Major Earthquake In Japan

[Evilution]

if that blue mass is the area of land that slipped down im not surprised the earth moved 15 cm

[Shakul]

Well to be honest no one really knows what's going on, I think we will realise once things finally get somewhat better and the real cleanup can start. Some elderly made some well dazed slightly odd remarks of "I thought we were being bombed/what happened?" So yea, alot of people are just dazed and confused.

Though the situation is getting better, aftershocks are getting heavier again, damaging even more.

[DeltrusDisc]

6.0 just hit off the coast east of Honshu, Japan. Worst they've seen in about 10 hours.

Sunday March 13 2011, 11:37:31 UTC 19 minutes ago off the east coast of Honshu, Japan 6.0

[Shakul]

Update Apperantly BBC France tells people to evacuate the Tokyo Metropolis area.... wait wut?

[DeltrusDisc]

BBC France trying to make predictions now?

[Pomm]

BBC says here - Tokyo Electric says planned power outage to last till end of April, according to Kyodo news. (But better ask Shakul for confirmation, seems a very long time)

[Shakul]

All I know is, I am staying till the emperor tells to GTFO. har har.

TEPCO is running rolling blackouts on parts of Tokyo, changing the parts every 3 hours to conserve energy, to use that energy to save the nuclear plants, how long this will take they haven't said because they "lost" their reports and plans....

[Lao_tzu]

BBC France trying to make predictions now?

Don't worry the French always run at the first sign of trouble

[Shamslam]

Gotta love France...?

They still can't get over showing the explosion and talking about Chernobyl 2.0 here. I love the media. lol

So how bad are the newer earthquakes? and are any officials actually saying anything about it?

[Nabol]

Just wanted to say thanks for all the updates. I haven't read everything yet (at page 84 atm) but I wanted to give my 2 cents.

While reading through some of the links posted in the thread, I stumbled across these and I thiought they were mildly useful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Se...ke_and_tsunami
http://weathernews.jp/quake/

[Lao_tzu]

Reports of the coast road, Route 45? impassable in places - some areas of the road underwater.

Seems the BBC have woken up got a few people on the scene and are providing reasnobly up to date info.

[komi54]

been away for a few hours whats going on with the reactors?

[Shakul]

Yea western news reporters seem too scared to travel trough debris and such, for example Fuji and TBS have reporters standing in ruined towns, just walking around. That's the big difference.

The recent quakes were not a big problem, but they are getting heavier.

---------- Post added 2011-03-13 at 01:16 PM ----------

Current confirmed status of the nuclear power plants

Fukushima No1. Nuclear Plant

First reactor: Apperantly stable

Number 3: Pressure rising, damage unkown, problem with the cooling.

Reactor 4, 5 and 6. Were shut down, but closely monitored.

Fukushima Plant No2.

Is down, sea water coolant not functioning yet.

[Ookami-San]

Finished.....reading....101 pages..
/faint.

Nah, seriously thought, Kudos to Shakul for keeping us updated!
Thanks, and hope you're safe.

[Lao_tzu]

The dude on the bbc has got his balls out again - showing us how buildings move during earthquakes. lol

[Marston]

Shakul, have you heard anything about the emperor yet? Or still nothing, whether he is alive, dead or noone knows anything.

[Shakul]

Still nothing, it's starting to worry me.

[Cattaclysmic]

Gotta love France...?

They still can't get over showing the explosion and talking about Chernobyl 2.0 here. I love the media. lol

So how bad are the newer earthquakes? and are any officials actually saying anything about it?

well its kinda nuclear reactor explosion... and europe has alrdy had one of those... and japan has alrdy had nuclear explosions... Explosions in themselves arent good

[Adurna]

I've seen lots of links to wikipedia in here for sourcing. Dont trust wiki as a reliable source, ANYONE can edit information on it.
^_^

[K0tY]

well its kinda nuclear reactor explosion... and europe has alrdy had one of those... and japan has alrdy had nuclear explosions... Explosions in themselves arent good

Like 40 pages ago, theres post that says that there is not any EXPLOSION when the core will melt down, there will be just huge leak of radioactive material whitch will cause effects like atom bomb but without explosion just the radioactivity. Its not like Chernobyl, and cant be, they use diferent kind of nuclear power plants.