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[fivecups]

Massive destruction. I think the full extent of the damage and the loss of life will only become apparent over the next few days and weeks.

[Greavesie]

is it too early...?

[tubby]

I think the worst is over. Fortunately Japan is well equipped to deal with earthquakes, most buildings in cities are designed specifically to withstand such events, compare that with Haiti. Unfortunately you can't really predict one and dealing with a tsunami is even worse.

TBH Something like this was always on the cards, they are placed on a fault line after all. Terrible though still. What will be a even bigger disaster is if any nuclear plants leak as a result.

[RedSi35]

Very sad, but mother nature is fantastic to watch sometimes, the tsunami was awesome and looked like straight out of some apocalyptic hollywood blockbuster.

Watching some of that footage where cars/vans suddey realised what was coming was scary, they were simply just washed away. Give credit to the japs though, most of them were just getting on with their daily routines while the buildings were shaking to peices.


Suppose they only panic when godzilla turns up

[neil]

holy shit theres been an explosion at a nuclaer factory
video

[woof woof !]

Give credit to the japs though, most of them were just getting on with their daily routines while the buildings were shaking to peices.


Suppose they only panic when godzilla turns up

More seriously. I never knew Japan had so many nuclear power plants, there's apparently over 50 of them !

As evidenced by the explosion at the Fukushima plant, in a country that is subject to regular natural disasters surely so many nuclear plants are another disaster just waiting to happen.

[The Good Yank]

Oh .  This is just not going to get better anytime soon.

[laza]

holy shit theres been an explosion at a nuclaer factory
video

That's a big DOH

Not sounding good at all ,like Woof Im amazed at amount of reactors they have in Japan

[SouthCoastShankly]

holy shit theres been an explosion at a nuclaer factory
video

That's a big DOH

Not sounding good at all ,like Woof Im amazed at amount of reactors they have in Japan

The explosion isnt from the reactor core, all modern day reactors are designed so they can't explode. What actually happens in a worst case scenario is the nuclear reaction generates so much heat it melts the human concrete shield surrounding the vessel and melts through thx floor.

The biggest risk here is fire, which would send nuclear material into the atmosphere.

[fivecups]

Some amazing footage coming out of the Tsunami. Contrasting it to the Boxing Day Tsunami, there doesn't seem to be as many people in the videos of the event, or bodies in pictures of the aftermath.

I was wondering why this is? Is it that the Japanese people know to get to high ground after an earthquake or have a lot of the bodies been pulled way out to sea and are going to gradually wash up over the next few days?

Shocking tragedy. Some of the photos from Google are showing towns which have literally been razed to the ground.

[metalhead]

I was wondering why this is? Is it that the Japanese people know to get to high ground after an earthquake or have a lot of the bodies been pulled way out to sea and are going to gradually wash up over the next few days?

estimated 10,000 casualties from the tsunami, maybe the Japanese government restricted the media from showing such horrible news?

[tubby]

Nah I doubt it. They are used to earthquakes there and are generally well organized when it comes to these sorts of situations. I think although it was a bigger earthquake than the one in Sumatra the placement of where it originated meant a less devastating tsunami.

[metalhead]

The earthquake isn't the problem bav, its the tsunami which caused massive damage and casualties, no one can stop a wave that is going the speed of a jumbo jet.

Plus the Sumatra earthquake was 9.0 on the Richter scale, and the waves were higher but slower than the one the Japanese got.

[burjennio]

The Indian ocean earthquake of 2004 was over a 9.0 magnitude, it was many times bigger than the Pacific one of Friday (in fact it was the second or third biggest earthquake ever recorded by seismologists) - the reasons a lot less people were killed was a combination of Japans preparation and experience of such events, the tsunami dissipating alot sooner than in 2004 due to less overall energy being released during the quake and finally but most crucially the Indian ocean tsumani hitting less developed countires, most of which had never dealt with such an event in recent times and subsequently a lack of warning was spread across the continent sadly meaning that a large number of areas were unevacuated when the waves hit.

[fivecups]

I heard on the news today that their Tsunami warning triggered 1 minute after the earthquake. Superb. I wonder how many lives that saved??