Earthquake!

[gomichild]

3 in Kanagawa. 2 in Chiba and Tokyo. No tsunami warning.

[CrankyBastard]

first

But
you should have been squatting under the table, not sitting in front of the computer.

[IkemenTommy]

:cool: But
you should have been squatting under the table, not sitting in front of the computer.

Heh heh.. I ducked and covered under the table with the notebook PC!
It was a nice and looong one.. kinda like the one we had last week.

[CrankyBastard]

To minimize loss and damage in a quake, try not to own things.

[Greji]

To minimize loss and damage in a quake, try not to own things.

If you must have something, consider owning only stolen items and like merchandise, as they are much cheaper to replace in the invent of damage!

[CrankyBastard]

Experiencing an earthquake is terrifying, but the majority of people caught in one do survive.
During the tremors, try to resist the temptation to have sex with pets or houseplants.

[IkemenTommy]

Experiencing an earthquake is terrifying, but the majority of people caught in one do survive.
During the tremors, try to resist the temptation to have sex with pets or houseplants.

Only you.. dude..

[CrankyBastard]

:rofl: Only you.. dude..

Hey! I can't be the only one.
I'm sure Jack will back me up here!
Come on Jack, tell us all about the cute little hibiscus you were with the other night.

[AssKissinger]

[SIZE="5"]Quake raises fears of 2nd N. Korea test [/SIZE]33 minutes ago



A strong earthquake shook northern Japan on Wednesday and the Japanese government said it had detected tremors, leading it to suspect North Korea had conducted a second nuclear test.

However, Kyodo News quoted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as saying he had no information to confirm a second North Korea test had taken place.

U.S. and South Korean monitors said they detected no new seismic activity Wednesday in North Korea.

In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Brian Maka, said: "We have received no credible information to confirm any of that. No seismic activity has been detected on our part."

White House spokesman Blair Jones said, "We have no independent confirmation of the second test."

[GuyJean]

Not too shabby.. Started small, grew large..

GJ

[gomichild]

3 in Tokyo and Kanagawa, 4 in Chiba.

*goes back to bed*

[F_O_R_E_X]

If you must have something, consider owning only stolen items and like merchandise, as they are much cheaper to replace in the invent of damage!

you mean something like owning stolen panties??
(is that really so rampant in japan?)

[F_O_R_E_X]

you guys living in japan must really be used too earthquakes

i mean 36 pages dedicated to the topic.........

it's like saying " learn 2live with it or better to not choose japan"

[GomiGirl]

3 in Tokyo and Kanagawa, 4 in Chiba.

*goes back to bed*

Damn thing woke me up, scared the cat but the boy slept right through it.

[IkemenTommy]

Yeah the damn thing started shaking and I almost got up to post it on here but then said to myself.. screw it. I went back to sleep instead. It was nice and wavey one, wasn't it?

[IkemenTommy]

I felt that little one just a earlier before 8am. Anyone else felt it?

[GuyJean]

I felt that little one just a earlier before 8am. Anyone else felt it?

Yep.. Just barely on the 32nd floor..

GJ

[IkemenTommy]

first again!

[FG Lurker]

That big earthquake in Taiwan has really fucked things up with Asia communications.

It seems that Japan and HK have very little connectivity right now as many of the lines pass through Taiwan...! We have no SAP here today as our server is in the HK office, and I know a lot of other foreign firms who have their mail/SAP/et al servers in HK are in the same boat.

Even phone calls into HK are very patchy right now, they only seem to go via satellite with horrible quality and very limited numbers of lines. Most calls aren't getting connected at all.

It's been a fun day at work to say the least.

[Mulboyne]

That big earthquake in Taiwan has really fucked things up with Asia communications.

Bloomberg: Asian Internet, Phone Services Hit by Taiwan Quakes

Internet and telephone services across Asia were disrupted, hampering financial transactions, after earthquakes near Taiwan damaged undersea cables. "The repairs could take two to three weeks," said Leng Tai-feng, president of Chunghwa Telecom Co.'s international business. The Taipei-based company, Taiwan's largest phone operator, said two of its undersea cables were cut. A series of earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.1 tremor, struck Taiwan last night and today, killing at least two people and cutting power supplies. HSBC Holdings Plc said its online banking services were down, while Chunghwa said almost no calls could be made to Southeast Asia, causing disruption to companies including First State Investments in Singapore.

"I can't trade if I don't know the prices," said David Leong, who heads the Singapore trading desk at First State, which manages $15 billion in equities in Asia and emerging markets. "I've put in limit orders to try to minimize the damage, but even then you need to have the basic information." Chunghwa said voice calls to the U.S. are down to 40 percent of normal capacity, while calls to China are down to 10 percent, and 11 percent for Japan. Hong Kong's PCCW Ltd. said it only had 50 percent of its telephone capacity in the region and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., Southeast Asia's largest phone company, reported Internet traffic was hindered.

HSBC spokeswoman Vinh Tran in Hong Kong said there was no access for its online banking service in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Both the city's stock exchange and Securities and Futures Commission said operations were normal. Damaged cables include the APCN2 cable and Sea-Me-We3 cables, Chunghwa's Leng said. Eight STM-1 cables from Okinawa off Japan and 4 STM-1 cables to Shanghai are acting as backup, Chunghwa said in a statement. The company may also use the ST-1 satellite. Singapore Telecom, France Telecom SA and Pakistan Telecommunication Co. are among companies that own the Sea-Me-We3 cables linking Europe to Asia. Operators in the APCN2 cable network that connects Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore include China Unicom Ltd., StarHub Ltd., Telekom Malaysia Bhd. and Telstra Corp.

"It's not just Taiwan that will be impacted," said John Hibbard, a former executive at Telstra's global wholesale network business and now runs a consultancy business. "Submarine cables running off the Taiwanese coast connect Japan with the Philippines and Hong Kong so the earthquakes may disrupt corporate communications across the region." Asia had the slowest Web connection with response time at 619 milliseconds, or triple the average 200 milliseconds, according to the latest figures from Internet Traffic Report's site, which monitors the flow of global Internet data.

"We are experiencing problems in overseas markets like Taiwan. We can't get in touch with Japan," said Andrew Clarke, a sales trader at SG Securities Hong Kong Ltd. "We've had other brokers come to us to give us orders because they can't do it. We're basically using mobile phones to place orders." Tokyo-based KDDI Corp. said it's re-routing phone calls to go through the U.S. and Europe. Repairing the cables can typically take several weeks to two months, KDDI's spokesman Haruhiko Maede said. Some Asian fixed-line lines were disrupted by the quakes, said Akira Yamanaka, who oversees the telecommunications industry at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Overseas connections at Korea's Foreign Ministry and corporate clients were affected, said Kim Cheol Kee, a spokesman for Seongnam-based KT Corp., South Korea's largest provider of fixed-line services.

Internet users of China Netcom Group Corp. (Hong Kong) Ltd., the smaller of China's two fixed-line operators, have difficulty accessing overseas Web sites, Xu Song, a company spokeswoman, said by telephone from Beijing. Connections to local Internet sites aren't affected, she said. The main quake, classified as "major," struck at 8:26 p.m. local time yesterday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) under the seabed, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. The tremors came on the second anniversary of the 2004 Asian tsunami, when a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra unleashed waves that destroyed coastal villages from Indonesia to Sri Lanka, killing more than 220,000 people.

[GomiGirl]

My blog is down - it is hosted in Hong Kong. Not sure what I can do about it other than wait until the lines are back up.

[FG Lurker]

I can now see your blog, but it is taking forever to load, about a minute so far and nothing but the window title has appeared. (Ah, a bit more has come up now, about a minute later!)

Hopefully we'll have some sort of VPN access tomorrow but I'm certainly not holding my breath.

[Kuang_Grade]

here in the states, its taking about 40-45 seconds for the first page to completely load of Gomigirl's blog

[FG Lurker]

Still no VPN but we now have semi-reliable fax and phone connections...

The provider on the HK side is saying that the VPN should function via rerouting by tomorrow.

[GomiGirl]

here in the states, its taking about 40-45 seconds for the first page to completely load of Gomigirl's blog

Just keeps trying to load but even after 10 minutes nada. Problem is that I can't post - I am on a ski trip in Hokkaido and wanted to share.

BTW it has just started dumping snow - just in time for our first run tomorrow. Off to beddy-byes now.

[American Oyaji]

I have no problem accessing her plog.

[cliffy]

I have no problem accessing her plog.

Ahh yes maybe, but does SHE know?

BTW what is a 'plog'? That's a new one on me.

[IkemenTommy]

First!
Probably a <3 in Tokyo?

[AssKissinger]

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200702070147.html

High-rises... in Tokyo could sway violently if subjected to long-period seismic waves in a quake

People in the upper floors could face serious or fatal injuries from toppling furniture.

Long-cycle seismic waves create slow oscillations lasting up to a few minutes. This is what would likely happen in the anticipated Tokai and Tonankai earthquakes.

Ominously, such quakes are amplified in sedimentary basins that are found in the Kanto region, Nagoya and Osaka, home to Japan's three largest cities.

[GuyJean]

6+ in Kanazawa!



GJ