Japan hit by 8.9 earthquake, tsunami hitting pacific!

[mapes]

That pick of the tsunami wave reminds me of the Ents unleashing the waters into Isengaurd in the "Two Towers"

[juneau]

Apparently Tokyo was hit by a 6.6 in the last hour or so.

Earthquakes today are blue. Last hour are red.



In other news: Apparently a very large volcano in Indonesia erupted a few hours after all this started.

[juneau]

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2131: Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan has just announced that residents living within 10km (6.2 miles) of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear station must evacuate their homes, according to the Kyodo news agency. Engineers are trying to fix the cooling system of one of the plant's reactors, which was damaged by the earthquake. The authorities had earlier told some 3,000 residents living within 3km (1.9 miles) to leave.

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2132: The Tokyo Electric Power Company has said radiation may already have been released at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant.

Apprently they're going to release some radioactive vapour to help. Hope the consequences of this aren't too bad.

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2139: Radiation levels at the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant are continuing to rise. The Jiji Press news agency says the levels are eight times above normal. Its report also cites a ministry official as saying there is a "possibility of a radioactive leak".

edit: Ticker on BBC News via AFP stating the radiation levels are now 1000x above normal. Please, please, please be wrong or a bad translation.

[MR_MADHATTER]

I have a friend in Nagasaki who works for the Navy. He should be ok where he is but I havn't heard from him yet after posting on his facebook.

Amazing video still coming out of Japan. They look like something from a Hollywood disaster movie.

[mapes]

Apprently they're going to release some radioactive vapour to help. Hope the consequences of this aren't too bad.
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Wait what WHAT they are releasing radioactive vapor! My god Godzilla!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MR_MADHATTER]

Wait what WHAT they are releasing radioactive vapor! My god Godzilla!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate to say it, but the same thought went through my head too when I heard that. << inappropriate

[juneau]

I hate to say it, but the same thought went through my head too when I heard that. << inappropriate

I heard that sometime a few hours after it started Godzilla was trending on Twitter.

[AmazingRedd]

very sad tragedy for japan.

[juneau]

The sun has been up for a while. Now it's time to realise just how bad the damage is.

News from the power plants isn't too good. But it looks like they have it under control, for now.

[Apache Warrior]

Reports of an explosion at a Nuclear Power Plant.
Apache

[Devilguns]

This is just horrible, feel so bad for them.

[Donziboy2]

Its believed to have been a steam explosion and that the reactor core is undamaged.

[juneau]

Its believed to have been a steam explosion and that the reactor core is undamaged.

Let's hope so or this could get very very bad.

BBC keeps showing footage of a city that 99% of the buildings are no longer there. They overlay an image of how it looked every few seconds. Estimates are 10,000 people unaccounted for.

[juneau]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkHxDZGSM7E

OMG! @ 1:27. I would not want to be there!

[juneau]

Please fire Alec Sulklin now!!!! Not really surprised something this immature came from a writer of the awfulness that is Family Guy.

If you wanna feel better about this earthquake in Japan, google "Pearl Harbor death toll".

From his twitter 12 hours ago. What a disgrace to humanity you ****!