Japanese Earthquake! 8.9 - 24km* deep

[Tatsu.p]

Thought I'd start a new thread to the Christchurch one.

Must watch video.
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/8-quake-jolts-japan-triggers-tsunami-4058622/video

Live Feed
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/


New Zealand will probably be hit by a tsunami C.D. is watching the Pacific flow before giving out a warning.

Potential Tsunami hit times -

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[HandofBlood]

That tsunami is bitching

[Pitchey]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/video.cfm?c_id=2&gal_objectid=10711752&gallery_id=117232

All I can say is F*%& being on that bridge! Looks like the water's starting to go over it at the far end of the bridge on the end of the vid.

[Zenith]

watching a massive oil refinery burning out of control,  several nuclear power stations shut down automatic but no reports of radioactive leaks.

If you are near the coast, turn on your radio and pack up your valuables, photos and important documents because the could be a tsunami in NZ and OZ as well as the rest of the pacific rim

[Emrico1]

Geezus - poor Japan. Gawd this is horrible.

99% sure there wont be a full tsunami here.

Maybe a tide surge.

[Growler]

Saying it's 8.4 on TV now, any firm confirmations yet?

[BeNZene]

unbelievable tsunami - 7-10M tsunami's reported, damage, fires and deaths reported across 100's of km's of th country.

Thoughts are with you Japan

Re NZ, any tsunami is apparently due about 7.15 NZT in Auckland, 7.45 NZT Wellington.

[Lvl10]

am or pm tomorrow?

[gat]

faaaaaaaark so bad

[bigROBOTbill]

6.40 am our time if and when it happens here

[BeNZene]

TV is now saying 6.15am from Northland.

[SteddieEddie]

Poor poor bastards

[Tatsu.p]

*Moved to top

[Machpants]

Ferk me 8.9, 7th highest ever. only 10km deep. very bad, it is catching, shit

[Emrico1]

Japanese Earthquake! 8.9 - 24km* deep

This is my guess at where the tsunami will hit;

I'm thinking Phillipines, Hawaii and maybe PNG with some of the pacific Islands copping a little... But I think we will be fine.
If a wave even double that size has to travel across that much deep water and 11 hours, it will fade to the point of nothing much for us.

[Retardobot]

Thank god. Friends are inland from Chiba (they live in Chiba) and are free from Tsunami troubles. However his wife was on the 40th floor of a building when the quake hit but he thinks she is OK :\

[jsc123]

THE END IS NIGH

[Zenith]

Can't watch anymore - the NZ woman commentating the 3 news is rambling and making stuff up now - claiming the oil refinery fire is at Tokyo and the airport they were showing has been washed away.  
Will check back on it later.

[BeNZene]

There are videos of the tsunami that show burning buildings being swept along, still on fire. crazy.

[Emrico1]

"
          cycloneupdate   Cyclone Updates                                            
   
            6:43PM EST: Australian Joint Tsunami Warning Centre says NO THREAT to Australia.
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Civil Defence (CD) says if a tsunami hits here the west coast and east coast of Northland will feel the most significant force. It is estimated that a tsunami, if any, will strike tomorrow at 6.15am.
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Derp

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tomoakiyama
I'm based in Tokyo. No tsunami here. Just Northeast coast of Japan.
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http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2011/03/11/sot.tsunami.hit.japan.cnn.html

[genienz]

Can't watch anymore - the NZ woman commentating the 3 news is rambling and making stuff up now - claiming the oil refinery fire is at Tokyo and the airport they were showing has been washed away.  
Will check back on it later.

That woman did my head in.
I have just finished work for the night and we processed a japan bound flight.
Tokyo airports have been checked and cleared and the flight was expected to depart on time.

Seemingly the aftershocks are so frequent that they run into each other and are causing motion sickness. Poor blighters.

[Growler]

At least it wasnt under a main city, a 8.9 would flatten most modern cities in the world. I wonder what the power was like in Tokoyo, I saw one of the vids from a news room and it didnt look too violent, how far away was it from there, ball park?

[Tiwaking!]

unbelievable tsunami - 7-10M tsunami's reported, damage, fires and deaths reported across 100's of km's of th country.

Thoughts are with you Japan

That wave was unbelievably huge.

At least it wasnt under a main city, a 8.9 would flatten most modern cities in the world. I wonder what the power was like in Tokoyo, I saw one of the vids from a news room and it didnt look too violent, how far away was it from there, ball park?

The Wikipedians have been very quick and active on this story.

2011 Sendai Earthquake

The scale of the earthquake is huge.

THE END IS NIGH

Hi Ken Ring! I didnt know you had made an account here! Could I buy some snake oil from you please?

[Plasma]

hhhhmmm sorry Japan, I took another annual leave day.

I take leave and a major earthquake happens, September, December and Feb and again today. Think I'm more accurate than the damn moon man.

[vedds]

Can you give us advance warning of your future leave please, I'm actually tempted to graph the correlation between your leave and challenge ring to match the accuracy...