Just heard on the news the casualties have escalated to 1000+ now. My God, so terrible. This is truly horrible.
There are so many videos on youtube being uploaded as we speak of people from Tokyo and higher experiencing the earthquake, some are very frightening. There's one, that I wont link, where the guy literally gets crushed by a huge chest in his house that falls over on him and then his TV falls off the shelf on him. It's ridiculous. I think he's ok though, else how would he have uploaded the video.

at least 1000 are dead in japan
the USA has some minor damage
a ship in japan with 100 on board was swept away
presuure still rising at the nuclear power plant
and they evacuated ppl closet to the reactor 'just in case'

" magnitude 6.6 quake has now struck in central Japan, AP news agency reports, causing Tokyo buildings to sway. It is not clear if this is connected to the earlier quake and aftershocks. More on this as we get it." BBC just now.

Yeah, Japan was JUST hit by another earthquake. As nelar said, 6.6 magnitude. I'd say it's more than likely related to the earlier quakes.

What an insane destructive force.. A friend of mine and her mom are in Japan now to visit family, but they're in Osaka, so they should be safe.

I have some good friends in Japan, and this is just making me feel sick with worry. I have never seen such raw destruction, and yet I know this world has endured even worse. It is humbling.

The numbers vary from the sources I've heard. From my friend in Tokyo who'm I'm on the phone with right now, he says the news is stating 80 thousand missing people, while US reports only 1000.

yes now i heard there was major damage in crescent city california and 4 people there were swept out to sea

i think 1000 dead is low
thats not counting the missing ship or the missing passenger train

Would everyone from now on mind giving links to where they're getting all this info, if they have them? All of the sites I've been following don't seem to update very frequently, even sites like CNN and MSNBC.

Try http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698, Anti

I believe I witnessed several peoples deaths while watching that wave creep across the land.

I saw 2 separate clips were cars were trapped by the wave both in front then behind. Eventually it closed in and washed the vehicles away. I'm kinda stunned.

Living on the west coast of Canada, it's only a matter of time until we suffer a similar fate. We are already over due for the "big one".

Yep, some of the footage I've seen I actually watched peoples cars, with people IN the cars, get washed away under a blanket of muddy water rushing 30 miles an hour. Just insanity watching a car full of people tumbling like a tumble weed under that wave. :confused:

the 80k is people missing, the 1k is people confirmed dead. The last large-scale earthquake to hit Japan killed 5.5k, but they've stepped up their earthquake-resistant and tsunami-control technologies significantly since then as well as warning systems. Hoewever, this earthquake was a bit larger than that one.


http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/asia/live-blog-japan-earthquake

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ (not only covering this anymore, but they are still covering it more in-depth than most broadcast stations are)


When the Cascadia Subduction Zone goes off, the NW American coastline is going to be completely trashed, I have no doubts about it We really haven't done nearly enough about that.

The footage is really daunting :/ RIP those who have died.

I dreamt of tsunamis last night.. several waves heading towards two coasts opposite each other. I've dreamt of tsunami-like waves before but the timing on this one was uncanny.

Keeping an eye on the BBC.. hope there won't be more destructive aftershocks.

Thank you for this, I was looking for footage on Japan.

Wow, has anyone else see the video of the oil refinery that was destroyed? Its quite scary.

Watching the BBC footage too. Water has horrific destructive power and there's nothing anyone can do against that.

Very sad to hear about, and even moreso to watch.

This is sickening - the news images are terrible - I so hope their nuclear reactor can hold it together - last report it had 2.1x the normal pressure inside and they were trying to vent it - spent last night listening to the radio as we had a Tsunami warning for NZ and i'm in a yellow zone near a beach so far the waves have been small here - I thought the Christchurch earthquake was bad enough but this one in Japan is hugely devastating - I hope the aftershocks stop soon for them

I keep seeing the images of the water flooding the lands.. except you can barely call it water anymore, it's black and full of debris, quite scary to watch even from the safety of somewhere far away from the affected areas.

it says 8.9 on yahoo news and the afterquakes were about 50 in a row which was 6.0 sizes O_O [censored] man

From my understanding, the amount of aftershocks, how strong they are and how quickly they hit after the big one is a bit unusual.

Just thank the gods that Japan is prepared for this kind of thing.

watching it now but does anyone know when this happend? was it like yesterday or just a few hours ago?

Well, about as prepared as one can be for complete chaos.




"Friday at 2:46 pm local time"

Deduct whatever the time zone difference for your area.

The http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-nuclear-plant-2011-3 nuclear plant situation is not looking good. :confused:

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