Smells like anti-Americanism in here. Figures. How about instead of focusing on some people with a giant chip on their shoulder, we focus on getting more information about the death toll, tsunami effects, and the general state of the reactors.

Apparently, 100,000 troops have been deployed in relief rolls. That's good to hear.

And:

Unfortunately realizing that a country of 300+ mil. people is going to have a lot of idiots isn't the "cool" thing to do, instead hating on America is. -_-

This was an amazing little bit of good news among the very bad - apparently he was 15km out to sea when he was rescued!

Unbelievable... sickening yes, and how about incredibly narrow minded?? I can't even put into words what I'm thinking right now.. how can you link two very different events of two different times? May as well just go and use the "karma" excuse for every natural disaster a country experiences, no matter the scale. And the Americans amongst those who are saying such comments should shut up and check their country's history. No country on this earth has an angelic history, so no one can afford to point their finger.
Nature does not "revenge" what man has done to man, nature is better than that.

Edit: in regard to previous posts, I'm not ranting at Americans, just the people who have the nerve to say such comments (no matter what nation).

Rants aside, this morning I read an article about people's reactions to the footage who survived the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. Made me want to cry aswell.
Edit 2: link for relevancy: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17605848?nclick_check=1

Uh, did they forget that we nuked them? Kinda makes us even...actually, we probably deserved more in that trade off.

To anybody interested, here is a video of the Fukushima NPP explosion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM3FWIKxWDs&feature=player_embedded

Oh, and actual cracks... moving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LPGzzaSsbU&feature=player_embedded#at=67

One of the earthquakes (Maybe the first) from the 22nd floor of an office building in Tokyo.

Warning Strong Language: :nono: Links to forum censored language is not allowed.

Ah the scientific genius that is the youtube community.

Wow the ground still moving looked kinda cool, but damn how can this get any worse for Japan, its disaster after disaster.

I saw this yesterday, which was why I was less than pleased with the Godzilla joke.

As if all the devastation wasn't enough, http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article965229.ece/Japanese-volcano-erupts


Here's http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/01/japan-volcano-eruption-shinmoedake-evacuations on it. Really can't catch a break, can they? :shakehead:

As for fears of a meltdown at one of the nuclear plants, everyone should read http://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors/ before jumping on the armageddon bandwagon.

I dont think any country could prepare for this, damn, we are going to need to send alot more people/money to rebuild.

This is a world wide spport thing right ?

First an earthquake, then a possible nuclear meltdown, then an erupting volcano. Did Japan anger a god or something?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxRT60-kw78&feature=player_embedded#at=123

I thought that it would make the Godzilla joke seem pretty mild.

Some interesting information from wiki.

Apparently the surface energy of this quake was bigger than that of the 2004 Indonesian quake. But overall the 2004 was a bit stronger (9.1). It shifted the main island of Japan 7.9 feet to the east, shortened the earth's days by 1.6 microseconds, and was so powerful underground that it had 600 million times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb. It's a good thing that energy doesn't come to the surface or we'd lose a large chunk of anything above ground in the pacific.

Look at it this way...at least they can do basic addition correctly.



Great (and really informative) link. Thanks for sharing! :thumbsup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjps7wb91qA

Was just looking around the web at aftermath photos, videos, and transcripts.
I can't imagine how they will recover. It all just seems so overwhelming. where do you begin?

Its not surprising, really. The earthquake probably scratched off the scabs that were holding the magma in, so to speak.


Getting drinkable water to people, then food, then cleaning things up, clearing away rubble, etc. I would think.

Yahoo news says Japan is saying it was a 9.0 as of today not 8.9 like our stuff says


svcks balls

An increase in that number at this point doesn't make anything worse, it just provides a more accurate description of the cause :shrug:. The damage was done days ago.

I just found out about this last night. Insane.


That volcano's like the other side of the country. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/feb/01/japan-volcano-erupt-in-pictures?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487#/?picture=371270069&index=1 :shocking:

The tsunami's devastation is far worse though.

been upgraded to 9.

Wow, just wow... :blink:

Attack to Pearl Harbor was act of war, not natural disaster. And what about nuking Japan twice? That is true act of inhumanity. Just my own opinion, no offense.


And now volcano? Damn.

Not as much pvssyr on this as one would expect.

I guess the death toll raised to 2,400 now that they found about 1,000 more bodies washed up on shore. Along with another explosion with a reactor, but the radiation was low at least.

The death toll in the end is going to be fairly high I think, not as bad as Indonesia but around 15-20,000. It svcks. There's also been about 150 aftershocks since the earthquake.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake that's a fairly up to date Yahoo article on it.

Hopefully they find more survivors, and those estimates are lower than they figure. But with so much destruction..I don't know.

Apart from plague, water is the most deadly thing on the earth.

I swear my country is getting stupider each generation.

ohhh facebook. pearl harbor retribution WAS met when we nuked them, i guess you can say. that was war and this is a natural disaster.