tbs just reported that the cooling system of the nuclear thingy number 3 has now also failed.

no.1's situation is now stable as it's being cooled by seawater though.

Oh icecream, thanks for the list!

I wanted to find one like this, but was to lazy.

Thanks to Cranks's card tweak http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=7398 I made these words into cards in no time. Time for reviews before listening to the news!

IceCream Wrote:i keep hearing a word like ほわいん or ほあいん　but i can't work out what it is, does anyone know?

It's the 保安院, aka the 原子力安全・保安院, Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency; NISA. Wikipedia page: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BF%9D%E...9%E9%99%A2

thanks Eikyu!!!

cool, glad you found it useful Jettyke, you probably also want 安否. a lot of it is repeating, so we can learn a lot by watching, i think...

IceCream Wrote:thanks Eikyu!!!

cool, glad you found it useful Jettyke, you probably also want 安否. a lot of it is repeating, so we can learn a lot by watching, i think...

Thanks for the list IceCream I also added all prefectures and their capitals to my deck, this should make news more comprehensible.

When I first posted the link there were 2000 entries. Now there's 71600: http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en - Hopefully all of those people are safe somewhere.

IceCream Wrote:thanks Eikyu!!!

cool, glad you found it useful Jettyke, you probably also want 安否. a lot of it is repeating, so we can learn a lot by watching, i think...

Yeah, that's what I thought! I think we will hear those same words repeated every hour like until a week from now

Translating in English now, on the reactor: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv

thanks for the link nestor

Oh oh! What I remembered!

I played one day a game called "カルタ" with my Japanese friends one day.
In the game there was said a hiragana, and the person who finds the said hiragana card from the pile/row or something gets the card. And who gets the most cards, wins.

Somewhy I won the Japanese many times, and was quite good.

And this made me come up with an idea! I will use the same strategy that I used for winning for learning new words! from ice creams list. As soon as I will hear a word that sounds like on from the pile, I will have to find it from the list. Perfect!
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But maybe it's just more fun to write the words down and check them in rikaichan

沿岸/coast
被災地ーArea of disaster
被害
災害
予備費・Emergencyfunds
規模
再建・rebuilding
現象・Phenomenon
防止・Prevention

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Talking about freaky...

Christchurch Earthquake Showing the sand liquefaction process with vibration

There is no reason to add this vocabulary to any kind of study list. Just watch the news as it happens every morning. For the next week you will be exposed to all this vocabulary enough that you will know it.
FNN news clips with transcripts

bodhisamaya Wrote:There is no reason to add this vocabulary to any kind of study list. Just watch the news as it happens every morning. For the next week you will be exposed to all this vocabulary enough that you will know it.
FNN news clips with transcripts

very true.

Question to those who live in Japan like me: Anybody thinking about leaving the country ASAP??

It is interesting reading the comments by Japanese people watching the TBS stream. It is a look into actual chat-room conversation used for serious topics rather than the normal meaningless dribble found on most social sites.

chochajin Wrote:Question to those who live in Japan like me: Anybody thinking about leaving the country ASAP??

If I were living on the east coast of the Tohoku region, I would be moving out of the area, but there is no reason to overreact at this point and leave the country.

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Here Is The Earthquake Warning System Japan Spent $1 Billion To Build

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/tsunami-j...z1GRFoifxU

does anyone know what happens after an earthquake like this?

what happens to the people whose houses are gone now? Do they have to live in shelters until insurance companies pay out? Then what, do they try to find a new house somewhere? Or do they still own the land where their houses were?

who clears all that rubble and mess? will it be the people who live in the area, or people employed to clear it? if so, who employs them? and where do they move all that rubble to?!?

In germany they made artificial hills out of the rubble. I'm pretty sure most people probably own the land the properties were on,my family does, and they have to go somewhere until their houses are rebuilt so a shelter or friends and family is likely. Along the lines of who cleans up I'm not sure probably government hired/employed contractors and volunteers.

Earthquakes are common in Japan, and the homeless population is among the smallest in the world, so they seem to have a system set up to help people restart their lives after such an event. I was told by Japanese staff where I work that the people who have no job to go to now will still be paid by their companies. The Kobe quake was not so long ago, and they recovered amazingly fast from that.

From what I hear, they can clear out and rebuild the rubble in 6months-1year because of their fast response.

More earthquakes expected in Japan

Big quake could be part of a string of aftershocks, say geologists.

“‘Although certainly very big, today's quake was not totally unexpected," says John McCloskey, a geophysicist at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, UK. "Technically, it was in fact an aftershock of the weaker quake earlier in the week — even though it may sound odd that an aftershock can be stronger than the main shock.’

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‘There is a strong interaction of quakes along a subduction zone, and we can certainly expect a number of major aftershocks in the next weeks,’ he says. ‘Some may be as large as, or even stronger than, the quake that last month devastated Christchurch in New Zealand. And chances are that another very large shock could occur to the south near Tokyo.’”

I wonder if Osaka is safe as I wanted to go there next week. Right now I'm far away from Tokyo/Osaka and even farer away from the original epicenter...

It seems Osaka is relatively very safe

If I lived anywhere along the eastern coast of Japan, I would be nervous sleeping at night. Getting caught in a Tsunami is more dangerous than the actual earthquake. If the Sendai quake happened at 2am rather than 2pm when people were sleeping, the casualties would have been much greater.