sunk the elevation of the country's terrain to be more troublesome than coastal shifting. "You see cities still underwater; the reason is subsidence," he said. "The land actually dropped, so when the tsunami came in, it's just staying." In the aftermath of the largest earthquake in Japan's history, scientists have scrambled to gather concrete data to quantify such a powerful tremor's effect on the Earth. But the numbers don't always add up. For example, McNamara pointed out that reports claiming the sea floor's rift measured 93 miles wide are incorrect. Additionally, conflicting reports over whether and how far the enormous tremor shifted the Earth's axis have been circulating. Source | ||
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Draconicfire
Canada2562 Posts
Also, for those that might know a bit more about this stuff, when I was talking to my sisters about the earthquake, one of the things that popped up was whether or not something like this would potentially lead to something else happening, such as Mt. Fuji going off or something. Japan as an area is pretty volatile, and I'm actually not quite sure. | ||
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fanta[Rn]
Japan2465 Posts
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emc
United States3088 Posts
also the tsunami warnings over here in the west coast of the US was scary but thankfully nothing really happened. Hawaii was hit pretty bad  Also Santa Cruz over here near the bay area was hit pretty bad. Not that the tsunami caused any destruction on land, a major harbor in SC was getting huge tide pulls, going in and out. Usually tides take hours and hours to change, in SC it was changing constantly within minutes and practically every boat in the harbor got wrecked. I feel bad because a lot of those boats are peoples lives.oh also, scientists are speculating that this phenomenon called "Super Moon" may have caused this. Super Moon is essentially when the moon gets as close to the earth as possible and in this case, there was a Super Moon when this all went down. Also there was solar flare activity, it seems unlikely but maybe later it will reveal that these were the causes. | ||
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fanta[Rn]
Japan2465 Posts
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S.O.L.I.D.
United States792 Posts
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dump
Japan514 Posts
On March 13 2011 12:27 Draconicfire wrote: Ah, I was afraid of that. Does that mean a portion of the area now submerged would stay submerged? Also, for those that might know a bit more about this stuff, when I was talking to my sisters about the earthquake, one of the things that popped up was whether or not something like this would potentially lead to something else happening, such as Mt. Fuji going off or something. Japan as an area is pretty volatile, and I'm actually not quite sure. An analyst on NHK says that last time something similar happened, the cities rose up about a foot within a year, but then it stopped -- so it's semi-permanently underwater to some extent. | ||
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