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Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:05 pm**

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/another-h ... 6019894904

8.8 magnitude earthquake has hit Japan, triggering a 10m high tsunami.

So far theres been at least one death, and tsunami warnings have been issued as far away as Chile. Have a mate and her mother holidaying in Hawaii atm and they're on high tsunami alert - a tsunami is forcast to hit there in about 2.5 hours and they're packed and ready to evacuate to higher ground.

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:24 pm**

26 confirmed dead

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:35 pm**

Seeing the aerial footage on the BBC here of the tsunami pushing inland and taking buildings and traffic with it I suspect that figure will rise considerably

Doesn't 'therisingblues' live over there??? Hope he and his family are nowhere near any of this.

Regards
JAS

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:40 pm**

The footage of the tsunami just rolling in wiping everything out is just amazing.

The tsunami is expected to wipe out some small islands.

We can be thankful for Japan's superstrict building codes meaning there's been small structural damage caused directly by the earthquake. The real damage, as we're seeing now, is from the tsunami's

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:50 pm**

Amazingly this was 160 times more powerful than the Christchurch quake.

And a tsunami to go with it.

I hope the Japanese people come out of this in the best way possible.

All the best Japan.

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:52 pm**

I wonder if it was triggered by this smaller one yesterday in China...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Yunnan_earthquake

Regards
JAS

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:52 pm**

Tsunami is a japanese word. i think this event explains why. any earthquake is devastating.

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:22 pm**

Fire at Japanese nuclear power plant

A utility company in northeastern Japan has reported a fire in a turbine building of a nuclear power plant after an earthquake shook the region.
Tohoku Electric Power Co. says smoke was observed coming out of the building, which is separate from the plant's reactor, and the cause is under investigation.

The plant is in Miyagi prefecture.

The company says there have been no reports of radioactive leaks or injuries.

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:25 pm**

Looks like there are some huge oil-tank fires too.

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:36 pm**

Various news and cctv video footage on YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_t ... an+tsunami

Regards
JAS

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:54 pm**

A delegation of Labor MP's (including member for Kingston Amanda Rishworth) are stuck on a bullet train but are safe)

*Amanda on Sky News now, live from stricken bullet train. Reporting they'll be stuck on the train for some time.

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:57 pm**

If anyone is in any doubt about how big this one is...

The British Geological Survey tells the BBC that the Japanese earthquake is the 6th largest ever recorded (i.e. since 1900).

Also appears to have been a 7.2 quake on almost the exact same spot 2 days ago...

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/highlight ... h2011.html

One hell of a tsunami warning list on there too...hope they've grossly overestimated it.

Regards
JAS

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:00 pm**

JAS wrote:If anyone is in any doubt about how big this one is...

The British Geological Survey tells the BBC that the Japanese earthquake is the 6th largest ever recorded (i.e. since 1900).

Also appears to have been a 7.2 quake on almost the exact same spot 2 days ago...

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/highlight ... h2011.html

One hell of a tsunami warning list on there too...hope they've grossly overestimated it.

Regards
JAS

That's one list, even Antartica's on it!

Death toll now 32

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:02 pm**

was this expected?

i didnt hear it on the 6pm news, i saw it on TT...

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:02 pm**

It has been predicted 2012 is coming :shock:

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:04 pm**

The BBC News website now has this...note that times are GMT not local...

Regards
JAS

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:06 pm**

locky801 wrote:It has been predicted 2012 is coming

i read in the advertiser - i think in december that people think the world will end in may :shock:

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:11 pm**

JAS wrote:The BBC News website now has this...note that times are GMT not local...

Regards
JAS

Just to add to this map JAS has put up, the BOM is still advising there are no current tsunami warnings for Australia

http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:12 pm**

JAS wrote:Seeing the aerial footage on the BBC here of the tsunami pushing inland and taking buildings and traffic with it I suspect that figure will rise considerably

Doesn't 'therisingblues' live over there??? Hope he and his family are nowhere near any of this.

Regards
JAS

Theri was the first person I thought of, the footage I've seen is just terrible, I hope we hear from him soon

On the lighter side (if you can call it that I guess), in one of the news reports, they had just shown the first lot of youtube clips and after the clip, the announcer said something to the effect of "I'm surprised that even through such a powerful earthquake, people didn't think of their lives, they instead got out their cameras and took this amazing footage"

and I said to my mate " whaddya mean he's surprised, they're Japanese!"

Posted: **Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:15 pm**

CCTV footage of an airport being inundated by the tsunami

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