Earthquake in Japan

DOCARCH · 11-03-2011 7:52am #1

A strong Earthquake has just hit northern Japan - Tokyo region.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia.php

Magnitude 8.8

Shield · 11-03-2011 7:55am

We really have no idea how lucky we are on this island that we've never had anything like this, and hopefully never will. Those poor souls are now on a tsunami warning. As if an 8.8 wasn't bad enough...

DOCARCH · 11-03-2011 8:31am

There are few reports (so far) of any significant damage at the moment as a result of the earthquake but some parts have now been hit by a tsunami which looks like it may have caused significant damage to coastal areas and possibly loss of life.

Tsunami warnings now issued for many areas of the western Paciffic.

Cantona's Collars · 11-03-2011 8:43am

Watching it live on Sky News,10 metre tsunami is doing serious damage.Check out one clip where the vans and cars trying to escape get hit by it.USA,Taiwan and Indonesia have issued tsunami alerts,it could hit Hawaii around lunchtime.
7.5 aftershock has hit the area.

Big Daddy Cool · 11-03-2011 8:51am

flicking between sky news and fox news since 6.30 and the tsunami i saw was incredible, i saw people in cars trying to get away, just washed away and an oil refinary is now on fire, after shocks of 6.7 upwards reported. low lying area evacuations taking place in hawaii now due to potential tsunami's and its still 3-5 hours away

Cantona's Collars · 11-03-2011 9:04am

Link to coverage live from Japan (in English) http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/6810.htm

tinofapples · 11-03-2011 9:05am

My brother is on holiday there at the moment. He was at Mount Fuji 22 hrs ago but haven't made contat with him since then and can't get through on his mobile. Mother nature

11-03-2011 9:14am

Bloody Hell. God love them. Lots of damage.

List of Tsunami arrival times for west coast of US.

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2010/02/27/725245/25/webeta725245-25.txt

200motels · 11-03-2011 9:20am

Saw it on Sky news, my goodness.

Stercus Accidit · 11-03-2011 9:23am

Jake1 wrote: »

Bloody Hell. God love them. Lots of damage.

List of Tsunami arrival times for west coast of US.

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2010/02/27/725245/25/webeta725245-25.txt

Feb 27th?

Big Daddy Cool · 11-03-2011 9:28am

tsunami sirens started in hawaii, expected around lunchtime our time.

wildefalcon · 11-03-2011 9:31am

God help us if the 1755 Atlantic Earthquake happens again!

I hope that the plans and preparations that the Japanese people have made over the years work and that no-one is injured.

Big Daddy Cool · 11-03-2011 9:41am

christ almighty did anyone see the explosion from the oil refinary there a few minutes ago :eek:

11-03-2011 9:46am

horrible news,there will be 100's of deaths.
The floods are crazy sweeping cars away.

Theres a big thread on after hours.
Earthquakes have absolutely nothing to do with weather.

Seeing threads here might have people thinking they do.

11-03-2011 9:46am

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

Feb 27th?

Sorry, still half asleep.:o
Pulled up wrong one.

11-03-2011 9:49am

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

christ almighty did anyone see the explosion from the oil refinary there a few minutes ago :eek:

yeah, looks mental. All the scenes look bad. Just watched several boats smash into a bridge.

Big Daddy Cool · 11-03-2011 9:59am

Jake1 wrote: »

yeah, looks mental. All the scenes look bad. Just watched several boats smash into a bridge.

yeah saw the boats to, and i heard whole islands have disappeared around that area, really hope there was'nt many people living on them

11-03-2011 10:10am

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

yeah saw the boats to, and i heard whole islands have disappeared around that area, really hope there was'nt many people living on them

I feel sorry for all the small islands in the path, Guam and the Mariannas etc.

The power of the earth moving beneath you like that must be terrifying.

Ive just been listening to hawaii fire and rescue, they are getting very worried there. Traffic is backing up all across the islands.
Talking about barricades. Saying waves will come in at 5-6 feet.:eek:

11-03-2011 10:11am

video here of whirlpool. Crazy looking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU8zyscGWe4&feature=player_embedded#at=24

Hawaii just had a 4.5 .

gbee · 11-03-2011 10:14am

http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

Before I went to bed last night Japan had suffered ten earthquakes of large magnitude. I switched on Sky News etc and saw nothing.

This AM in two hours it been hit by another 13 large earth quakes un real.

Big Daddy Cool · 11-03-2011 10:21am

Jake1 wrote: »

I feel sorry for all the small islands in the path, Guam and the Mariannas etc.

The power of the earth moving beneath you like that must be terrifying.

Ive just been listening to hawaii fire and rescue, they are getting very worried there. Traffic is backing up all across the islands.
Talking about barricades. Saying waves will come in at 5-6 feet.:eek:

yeah just watching hawaii now myself, cars 30 deep trying to get petrol to get out of there, there not sure how high it will get, some guy on fox news predicted a minimum wave of 1 metre could hit hawaii, it could be higher or lower they just dont know

amiable · 11-03-2011 10:24am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU8zyscGWe4

amiable · 11-03-2011 10:26am

Does anyone know if the tsunami will hit Australia and New Zealand?

11-03-2011 10:26am

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

yeah just watching hawaii now myself, cars 30 deep trying to get petrol to get out of there, there not sure how high it will get, some guy on fox news predicted a minimum wave of 1 metre could hit hawaii, it could be higher or lower they just dont know

Listen to the lads here. Line can get bad. But i did hear them say 5-6 ft waves.

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=542

Big Daddy Cool · 11-03-2011 10:31am

Jake1 wrote: »

Listen to the lads here. Line can get bad. But i did hear them say 5-6 ft waves.

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=542

oh yeah, i heard that, i was just saying that the lad on fox said they didnt know how high they could get, but the minimum was 1 metre waves, even the minimun is about 3 feet, enough to do damage i'd say

eskimocat · 11-03-2011 10:33am

tinofapples wrote: »

My brother is on holiday there at the moment. He was at Mount Fuji 22 hrs ago but haven't made contat with him since then and can't get through on his mobile. Mother nature

I hope you get through to him. Please drop a line here if you do. In the mean time I will keep him in my thoughts along with the rest of those poor people.

amiable · 11-03-2011 10:33am

Sky said earlier that some islands in the Pacific wouldn't have heights high enough to avoid the Tsunami

11-03-2011 10:38am

Big Daddy Cool wrote: »

oh yeah, i heard that, i was just saying that the lad on fox said they didnt know how high they could get, but the minimum was 1 metre waves, even the minimun is about 3 feet, enough to do damage i'd say

Bloody sure. Jeez, could ye imagine that heading toward us?

We really are lucky here, as has been said before.

Su Campu · 11-03-2011 10:40am

Here's the latest on warnings from the Japanese Met Agency

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/

Big Daddy Cool · 11-03-2011 10:40am

Jake1 wrote: »

Bloody sure. Jeez, could ye imagine that heading toward us?

We really are lucky here, as has been said before.

yeah we are, i would'nt like to be on bettystown beach with a 3 foot wave bearing down on me

Big Daddy Cool · 11-03-2011 10:42am

3 meter high tsunami wave forecast for parts of the hawaii islands :eek:

11-03-2011 10:45am

Su Campu wrote: »

Here's the latest on warnings from the Japanese Met Agency

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/

Bloody hell, that board is lit up!

Big Daddy Cool · 11-03-2011 10:50am

tsunami expected to cause damage on northern californian coastline

noel farrell · 11-03-2011 10:50am

have been watching all morning it looks really bad. shows how fortunate we are in ireland no major disasters .

gbee · 11-03-2011 11:33am

noel farrell wrote: »

have been watching all morning it looks really bad. shows how fortunate we are in ireland no major disasters .

Don't research the Canary Island landslide so then. Our turn awaits.

11-03-2011 11:35am

gbee wrote: »

Don't research the Canary Island landslide so then. Our turn awaits.

I dont have any problem saying that thing worries me .

(not that I lose sleep over it, but ye know what I mean

)

amiable · 11-03-2011 11:40am

gbee wrote: »

Don't research the Canary Island landslide so then. Our turn awaits.

Saw a documentary about that before.
Apparently its not an if it happens but when it happens

weisses · 11-03-2011 11:48am

Looks like it was a cloudy day in Japan when the quake hit

11-03-2011 11:48am

On the RSOE map, its strange seeing all the tsunami icons spread across. Never seen so may icons on the map before.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php

John mac · 11-03-2011 11:56am

2.7 in Hawaii

edit :- 4.5 was yesterday

here

gbee · 11-03-2011 12:01pm

Trying to get cooling water on a nuclear reactor :eek:

amacachi · 11-03-2011 12:06pm

gbee wrote: »

Don't research the Canary Island landslide so then. Our turn awaits.

It's been awaiting for a long time while other countries keep jumping ahead and taking our turn though.

redsteveireland · 11-03-2011 12:34pm

Why is this in the weather forum?

The Lovely Muffin · 11-03-2011 12:53pm

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110311/video/vwl-tsunami-hits-japan-after-8-9-megaqua-89eb865.html

Absolutely awful.:(

DOCARCH · 11-03-2011 1:18pm

redsteveireland wrote: »

Why is this in the weather forum?

Because many people interested in the weather are interested in other natural phenomenon - that's probably why?

The thread is called 'Earthquake in Japan' - if all you want is the weather, then don't read this thread (like the other ones on volcanos, the moon, aurora borealis, etc.!)

eskimocat · 11-03-2011 1:52pm

Thay have just mentioned 10 Foot (not meters!!oops) waves on Today FM news :eek: North East Japan

Strongest earthquake in mordern time! according to guy on now... (Proff Chris Bean?)

9 Earthquakes bigger than the Christchurch one in the past number of days all in that area.

Edit: He says good chance of ppl getting out of the way of the tsunami, thankfully!!

J6P · 11-03-2011 2:10pm

Should be live Tsunami in Hawaii on this channel

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904&nav=menu55_1_1

fizzycyst · 11-03-2011 2:10pm

volcano has erupted in Indonesia also

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/03/11/general-as-indonesia-volcano_8350822.html

J6P · 11-03-2011 2:11pm

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Harps · 11-03-2011 2:13pm

Terrible scenes, reminiscent of the 2004 quake. Thankfully it seems to have mainly affected rural areas but the city of Sendai is right in its path. Most buildings seem to have withstood the quake but its the tsunami thats devastated the area

Toyko, Osaka and other major cities largely unscathed thankfully

Min · 11-03-2011 2:54pm

Hawaii about to be hit, the sea is moving way back out from the coasts at the moment, CNN presenter getting very worried for reporter who is trying to get to higher ground.

Earthquake in Japan

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