Japan Earthquake News

[EskimoJoe]

CNN is reporting that they are evacuating an area 3K around a nuclear power plant in Japan because of the cooling system failure, they said it's just precautionary because of the lack of being able to keep things cool. 

I heard ~30kilometers from CNN, and that there was a possible
radiation leak however nothing confirmed. They said that the
plant wasn't producing optimum power output.

Again, just precautions for the worst.

[trax1]

You can start to see it on the live stream now.

[moot]

[EskimoJoe]

You can start to see it on the live stream now.

It's been confirmed on the news that the first waves have started hitting,
with reminders that the first waves are not always the worst.

[MarineUS]

im watching the live hawaii cam.

We got a call (I've been up for 2 days) from our Squad leaders to stay up and alert in case they call us over there.

[oakranger]

Good luck to the people in the Pacific.   

[oakranger]

WOW! Here it comes.

[EskimoJoe]

200-300 bodies found on the coastline near Sendai according to the live feed.

[oakranger]

200-300 bodies found on the coastline near Sendai according to the live feed.

Yea, just heard that. 

[trax1]

The big waves coming, look at the water pulling away from the shore, they said it's pulled back 300ft already.

[MarineUS]

it's about to get VERY ugly.

[EskimoJoe]

it's about to get VERY ugly.

Not according to this math major here  

Still though, hoping for the best.

[oakranger]

Kauai just got a 8 foot wave!

[Dichotomy]

 
for low loss in human life

[trax1]

Anyone else seen that video of that huge whirlpool that formed off the coast of Japan?  That thing was crazy looking, I mean it was massive, and you could see a boat that was caught in it.