Japan March 11th Earthquake

[Anachronous Rex]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709598

You okay LRkun?

New Zealand? I'm told the threat of a major Tsunami is on the slim side, all the same holding in there?

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

I thought LRkun was in the Philipenes? Is there a tsunami warning there?

 

[Anachronous Rex]

I thought LRkun was in the Philipenes? Is there a tsunami warning there?

Yes.

 

[Shaedys]

Tsunami warning everywhere around Japan:
"WAKE UP WEST COAST! Tsunami expected in Los Angeles at 8:45 am PST" Thats something Tynk retweeted

 

[BrainBlow]

Speak of the devil. We just had a thread here about nuclear powerplants and now one is in danger of melting down in Japan.

 

[televator]

Oh, man this is terrible. I hope any members here who are affected by this stay safe.

 

[lrkun]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709598

You okay LRkun?

New Zealand? I'm told the threat of a major Tsunami is on the slim side, all the same holding in there?

I thought LRkun was in the Philipenes? Is there a tsunami warning there?

I am in the Philippines and we did have a tsunami warning, however, no accidents happened so I am safe.

Thanks for the concern.

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709598

You okay LRkun?

New Zealand? I'm told the threat of a major Tsunami is on the slim side, all the same holding in there?

I thought LRkun was in the Philipenes? Is there a tsunami warning there?

I am in the Philippines and we did have a tsunami warning, however, no accidents happened so I am safe.

Thanks for the concern.

Good to hear you are safe.

 

[borrofburi]

Al Jazeera english live streaming coverage (primarily of japan earthquake): http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish (alternatively, if you have real player: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ )

 

[Pennies for Thoughts]

These Reuters photos bring it home.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/

 

[entinee]

How can we help the victims of Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear trahedy? Japan is back to the days when Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings reduced it to ashes. From ashes emerged a strong and technologically advanced nation : Japan. But due to the recent 8.9 Richter earthquake, followed by a massive tsunami, followed by nuclear radiation leak, my heart goes out to those who lost their everything in a matter of minutes. Is there any way that we can help them? If so, how?

 

[Andiferous]

Hello there.

The Guardian has a fairly large catalogue of different charities and the means to contact organisations working directly in the disaster zone.

 

[borrofburi]

Apparently japan has fallen out of our national consciousness already (or not... I really don't pay attention to the news much)... Whatever happened to that nuclear facility?

 

[televator]

Apparently japan has fallen out of our national consciousness already (or not... I really don't pay attention to the news much)... Whatever happened to that nuclear facility?

Huh? Last I checked it was still a big deal, but maybe that's because I live in in AZ and am going to SoCal for the weekend....where the fallout has a lot of people worried -- myself included.

The gov says it won't be anything deadly but I think they're forgetting to add "yet" to the end of that claim. Radiation exposure doesn't have to kill you instantly, but it can increase chances for cancer or other ailments down the line. :|

 

[kenandkids]

The gov says it won't be anything deadly but I think they're forgetting to add "yet" to the end of that claim. Radiation exposure doesn't have to kill you instantly, but it can increase chances for cancer or other ailments down the line. :|

I think that there is a great deal of fear-mongering and sensationalism happening that is making people especially worried. So far, the repair and clean-up is progressing much like the actual scientists in Japan said it would. Not that it isn't serious, but not half as serious as the media is making it seem.

If I hear "nuclear explosion" coupled with "fallout crossing the pacific" one more time...

 

[Shaedys]

Apparently the radiation is about 1000 mSv/hour
After an exposure of a single hour to that, "Some people feel nausea and loss of appetite; bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen damaged."
Realising that radiation is at ground zero that still sounds severe.

 

[Undeath]

Apparently the radiation is about 1000 mSv/hour

Do you have a source for that? The sources I've found report a spike to that level Wednesday, but say the levels fell during the day, and are down to the order of hundreds of microSv to a few mSv per hour at the moment.

(Source 1, Source 2 for Wednesday's Radiation level, Source for Current levels.)

 

[Shaedys]

Wikipedia:

Media reported 1,000 mSv/h close to the leaking reactor, with radiation levels subsequently dropping back to 800-600 millisieverts.[11]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/15/501364/main20043621.shtml

 

[FaithlessThinker]

Japan is technologically advanced and will be very quick in recovering from this disaster. Yes, sadly the lives that were lost can't be replaced.

Imagine how the matters would have been if this disaster hit an under-developed country.

 

[Undeath]

Wikipedia:

Media reported 1,000 mSv/h close to the leaking reactor, with radiation levels subsequently dropping back to 800-600 millisieverts.[11]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/15/501364/main20043621.shtml

The same as the first link I posted. As far as I can gather, those were the levels that prompted the evacuation, and the levels have dropped considerably since then (2-3 orders of magnitude based on the reports I noted, as well as Wikipedia's articles), so I think it's a bit misleading when you said that those were the current levels.