Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[Typhoon]

It's just disaster envy.

Russians had big, explosive rods, the Japanese just have leaky ones

[Brasco]

I saw the footage of Fukushima, and it made me think... is there nothing on the internet I won't masturbate to?

[John Dillinger]

Yeah, it'd be pretty silly to forgo the benefits of early detection of cancer because of fears over the radiation dose you'd get from a CAT scan (still, ceteris paribus, choose an MRI). And speaking of radon, basement dwelling will give you a heapin' helpin' of it.

Oh crap. Guess where I dwell?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

[SIZE="5"]Fukushima worker says the situation is 'catastrophic'
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Oh, duh...I hate to get into semantics here, but let's look at the situation: 9+ magnitude earthquake, 20-meter-high super-tsunami, world's second-worst nuclear accident (to date), almost 30,000 dead, inept crisis management, etc., etc....and all the worker can say is "it's catastrophic." Tell us something we don't know, mate.

BTW, thanks for all your efforts trying to save us.

[Mulboyne]

How many Japanese restaurants in the world do you reckon are called "Tsunami"?

Quite a few, if this is any guide.

[dimwit]

How many Japanese restaurants in the world do you reckon are called "Tsunami"?

Quite a few, if this is any guide.

When I was in Saipan, I was actively looking for Tsunami beer (a Hawaiian microbrew), but it looks like they pulled it from the shelves.

[tidbits]

How many Japanese restaurants in the world do you reckon are called "Tsunami"?

Quite a few, if this is any guide.

I was freaking out reading one of the youtube poster's name "tsunamidaisuki", looked like that was nothing compared to naming own business establishment.

[Coligny]

hummm... guyz...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014747557_quake12.html

[TL/DR] Big quakes put more stress on the tectonic system, or not.

Nobody knows for sure, but we're fooked... maybe... or not...

But at least it seems that they agree on the 10 years of aftershocks...

[Coligny]

10:09 Another quake alert...

That's it... I'm not sleeping anymore... ever...

[Yokohammer]

But at least it seems that they agree on the 10 years of aftershocks...

I can live with the indistinct risk of another big quake ... sometime. Been living with that for the past four decades anyway. But ten years of aftershocks?! If it's going to be this type of "Large Earthquake of the Day, with a side order of Numerous Smaller Ones" scenario for the next ten years, I don't think I could deal with that. That, much more than the Fukushima nuke accident, would have me thinking about leaving. I prefer that the ground I live on remains still most of the time.

[cstaylor]

I can live with the indistinct risk of another big quake ... sometime. Been living with that for the past four decades anyway. But ten years of aftershocks?! If it's going to be this type of "Large Earthquake of the Day, with a side order of Numerous Smaller Ones" scenario for the next ten years, I don't think I could deal with that. That, much more than the Fukushima nuke accident, would have me thinking about leaving. I prefer that the ground I live on remains still most of the time.

Deep within the Kyuushu mountains surrounding his evacuation lair, Takechanpoo prepares his constant earthquake generating machine...

[Greji]

Deep within the Kyuushu mountains surrounding his evacuation lair, Takechanpoo prepares his constant earthquake generating machine...

What a stupid post! Everybody knows that earthquakes are generated by the CIA in an underground lab in Colorado! I know 'cause Benjamin Fulford let me in on the secret and everybody knows he knows everything....

[Coligny]

I can live with the indistinct risk of another big quake ... sometime. Been living with that for the past four decades anyway. But ten years of aftershocks?! If it's going to be this type of "Large Earthquake of the Day, with a side order of Numerous Smaller Ones" scenario for the next ten years, I don't think I could deal with that. That, much more than the Fukushima nuke accident, would have me thinking about leaving. I prefer that the ground I live on remains still most of the time.

That Or you could dig a very big swimming pool and live on a boat... inside the pool... might make the quake a bit more bearabul...

(I don't know if this idea is extremly stupid or extremly smart... but I don't think there is place for any middleground)

[matsuki]

I can live with the indistinct risk of another big quake ... sometime. Been living with that for the past four decades anyway. But ten years of aftershocks?! If it's going to be this type of "Large Earthquake of the Day, with a side order of Numerous Smaller Ones" scenario for the next ten years, I don't think I could deal with that. That, much more than the Fukushima nuke accident, would have me thinking about leaving. I prefer that the ground I live on remains still most of the time.

Makes me wonder if the structures here will hold up to 10 years of strong shaking...we all know the economy won't.

[Yokohammer]

Makes me wonder if the structures here will hold up to 10 years of strong shaking...

I shudder to think about it (<- see what I did there?).

But really, that's a good point. Even if it was an average of one 6+/- quake every three to six months for the next 5 years, how many structures ... bridges and roads included ... are going to fail catastrophically because of that? I bet the answer is "more than one".

EDIT: Oh yeah ... and nuclear power plants.

[Yokohammer]

That Or you could dig a very big swimming pool and live on a boat... inside the pool... might make the quake a bit more bearabul...

If you can come up with slightly more elegant engineering solution, you might be onto something there.

Rolling/flexing/shock-absorbing foundations are already being implemented ... but floating sounds good. Gives new meaning to the invitation: "wanna come round to my place and get sloshed?"

[cstaylor]

Don't worry... takechan will turn off the machine once the last foreigner has fled the island.

[John Dillinger]

What a stupid post! Everybody knows that earthquakes are generated by the CIA in an underground lab in Colorado! I know 'cause Benjamin Fulford let me in on the secret and everybody knows he knows everything....

With the beating poor Japan and it's people have taken, I'm beginning to wonder if it's Yamato No Orochi's fault.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamata_no_Orochi

[Coligny]

With the beating poor Japan and it's people have taken, I'm beginning to wonder if it's Yamato No Orochi's fault.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamata_no_Orochi

Lulwut ?



(Those guys have called one of their cars like a mythical plague ? Who was in charge of the business plan ? seriously ?)

[Coligny]

And your daily catastrophe courtesy of Tepco.

Tuesday morning fire in a battery bay... I wonder who thought putting this kind of equipment less than 5 meter from the sea was a good idea... But the whole plant setup seems everyday to look more and more like a gigantic "FUCK YOU" to basic common sense... (please, no cost-benefit excuses here either... That's the perfect place for a food court, not for batteries, not even for storage of batteries)

http://martynwilliams.posterous.com/tuesday-morning-fire-at-fukushima-daiichi

[Typhoon]

[cstaylor]

[Greji]

It would appear that the Tsunami hit the west coast of the USA a little stronger than was thought. On April the 2nd, they found the body of a California photographer that was washed away when the Tsunami hit the coast line in California. He was washed out to sea and found dead as a wet doornail on the shore in Oregon, some 500 miles north of where he disappeared. The article and part of the video Take posted is here.......

[Mike Oxlong]

:glow:

http://www.japansubculture.com/2011/04/why-japans-mainstream-media-cant-be-trusted-to-report-objectively-on-tepco-%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E9%9B%BB%E5%8A%9B%EF%BC%89/

Same as post 1837...

[cstaylor]

Same as post 1837...

Damn it... beat to the punch. Thanks.

[Mike Oxlong]

Sure, sure...you probably have a real life outside FG Forum, and don't spend 24/7 mentally indexing each and every thread with all the other blogs, news, vids, and goats out there.

[vanilla coke]

this guy scares the shit out of me....
what are your thoughts on what he has to say????
fast forward to 8.00 minutes ,where he starts talking about eastern japan...



Mod edit - fixed your YT tags. Note for future, just enter the video id code (ie the stuff after the v= in this case YHFRD74zIOg ) in between the YT tags. Then this will embed the vid into the post.

[Typhoon]

this guy scares the shit out of me....
what are your thoughts on what he has to say????
fast forward to 8.00 minutes ,where he starts talking about eastern japan...

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The "Illuminati" logo stuff at the start raised a red flag.

Completely wrote him off when he claimed that the USGS detects only 20% of the planet's earthquakes at any given time.

The rest is purely speculative bullshit.

Yet another idiot wacko with internet access.

[FG Lurker]

Yet another idiot wacko with internet access.

Say it ain't so!

[Coligny]

The "Illuminati" logo stuff at the start raised a red flag.

Completely wrote him off when he claimed that the USGS detects only 20% of the planet's earthquakes at any given time.

The rest is purely speculative bullshit.

Yet another idiot wacko with internet access.

Yea, the guy seems to be a nutcase...

But as far as the USGS goes... Must admit that they are often quite slow at reporting events, and more than often miss a few that are reported by the JMA... I think they have 2 level of interest... US mainland with high priority because it's their bread and butter and 'rest of the world...'