9.0 Earthquake off the coast of Honshu, Japan

[atomic7732]

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.

[Cheeseman123]

My prayers go out to all who was affected.

[Bla]

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 is supporting Japan with aid.

Non-Believers Giving Aid - 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.

[atomic7732]

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.

[Darvince]

Holy shi-

[Naru523]

Neh~

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

[atomic7732]

Ohes noes anozer Zhernobil

[Darvince]

Still:

Oh shi-

[Bla]

The amount of destruction is terrible. :/

[Naru523]

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).

[Naru523]

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.

[atomic7732]

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

[Mars]

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.............

[Darvince]

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

[Naru523]

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