Earthquake <---> Animals
Animals <---> Earthquake

Animals!

Here is a view of tsunami from a ship:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fqyOpqnJyw

vix86 wrote:

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

That is so awesome.

radiation is everywhere, can't avoid these types of things

We left Tokyo last Wednesday morning to spend some time down in Fukuoka with my fiancé's family. Though there have been reports of water and food contamination we are thinking of heading back on Thursday since things are looking pretty stable. Any thoughts? How are people living in Tokyo doing?

captal wrote:

We left Tokyo last Wednesday morning to spend some time down in Fukuoka with my fiancé's family. Though there have been reports of water and food contamination we are thinking of heading back on Thursday since things are looking pretty stable. Any thoughts? How are people living in Tokyo doing?

I just got back from Nagasaki yesterday and have noticed that food stocking seems to have been picked up since late last week. Although, it was difficult to find toilet paper (finally got it ).  I kinda wish we had less food on the shelves though, so that they would divert some of their resources to helping out Tohoku. Tokyo is ... pampered ...

My biggest worry right now is the complete lack of explanation of the gray smoke from yesterday accompanied with white smoke (steam perhaps) that lasted until even this morning. My thinking is that the gray smoke could have been the result of electrical fires while setting up electricity, but that would not explain the radiation release. Just so ya know, the radiation levels have picked up again following the smoke releases. Also, if my guess were correct, I would expect them to say so. All we are currently getting is "it's being investigated." Also, the wind was reported as "easy to change" this afternoon, but is currently headed north east I think.

Also, geologists just warned us of the high possibility of large 6+ aftershocks still possible in the pacific ocean area. Wow, while typing that, I just felt a 3 aftershock that hit off the coast of Miyagi (4).

That's the story from the ground in Tokyo

Edit:
I just want to add that when I say "Tokyo is pampered," I mean the 23 wards, since Tama is less fortunate as far as blackouts are concerned. I also don't know how stocked shelves are in Tama either.

Last edited by dat5h (2011 March 22, 4:45 am)

You guys be careful...

Cluster eruption of large quakes off the coast of Japan

It's on USGS too.

Glad you enjoy the blog title. I find the blog posts there not much more sensationalistic than your average mainstream media, so ymmv. *wink*

TEPCO sure loves false inspections:

Japan Extended Reactor’s Life, Despite Warning

"the company admitted that it had failed to inspect 33 pieces of equipment related to the cooling systems, including water pumps and diesel generators, at the power station’s six reactors "

The older scandal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepco#Scandal

Would the situation have been different if everything had been in perfect working order?

Last edited by Eikyu (2011 March 22, 12:06 pm)

ファブリス wrote:

ghinzdra wrote:

OMG Did you read what this guy wrote ?????!  (...)

penny wrote:

OMG The Exctintion Protocol, could this be leading up to another MEGA QUAKE?

Lol, did you troll there? :p

The blog author has his views, I'm mostly interested in that it keeps track of major geological changes around the world. Okay... I'll admit I do enjoy a little seasoning of DOOM here and there. ^_^

Do you know all the words to the DOOM song?

ファブリス wrote:

No   (no idea what it is).

Look up Invader Zim and Doom song and you should find something on youtube.

Not out of the woods yet, perhaps, but you can see the groundwork being laid for the post-hysteria narrative. “Japan barely survives nuclear crisis despite corporate corruption and inept government, your favourite incisive news team was there the whole way, is nuclear energy safe? Continue viewing as we explore what went so terribly wrong and we make so-and-so pay... ”

Now I've become guilty of my own tangential nuclear obsession, e.g. the horrible ‘journalism’.

Last edited by nest0r (2011 March 22, 4:05 pm)

Good old TV-Japan... now for some reason is showing LOTS of old Koshien baseball.

WHY?!?!?

Oh, also random cut-ins telling people "Don't eat the following foods, they're radioactive. Maybe. So is some of the water, so stay out of the ocean. Maybe. But everything is under control. Sort of. Now watch some Koshien."

Then more old Koshien reruns for 4 hours.

So surreal.

EDIT: Come to think of it, maybe NHK's Tokyo office is having to do their blackout? That may explain the weirdness.

Last edited by rich_f (2011 March 23, 1:33 am)