I had the day off so I'm at home with a rum and coke watching the coverage. My wife was in central Tokyo and is staying at a friends. If your in central Tokyo your walking, finding a friends place to crash at, going to the bar all night or sleeping at the station.
Take care. Hope you have a good night near Sagami Bay
Thoughts go out to those who have been caught in the blast. Currently am on the line trying to get to Foreign Affairs through right now and ask what Canada will do.
It takes a good disaster to remind us just how stoopid cable news anchors are when they're not reading off the prompter. CNN was pretty good in the overnight hours. but most of the time they just ran the live english feed from japanese network nhk. This morning they are back to their usual level of suck.
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Just woke up to these images. Such utter devastation. Looks like CGI except it's real and heartbreaking.
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Amazing news, I got to work at 7am (cst) and one of our tv's in the lobby is set to the weather channel and the volume is down but it showed the Tsunami warning for the Islands. Knowing what it takes to create a Tsunami I turned it to a news channel and found out about the earthquake. I can only hope that the casualties are kept to a minimum
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Starting to get real ugly now as things calm down a bit. They just found about 300 bodies near the ocean, probably sucked out to sea by the tsunami in Miyagi prefecture. Some of the waves went inland as far as 2-3 km there. Also mentioned on the news 23 junior high students missing, maybe trying to get home when the quake/tsunami's hit. Terrible stuff, thoughts go out to their families. Looks like an absolute disaster zone in the northern part of Honshu island. So many more still missing and unacounted for.
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Some of the video shot by citizens that went through this is unbelievable. That being said it looks like much of the areas the video is coming from was built quite well to survive the violence of the shaking that was going on. Sounds like Hawaii is getting a pretty good blast right now as we speak....thankfully they had a long time to get things set there.
Just a side note and hardly anything important compared to the catastrophic events, but it looks like the stock market is going to get creamed today because of this event.
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My parents are on a cruise in the south pacific right now. Anyone know how the smaller islands fared? Cook, Kiribati, Tahiti etc?
Haven't heard any of those mentioned by name, but they did say that the Philipines were braced for a significant tsunami event and that Midway has sustained a pretty big one as well.
the best place to be in an event like this is on a big boat though...as long as there is the warning time that they likely received.
Some of the video shot by citizens that went through this is unbelievable. That being said it looks like much of the areas the video is coming from was built quite well to survive the violence of the shaking that was going on. Sounds like Hawaii is getting a pretty good blast right now as we speak....thankfully they had a long time to get things set there.
Japan had a 7.3 last year and no major damage or injuries were reported. It just goes to show how well equipped they are to deal with earthquakes over there as such a quake would level most other countries.
Tsunamis sure complicate things though.
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The first wave of the tsunami passed through Midway Island - a small atoll at the north-western end of the Hawaiian archipelago, about 500 miles (800km) from Hawaii's main islands - at about 1125 GMT, bringing a wave of more than 8ft (2.4m), the local Star Advertiser newspaper reported.
But waves were measured at 1.6ft at Nawiliwili on the island of Kauai and 2.3ft on Barbers Point on Oahu, local officials said.
