Earthquake!

[canman]

Is this not a perfect excuse for Japan to cancel the 2020 Olympics and use the money to help pay for Tohoku and Kumamoto! Not like it is going to happen, but I think it would be a great idea. Also, my wife is getting freaked out by all the AC Japan commercials that they are airing again. I think it is a kind of PTSD from March 11th.
I don't want to sound rude or uncaring, but are earthquakes good or bad for the economy. It seems that a lot of the buildings that have been destroyed were quite old and frail, and had those kawara tile roofs. Now there will be a huge building boom to recover what was destroyed, or will this mean another huge exodus to Fukuoka, Osaka, and Tokyo?

[legion]

I don't want to sound rude or uncaring, but are earthquakes good or bad for the economy. It seems that a lot of the buildings that have been destroyed were quite old and frail, and had those kawara tile roofs. Now there will be a huge building boom to recover what was destroyed, or will this mean another huge exodus to Fukuoka, Osaka, and Tokyo?

All of the above

There are still people in Ishinomaki living in temporary accommodation, still a lot of empty plots of land near the sea too.

[Takechanpoo]

20 cases of burglars breaking into empty house and empty office were reported around Kumamoto city.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20160 ... 4-mai-soci

[Russell]

20 cases of burglars breaking into empty house and empty office were reported around Kumamoto city.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20160 ... 4-mai-soci

Blame it on the K-folks (?)

[Takechanpoo]

its high probability that those burglars are yakuza who recently lost their original money source by protracted recession.

[matsuki]

I don't want to sound rude or uncaring, but are earthquakes good or bad for the economy. It seems that a lot of the buildings that have been destroyed were quite old and frail, and had those kawara tile roofs. Now there will be a huge building boom to recover what was destroyed, or will this mean another huge exodus to Fukuoka, Osaka, and Tokyo?

All of the above

There are still people in Ishinomaki living in temporary accommodation, still a lot of empty plots of land near the sea too.

I think it's ultimately going to be a positive for Kumamoto...the human toll is faaaar lower than we'd expect and as others have already noted, many of the abandoned shacks that collapsed are opening up potential and the inhabited shacks are better falling apart now than when there's some family gathering that ends up with a human debris sando. (Assuming the exodus is kept to a minimum)

[Samurai_Jerk]

Mysterious foam fills the streets of Japanese city in the wake of the country's second deadly earthquake this week

A mystery layer of foam covered the streets of a city in Japan in the aftermath of an earthquake which hit the country this week.
The foamy substance appeared in the centre of the southern city of Fukuoka in the early hours of Saturday, following a 7-magnitude quake which shook the Kumamoto region.
A magnitude-6.5 earthquake had struck the same area on Thursday night, but residents of Fukuoka reported little damage in the aftermath of either.
People posted images and a video of the unexplained foam on Twitter, leading many to speculate on its cause, with one theory that a tremor may have caused a underground water pipe to burst.

[canman]

I wonder how many people are going to complain now that the US military Ospreys are the only thing that can land and take off in the disaster struck area! I tried to post a comment like that on JT and the bastards refused to keep it. Bunch of haters they are over there.
Yokohammer, when Sendai and Nattori were hard hit by the earthquake and tsunami, was there a shortage of food and water. I don't remember hearing here in Hachinohe about shortages. I'm a bit surprised they haven't been able to get anything through to the survivors.

[Russell]

Mysterious foam fills the streets of Japanese city in the wake of the country's second deadly earthquake this week

A mystery layer of foam covered the streets of a city in Japan in the aftermath of an earthquake which hit the country this week.
The foamy substance appeared in the centre of the southern city of Fukuoka in the early hours of Saturday, following a 7-magnitude quake which shook the Kumamoto region.
A magnitude-6.5 earthquake had struck the same area on Thursday night, but residents of Fukuoka reported little damage in the aftermath of either.
People posted images and a video of the unexplained foam on Twitter, leading many to speculate on its cause, with one theory that a tremor may have caused a underground water pipe to burst.

Works like a bubble chamber. Nuke plant OK?

[Yokohammer]

Yokohammer, when Sendai and Nattori were hard hit by the earthquake and tsunami, was there a shortage of food and water. I don't remember hearing here in Hachinohe about shortages. I'm a bit surprised they haven't been able to get anything through to the survivors.

Yes. Water especially. In this area we had no water for 11 days, then it came back on briefly, and then off again for another 5 days. We were lucky to have a couple of wells in the area to draw from, but the drinkability was questionable so that got used mainly for washing and flushing. Bottled water was a prized possession there for a while. The roads were fcuked so it was a while before supplies started arriving.

I think the shortages in Kyushu are mostly in areas that have been isolated by landslides and bridges collapsing, etc. The only way in is by air.

[Coligny]

I wonder how many people are going to complain now that the US military Ospreys are the only thing that can land and take off in the disaster struck area! I tried to post a comment like that on JT and the bastards refused to keep it. Bunch of haters they are over there.
Yokohammer, when Sendai and Nattori were hard hit by the earthquake and tsunami, was there a shortage of food and water. I don't remember hearing here in Hachinohe about shortages. I'm a bit surprised they haven't been able to get anything through to the survivors.

Try the alphabet noodle soup approach... More than 3 paragraphs and the mods give up...

Now... If you can land a V22 you can land a CH 53 or a Chinook. And it would be better for everyone to avoid landing an Osprey in high wind with all the media backlash any issue would trigger...

[Samurai_Jerk]

I wonder how many people are going to complain now that the US military Ospreys are the only thing that can land and take off in the disaster struck area! I tried to post a comment like that on JT and the bastards refused to keep it. Bunch of haters they are over there.
Yokohammer, when Sendai and Nattori were hard hit by the earthquake and tsunami, was there a shortage of food and water. I don't remember hearing here in Hachinohe about shortages. I'm a bit surprised they haven't been able to get anything through to the survivors.

I've got a coworker from the area and her parents and other relatives are all in evacuation centers right now. She's very grateful for the help the US military is providing.

[Takechanpoo]

those j-haters who brainlessly hate us military and the new aircraft are Asahi, Mainichi shinbun and other j-left wingers or j-liberals which are pro-gaijin faction and not majority in this chain of islands. the situation is complicated.
j-marjority is fully welcomed ospray. as for me, got a little bit impressed to watch the one landing in yokota air base on my cycling around there.

[Yokohammer]

I've got a coworker from the area and her parents and other relatives are all in evacuation centers right now. She's very grateful for the help the US military is providing.

The US military were a huge help up here after 3.11 too, and people remember that. They have equipment and skills for situations like this that are frankly second to none. They had Sendai airport (a total mess after the tsunami) cleaned up and ready for supply and support aircraft in short order, for example. My neighbour who works at the airport said it would have taken local teams a month or more just to clear a landing strip and get the most basic ATC operations in place. And just to balance the record, the JDF were great too, in many other ways, but when it came to pinpoint heavy lifting the US military did an amazing job. They'll have the supply and transport situation covered in no time.

[Coligny]

Well... Establishing beach heads and setting up landing zone is sort of their game...

[Wage Slave]

The advantage of Ospreys is they can fly lot faster as well as land more or less anywhere. Useful when you need to quickly get a smallish amount of people and stuff in and out of somewhere to do a dirty deed. Helicopters are a bit slow and easy to shoot down. Remember raid on Tehran?

Chinooks are exactly the aircraft you need and there are loads of them around. And they are legendary good ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_November

[yanpa]

The advantage of Ospreys is they can fly lot faster as well as land more or less anywhere. Useful when you need to quickly get a smallish amount of people and stuff in and out of somewhere to do a dirty deed. Helicopters are a bit slow and easy to shoot down.

This is not a problem in Kyushu, I believe.

[Wage Slave]

The advantage of Ospreys is they can fly lot faster as well as land more or less anywhere. Useful when you need to quickly get a smallish amount of people and stuff in and out of somewhere to do a dirty deed. Helicopters are a bit slow and easy to shoot down.

This is not a problem in Kyushu, I believe.

Not at the moment. When and if it develops to be so, Ospreys may then be the only way of safely getting supplies in.

[yanpa]

The advantage of Ospreys is they can fly lot faster as well as land more or less anywhere. Useful when you need to quickly get a smallish amount of people and stuff in and out of somewhere to do a dirty deed. Helicopters are a bit slow and easy to shoot down.

This is not a problem in Kyushu, I believe.

Not at the moment. When and if it develops to be so, Ospreys may then be the only way of safely getting supplies in.

We must pray for Kumamon.

[Wage Slave]

The advantage of Ospreys is they can fly lot faster as well as land more or less anywhere. Useful when you need to quickly get a smallish amount of people and stuff in and out of somewhere to do a dirty deed. Helicopters are a bit slow and easy to shoot down.

This is not a problem in Kyushu, I believe.

Not at the moment. When and if it develops to be so, Ospreys may then be the only way of safely getting supplies in.

We must pray for Kumamon.

Indeed.

[Russell]

The advantage of Ospreys is they can fly lot faster as well as land more or less anywhere. Useful when you need to quickly get a smallish amount of people and stuff in and out of somewhere to do a dirty deed. Helicopters are a bit slow and easy to shoot down.

This is not a problem in Kyushu, I believe.

Never seen a volcano shooting up rocks?!?

[yanpa]

The advantage of Ospreys is they can fly lot faster as well as land more or less anywhere. Useful when you need to quickly get a smallish amount of people and stuff in and out of somewhere to do a dirty deed. Helicopters are a bit slow and easy to shoot down.

This is not a problem in Kyushu, I believe.

Never seen a volcano shooting up rocks?!?

Not personally, but certainly could be an issue if relief flights are routed right over the top of actively spewing volcanoes

[BigInJapan]

Quake update from Kyushu - Tue. April 19th.
We've felt three aftershocks here in eastern Fukuoka today (so far).
All quite short and weak (M1 or so). The one around 5PM was apparently a "strong 5" in Kumamoto.
Mrs. BIJ talked to a friend in Kumamoto city today, and although their house is OK, many people are still leery of sleeping in their houses, and traffic is pretty bad. Supermarkets are just opening back up today after getting cleaned up, and supplies in. Some (many?) large companies remain closed as of today.
Let's hope the aftershocks end before too long...

[Grumpy Gramps]

Wasn't able to buy bottled water today at our local home center. Looks like every single box of it was taken down to Kumamoto.

[Yokohammer]

Wasn't able to buy bottled water today at our local home center. Looks like every single box of it was taken down to Kumamoto.

The locals tend to buy up all available stock when things like this happen too.

[yanpa]

Quake update from Kyushu - Tue. April 19th.
We've felt three aftershocks here in eastern Fukuoka today (so far).
All quite short and weak (M1 or so). The one around 5PM was apparently a "strong 5" in Kumamoto.
Mrs. BIJ talked to a friend in Kumamoto city today, and although their house is OK, many people are still leery of sleeping in their houses, and traffic is pretty bad. Supermarkets are just opening back up today after getting cleaned up, and supplies in. Some (many?) large companies remain closed as of today.
Let's hope the aftershocks end before too long...

And 20 minutes after you posted that, a 5- came along.

Wasn't able to buy bottled water today at our local home center. Looks like every single box of it was taken down to Kumamoto.

The locals tend to buy up all available stock when things like this happen too.

How's the toilet paper situation?

[Coligny]

I put guards on duty around my TP storage facility. Ain't nobody taking muh TP.
Order be to fire without wurnang.

[Coligny]

[matsuki]

Nice Osprey PR hahahaha

Did they really load that thing with a line of people, passing things down one by one?? That has to be just for the video, right?

[wagyl]

I can confirm that the human chain method of logistics is alive and well, and actually very efficient if you have lots of idle hands around the place.