Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

by **AML** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:57 pm

All safe here. Had to ride into tokyo to pick up the wife from work.

Roads were crazy, glad I bought a bike!

by **Mulboyne** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:03 am

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/

by **AssKissinger** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:10 am

Mulboyne wrote:http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/

Godddamn

by **Mock Cockpit** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:21 am

Kyodo reporting 88,000 missing. Fuck.

by **omae mona** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:49 am

Mock Cockpit wrote:Kyodo reporting 88,000 missing. Fuck.

Seriously? Wow if so. Source please.

by **vitellus** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:55 am

Just a question but does the earthquake feel stronger on higher floors? I was up on the 16th floor of a 23 floor building in Tokyo and it seemed like we were moving at least several meters backwards and forwards. When I popped my head above the desk and looked out the window I half expected to see a vision of destruction outside...

by **vitellus** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:58 am

I read this

"About 60,000 to 70,000 people were evacuated from the Sendai area, according to Kyodo News"

by **MrUltimateGaijin** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:01 am

fucking 6 hour walk

by **dimwit** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:01 am

Look, it is going to be in the thousands dead. Whether it is bigger than Hanshin is a question, but 80,000 is a hell of a lot of people...

by **Mock Cockpit** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:12 am

omae mona wrote:Seriously? Wow if so. Source please.

Was just repeating what someone had said on another site whose info is usually good. I just checked the Kyodo web-site and could find nothing that said that. Hopefully it was wrong. Apologies.

by **Coligny** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:19 am

France 24 report a missing train, a breached dam, the Japanese air force sending 300 planes... because when your main airport have been completely washed away the only thing you need to make it worse is trying to land 300 planes in few meter of fresh and wet mud. 310 dead, 350 missing.

and the USGS report... POLKA DOTS ARE BACK IN Fashion...

by **Crystal Skull** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:43 am

Power just back on down here in Southern Kanagawa.

by **Coligny** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:45 am

The beeb report a cooling failure in a nuke powerplant. Don't know if it's a new development or a re-tell aboot fukushima...

by **legion** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:45 am

I was on the 20th floor and I was down the back staircase and out before the bugger stopped shaking

20 flights up again to pick up my stuff and a 6 hour taxi ride home with some folks from work, it would have been quicker to walk but I couldn't leave the ladies, and they were wearing heels

my effing studio is a mess

that was the second most scary experience of my life

by **FG Lurker** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:46 am

MrUltimateGaijin wrote:fucking 6 hour walk

That's a helluva walk home. Think I would've been tempted to buy a cheap bike somewhere along the way with that sort of distance to cover.

by **wuchan** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:48 am

I'm alive. I spent 10 hours in traffic because the highway closed.

by **samuraiwig** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:01 am

omae mona wrote:Seriously? Wow if so. Source please.

BBC news feed at 1443 GMT:
"Back to Japan now: The official Kyodo news agency is reporting that about 88,000 people are missing."

From here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

Note that it says missing, which covers all those who are currently without phone connections or unable to access phone/PC.

Also the 1659 feed says: "Kyodo also reports that the death toll from the earthquake has been revised down by police from 137 to 133. Another 531 people are missing."

And the 1703 one: "The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami is expected to exceed 1,000, Kyodo adds."

So clearly information is all over the map.

by **legion** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:23 am

FG Lurker wrote:That's a helluva walk home. Think I would've been tempted to buy a cheap bike somewhere along the way with that sort of distance to cover.

a lot of people did

there was a nice ojisan outside a tea shop near Ogikubo handing out hot free tea to people walking home

by **AssKissinger** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:26 am

legion wrote:a lot of people did

there was a nice ojisan outside a tea shop near Ogikubo handing out hot free tea to people walking home

Compare that to how savagely people behaved after Katrina.

by **Pearse** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:31 am

wuchan wrote:I'm alive. I spent 10 hours in traffic because the highway closed.

Otsukaresama. I just spent about four and half hours driving with my friend to pick up someone. Not near as long as you, but long enough.

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:43 am

legion wrote:a lot of people did

there was a nice ojisan outside a tea shop near Ogikubo handing out hot free tea to people walking home

Not such niceties on my walk home. A bunch of the convenience stores closed their bathrooms as did office buildings. I had to walk a good 45 minutes till I found one I could use.

Anyway, including the pit stop my trip home took about 3 hours.

by **Christoff** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:37 am

one of the most shalow things i read in a while.

by **legion** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:42 am

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Not such niceties on my walk home. A bunch of the convenience stores closed their bathrooms as did office buildings. I had to walk a good 45 minutes till I found one I could use.

Anyway, including the pit stop my trip home took about 3 hours.

convenience store we stopped by had opened the staff loo specially

looks bad up north, let's hope this is the last big shake we will have in our lifetimes

by **waruta** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:45 am

I'm still stuck in Hamamatsucho, the scene right after the earthquake was not pretty, people fighting for taxis, conbini's emptied of food, no taxis to be found. Right now it's not so bad, but there are a lot of people stranded. As I'm writing this there is an aftershock going on... shit. News says expect aftershocks for a month ?!

by **2triky** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:57 am

Google Person Finder deployed to get in touch with people in Japan given the state of the telephone lines.

http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en

by **Blah Pete** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:21 am

M6 range quake at 4:03 around the Nagano to Niigata area.

by **Tsuru** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:27 am

More pics:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/massive_earthquake_hits_japan.html

Western sources still reporting 1.000+ deaths and 88.000+ missing

Stay safe.

by **Mulboyne** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:55 am

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by **Blah Pete** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 5:41 am

A M6.6 shaker off Akita. Seems the whole country is rattling.

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by **waruta** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 5:52 am

Yup, just had another one 5 mins ago, seems like JR won't be running until mid-afternoon at least, shitty situation all 'round

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