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Japan earthquake, tsunami pictures

Can we keep the hocus pocus bullshit to a minimum please? The reason applied science is accepted as correct is because it isn't prone to what kind of untruths you feel like spreading today.

Yes, the moon could 'have fucked with the plates' (great terminology by the way) but equally a fat kid jumping up and down on the spot may also have done. Disprove me? You can't. Ban fat kids from playing basketball or it's you next California.

Anyway, coming back onto reasoning....

The Pacific subducting underneath the North American plate caused the earthquake. Therefore a much better angle is that a growing density in the earths core was the prime cause. It's still a totally dumb stance to take but at least its based on some fact. No, earthquakes of this magnitude have been happening for a long time in this region. Records only go back a hundred years or so. This is not a 'special event.'

On a different note, some sad scenes coming out and now the third reactor to go is horrendous. They'll be lucky not to have a meltdown at this rate. I have zero confidence in the politicians and 'scientists' who say it's under control. It's clearly not. They need a bloody miracle. Death toll's going to top 20,000.
 
Geesh that video of the cracks appearing in the ground and moving in Chiba City is shocking. The ground just moving back and forth!

All this news of a possible leak at the third reactor sounds bad. Especially as they are saying it has now reached harmful levels. They seem to be dumbing it down, talking of damage to the containment vessel yet not saying there is a breach. I would have thought it would be evident by now from the radiation levels.

Bad news either way :(


Just a thought but is there an increasing trend for large scale natural disasters over the past few years? Or is it just wider news coverage has brought it to our attention. The article below despite being a little old seems to suggest a mixture of both of these with increased recording of natural disasters and human population growing adding to the scale of the disasters.

Scientists: Natural Disasters Becoming More Common

Interestingly it suggests that hydro-meteorological disasters (e.g hurricanes and tsunamis) have got worse but natural geological ones (earthquakes)have stayed fairly constant.

I suppose also coincidence and the natural cycles of warming and cooling on the planet (putting aside global warming for now) will also be factors. In the grand scheme of things there may have been peroids much worse for disaster... I don't know enough to say for sure... only done 10 minutes basic research. Interesting though.

Putting all that aside though, it's hard reading all the new info as things develop in Japan, <3.
 
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When you see how tired the leaders can get, you can only imagine how tired & cold the people must be with no homes, nothing........ & then to have to deal with the loss of loved ones on top of that....... The world can be such a harsh place.......

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/15/twitter-meme-urges-j.html

Disasters like this reminds you of Hatti, the people are still homeless there after the dreadful earthquake, & its such a poor country that its going to be left like that, it will never be totally rebuilt....

Japan is such a rich country, but were would you even start after a Tsunami rips a place to pieces? Anyone lucky enough to survive will have no home, no nothing, & that farmland is destroyed by sea water, & now the whole Nuclear worry...

I suppose the only good (for want of a better word) thing is a least the Japanese can afford to look after their people, but i suppose all the money in the world won't help the people forget what they have been through....... :(
 
Japan has the biggest deficit in the world and its economy had been shrinking for twenty years prior to posting the 3rd ever biggest 24 hour market loss in the country's history today.

It's pumping billions in to weather the storm. Money to rebuild the North Eastern cities will be very limited.
 
RLP said:
Japan has the biggest deficit in the world and its economy had been shrinking for twenty years prior to posting the 3rd ever biggest 24 hour market loss in the country's history today.

It's pumping billions in to weather the storm. Money to rebuild the North Eastern cities will be very limited.
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Aw, that makes things even bleaker, the place is destroyed in every way possible so....... What a nightmare...... :(
 
It amazes me how calm and orderly the Japanese have been, no riots, no looting, just calmly waiting in queues for shops that don't even have any food and patiently waiting for buses to get them away from the nuclear infected areas and rain. Resilient and brave people. :|

I really hope things don't get too much worse for them but regardless they will bounce back from this relatively quickly I am sure. At least much quicker than most countries can.
 
It is definitely a nightmare. Especially for those directly affected :(<3

But I can't see it being the End of Japan or owt. They bounced back from two back-to-back nukes to become one of the biggest economies on Earth and remained suitably inscrutable throughout. Given they live on such an insanely (geographically) iffy (and kinda small) island and have battered fuck out of each other (in immense style) for millennia now I doubt they're going to be fucked too hard or too long by this. Not making light of the immediate tragedy of it all but if any nation can cope with something like that it's gotta be Japan. They even kick Godzilla's arse annually and he makes way more mess... but definitely kills way less people :(
 
Indeed they have the best chance out of any country I can think of on earth.
 
I can't help but feel so sad when I watch the news! How much devastation can a country take. In fact i often have to turn off the news it's so hard to watch, makes your trivial life worries insignificant............
 
The news is a shit drug. Like nicotine - brief (and fairly unpleasant) rush followed for years thereafter chasing summat you never liked that much in the first place and with little or no obvious benefit or use if you ever found it. Moderation is key when it comes to news, I'd say. Tis Harm Reduction.
 
Shambles said:
The news is a shit drug. Like nicotine - brief (and fairly unpleasant) rush followed for years thereafter chasing summat you never liked that much in the first place and with little or no obvious benefit or use if you ever found it. Moderation is key when it comes to news, I'd say. Tis Harm Reduction.
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I agree with you there, I don't often watch the news as its all BAD NEWS, but at work we have TV's with Sky news on all the time, so sometimes its hard to get away from.

Unless someone switches them to Loose Women at lunchtime !!!
 
Keep in mind that the tradegy and destruction is a far distance from the economic powerhouses of Tokyo and Osaka.

I don't wish to sound like a doom merchant, but due to the financial problems I mentioned above, the rebuilding process in the rural North East will be long, arduous and mainly left to the local residents to pursue.

If anyone can spare a tenner it'd be worthwhile to chuck it at the red cross relief fund. Don't assume that because it's Japan they'll be fine, they need a lot of help.
 
I'm not assuming they'll be fine at all - just saying that Japan is a far more resilient nation than most which is a small mercy but a (small) mercy no less, perhaps. Charity is rarely a Bad Thing.

Blue: Used to watch the news all the time (almost obsessively if there was a "big" story on) for ages. Then stopped when it became nowt but yet another soap opera I'd rather not be hooked into. Real news always filters through. Fuck all the other dross. Loose Women ftw <3
 
Shambles said:
I'm not assuming they'll be fine at all - just saying that Japan is a far more resilient nation than most which is a small mercy but a (small) mercy no less, perhaps. Charity is rarely a Bad Thing.

Blue: Used to watch the news all the time (almost obsessively if there was a "big" story on) for ages. Then stopped when it became nowt but yet another soap opera I'd rather not be hooked into. Real news always filters through. Fuck all the other dross. Loose Women ftw <3
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ha ha yeh Loose Women their a saucy lot !! opps better not high jack a serious thread about a load of older loose women :)
 
the guys at MIT have a much less scary explanation for the spike in radiation after the first explosion than jumps to most peoples minds. In fact I find that entire page rather comforting, but some might find it disturbingly clinical given what its actually talking about.

has anybody found any photos of the tokyo blackouts? if so, please post, its bizarre. i've seen a couple but am not linking directly to facebook...

6.0 aftershock reported 5 hours ago, they just keep on coming.

apparently its petrol rather than food thats running ridiculously low, queues 'hundreds of cars long' outside petrol stations. though obviously when that runs out, the food supplies will get a lot worse.
 
Reading all the stuff about this on the guardian this morning just made me feel sick. At least all my friends are safe, but my heart has to go out for the thousands who have lost their lives.

I don't see why Japan is the most able to deal with such a crsis really, infrastructure might be pretty good but funds and resources are severely lacking in reality.
 
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