Japan Earthquake News

[trax1]

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

Strip

Not sure about that, like I said they were showing that footage on CNN saying it was an oil refinery, and then I just saw it on my local Fox news again showing that footage saying it was an oil refinery that was on fire.  As for the nuclear plant all they've said was that a cooling system failed, but there was no leak of radiation.

[EskimoJoe]

Strip, that Tsunami will hit Hawaii in about twenty minutes. ~4AM AKST, ~3AM local time.

[Strip]

I hope so, lot easier to let a refinery burn than a nuke plant.....might be a bit harder to put out though.

Wonder if there are live feeds from Hawaii.....

Strip

[trax1]

Yeah here I found the video of it, go to 1:15 in the clip and it shows the refinery and talks about it on fire, and they talk about the nuclear plants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYT6BjfBro

[moot]

I don't recall ever seeing structures like those in a nuke facility.

[trax1]

Wonder if there are live feeds from Hawaii.....

Strip

Heres a live feed looking at the shore line, kinda dark out still though.

http://www.ustream.tv/cbsnews#utm_campaigne=synclickback&source=http://mashable.com/2010/02/27/hawaii-tsunami-warning/&medium=522594


Edit: well they were just showing a feed of the shore line, but now it's news, maybe they'll go back.

[moot]

Thanks Trax.  Any idea if that's the shore facing tsunami direction?
.. That's a news channel stream, not a pure webcam.

[EskimoJoe]

I don't recall ever seeing structures like those in a nuke facility.

Just a quote from the youtube link posted above :

"... Right now you're looking at live pictures of an oil refinery in xxx prefecture in Japan,
but according to the Prime Minister there have been no damage to nuclear powerplants
 in the quake-hit area..."

[moot]

There's a couple of people sat on Waikiki beach.  Guess they want a front row seat.

[trax1]

Ok found a link to a live feed, you need Microsoft Silverlight.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904&nav=menu55_1_1

There's a couple of people sat on Waikiki beach.  Guess they want a front row seat.

Yeah I see them, the news people were even saying if you know them tell them to leave, thats it's not very smart to be sitting there.

[EskimoJoe]

8 foot waves have been reported hitting Midway, 3-8foot waves expected
to hit Honolulu within 10-20 minutes now.

[EskimoJoe]

Do we have any Jap players on the game?

Yes, I believe we have a handful.

[trax1]

8 foot waves have been reported hitting Midway, 3-8foot waves expected
to hit Honolulu within 10-20 minutes now.

Yeah CBS is talking to a guy there and he said the last buoy reading has it to hit at 8ft at 7:20 CST, so about 10 more mins.

[skorpion]

well lets hope everyone gets thru this tsunami alive. dont need more casualaties as it is. 

[trax1]

CNN is reporting that they are evacuating an area 3K's 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.