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General Category => Astronomy & Science => Topic started by: atomic7732 on March 11, 2011, 07:34:15 AM

Title: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: atomic7732 on March 11, 2011, 07:34:15 AM

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0001xgp.php

Tsunami alerts out

Quite alot of destruction.

I'm thinking damage/death toll something like Chile, if not up to 175% of that.

Title: Re: 8.9 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: Cheeseman123 on March 13, 2011, 07:28:04 PM

My prayers go out to all who was affected.

Title: Re: 8.9 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: Bla on March 13, 2011, 11:04:21 PM

Horrible. And a nuclear power plant is in danger as well.
I just red there had been an after-quake (not sure this is a word?), causing an explosion at reactor 3 in Fukushima-Daiichi.

Red Cross (http://www.icrc.org/eng/donations/index.jsp) is supporting Japan with aid.

Non-Believers Giving Aid (http://givingaid.richarddawkins.net/) - if you happen to be non-religious, want to help, and are tired of the claim that "only religious people give aid" etc., this one is a good site.

Title: Re: 8.9 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: atomic7732 on March 13, 2011, 11:46:33 PM

aftershock  ;)

Why are people only beginning to post today? Anyways it was upgraded to 9.0 a few days ago making it number 4 on the list of largest recorded quakes in history.

Title: Re: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: Darvince on March 14, 2011, 09:20:07 AM

Holy shi-

Title: Re: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: Naru523 on March 14, 2011, 10:00:05 PM

Neh~

Third explosion on ze power plant, continuing ze risk of nuclear meltdown and ze evacuation.

Title: Re: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: atomic7732 on March 14, 2011, 10:02:30 PM

Ohes noes anozer Zhernobil

Title: Re: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: Darvince on March 15, 2011, 09:42:23 PM

Still:

Oh shi-

Title: Re: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: Bla on March 22, 2011, 12:24:10 PM

The amount of destruction (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html) is terrible. :/

Title: Re: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: Naru523 on April 08, 2011, 03:14:39 PM

A strong aftershock, recorded 7.4, happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFd8yKLBB-0

Another interesting thing is that...
The earthquake moved Honshu  2.4 m (7.9 ft) east and shifted the Earth on its axis by almost 10 cm (3.9 in).

Title: Re: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: Naru523 on April 13, 2011, 10:55:29 PM

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency raises the severity of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents  to level 7, the highest on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

Title: Re: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: atomic7732 on April 14, 2011, 07:33:58 AM

Making the Fukushima accident compare to that of Chernobyl in 1986.

Title: Re: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: Mars on April 15, 2011, 03:30:59 PM

I see that the Earthquakes and floods and all the bad things will happen for about 2 or 3 moar months? And about that radition comeing to the west coast.............

Title: Re: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: Darvince on April 15, 2011, 03:49:18 PM

Radiation at the west coast is only 1/100,000 of the radiation in Japan

Title: Re: 9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan
Post by: Naru523 on April 15, 2011, 03:54:35 PM

I heard my substitute teacher talking 'bout that when we were learning Earth's ocean. aaaaa.