Japan Earthquake News

[EskimoJoe]

From my local news station
http://www.ktuu.com/news/sns-rt-news-us-japan-quaketre72a0ss-20110311,0,6781242.story

Scary footage. Scroll down for more info.

"TOKYO (Reuters) - A massive 8.9 magnitude quake hit northeast Japan Friday, causing many injuries, fires and a 13-ft tsunami along parts of the country's coastline, NHK television and witnesses reported.

There were several strong aftershocks and a warning of a 32-foot tsunami following the quake, which also caused buildings to shake violently in the capital Tokyo..."

"The U.S. Geological Survey earlier verified a magnitude of 7.9 at a depth of 15.1 miles and located the quake 81 miles east of Sendai, on the main island of Honshu. It later upgraded it to 8.8."

[EskimoJoe]

Coastal regions of Alaska (particularly SE AK) are now under Tsunami Warning.

Hawaii is under Tsunami warning, as well as others in the area (Guam,
Indonesia, the Philippines, etc.)

[EskimoJoe]

I'm sure if you've been watching the news, you know that
most of USA's West Coast is under Tsunami Warning.
If you live under a rock playing Aces High all day, now you know.

[rpm]

I hope Rolex is OK. The news footage from Japan looks like some CGI disaster movie. 30ft high tsunami just mowing over everything in it's path.

Tsunami Warnings for Hawaii, Alaska and the entire US west coast.
 

[moot]

I don't recall if Rolex is in that area of Japan.

[EskimoJoe]

The quake was felt pretty hard in Tokyo, but most of the damage is
further (aprox. 300miles) north. I believe there is ~4million homes
without power in Japan as of an hour and a half ago.

The situation is developing on CNN, FOX, more than likely MSNBC
and BBC as well by now.

[skorpion]

Rolex is somewhere in Japan i thought...

[trax1]

CNN just said it's gonna hit Hawaii in about an hour, then it's gonna hit the U.S West coast at 7:20-30 am PST, and it looks like it's gonna hit Hawaii hard.

[Strip]

A fire broke out in the turbine building of Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi Prefecture on Friday, Kyodo News reported

This does not look good, hope they get that under control, I also read that they started an emergency core cooling system.

Best wishes to all those involved...

Strip

[trax1]

This does not look good, hope they get that under control, I also read that they started an emergency core cooling system.

Best wishes to all those involved...

Strip

Yeah I caught that part of the story too, hopefully they can get it under control.

[EskimoJoe]

I'm unsure if it's the same fire that you mentioned, but CNN mentioned
that there was a large fire that was put under control near Tokyo.

There was a similar report that declared a state of emergency around
one nuclear reactor somewhere in Japan, unsure of it's location now,
however they said that there weren't any known radiation leaks.

[jolly22]

 

I know most tsunamis from earthquakes dont hit Hawaii, but this earthquake is huge...I'd be running for high grounds right about now....I hope everyone will be okay.

Do we have any Jap players on the game?

[Strip]

The reactor mentioned in my quote is the one that has declared a state of emergency, the first nuclear plant to do so in Japan.



Wow....

Strip

[trax1]

The reactor mentioned in my quote is the one that has declared a state of emergency, the first nuclear plant to do so in Japan.

(Image removed from quote.)

Wow....

Strip

I saw that on CNN, I believe that was an oil refinery that was on fire, not the nuclear plant.

[Strip]

On a positive note, Japan and Hawaii have excellent tsunami protection plans. The
wave headed for Hawaii is 6 feet tall and traveling 500 mph according the news.

It will make landfall in less than an hour apparently....

 

trax1, according to the live news and the article that was pulled from it is indeed the nuclear plant.

Strip