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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2011, 03:01:19 am »
It's kinda creepy...all of a sudden...
What's really ominous it the san andreas fault is way overdue for its earthquake, there's supposed to be a major one every 100 or so years IIRC
I think it's called loma prieda.
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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #16 on: March 12, 2011, 03:17:40 am »
Yeah true. TO be fair I knew Japan was gonna have a huge earthquake anytime soon or in the next few years, because they didn't have a huge one (by Japan standards) for years. 14 years ago there was a 5.2 earthquake at Cap-Rouge (not too far from here) and while it wasn't strong but the shaking was rather scary. It was worse north of the river, apparently, due to the different type of rock.
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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #17 on: March 12, 2011, 12:59:37 pm »
Damn, I have friends in Japan. I hope they're alright. To make things worse, the damn GOP is wanting to cut aid to Japan because they claim "we can't afford it". Japan is one of our best allies imo. >:(

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Late last night, Quebec was invaded by a group calling themselves, "Omnimaga". Not much is known about these mysterious people except that they all carried calculators of some kind and they all seemed to converge on one house in particular. Experts estimate that the combined power of their fabled calculators is greater than all the worlds super computers put together. The group seems to be holding out in the home of a certain DJ_O, who the Omnimagians claim to be their founder. Such power has put the world at a standstill with everyone waiting to see what the Omnimagians will do...

Wait... This just in, the Omnimagians have sent the UN a list of demands that must be met or else the world will be "submitted to the wrath of Netham45's Lobster Army". Such demands include >9001 crates of peanuts, sacrificial blue lobsters, and a wide assortment of cherry flavored items. With such computing power stored in the hands of such people, we can only hope these demands are met.

In the wake of these events, we can only ask, Why? Why do these people make these demands, what caused them to gather, and what are their future plans...

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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2011, 01:09:06 pm »
WUT I just calculated the energy of the earthquake in kWh: turns out to be 3.92371539*10^11 kilowatt hours!!
And HOMER: I hope they are all right...
I also hope that it turns out right with that nuclear plant that is on fire, and that its not gonna be like Chernobyl...

EDIT:
It looks like its turning out well:
Quote from: Elsevier.nl (Dutch magazine)   CRAPPY GOOGLE TRANSLATION

'No leakage after Japan nuclear explosion'
Saturday, March 12, 2011 3:13 p.m.

It seems that no leakage occurred in the reactor of the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima, 250 kilometers north of Tokyo.

There is probably no radiation released, says the Japanese government
- LATEST NEWS -
3:16 p.m. hours: Of about 9,500 inhabitants of the Japanese city Minamisanriku still lacking any trace. It is nearly half the inhabitants of the town.

1:32 p.m. hours: The Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Saturday visited the area most affected . Can fly for hours with a helicopter including the nuclear power plant in Fukushima.

12:11 pm: Japanese rescue in the coastal town Rikuzentakata hundreds of corpses found .

11:26 pm: The evacuation area around the power plant has grown from a circle of ten to twenty kilometers of a circle around the plant.

That the Japanese government reported Saturday.

At the nuclear plant was caused by the tsunami an explosion , making the roof and walls of the building collapsed. Several employees were injured.

Radiation
"The nuclear reactor is surrounded by a steel casing, which in turn is surrounded by a concrete building," says a government spokesman.

"The concrete building has collapsed. We find that the steel casing is not exploded. " The housing is designed to in case of incidents that radiation is released .

Saturday Night (Dutch time) it was announced that the reactor might be working on a meltdown. This is the case if the reactor core due to lack of cooling is so hot that it melts into the ground, a nuclear disaster.

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The earthquake is the cooling of the reactor failed, causing the pressure in the reactor increases. If radioactive material released is probably blown out to sea.

Japanese who are around are summoned to remain indoors. Those who do venture out, a wet cloth for his or her mouth.
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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2011, 01:26:50 pm »
The translation is lolly, but I hope that is real and there really isn't any problem with the nuclear plant, I don't want another Chernbyl.

@HOMER: I also wish them good luck.

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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2011, 02:50:31 pm »
The GOP is the Republican party in the U.S. But lets try not to turn this into a discussion about politics.

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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #21 on: March 12, 2011, 03:16:32 pm »
For anyone who's interested/finds this useful: http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/

Apparently it actually works.




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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #22 on: March 12, 2011, 03:51:29 pm »
So far everyone I know doesn't think the situation is funny, and I'm glad to know that.  Even at the beginning of a Starcraft II semi-finals, one of the commentators said "Okay, so I know we do lots of joking here, but I'm being very serious right now.  Japan, we are really sorry about what happened, and we hope things will turn out all right."

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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #23 on: March 12, 2011, 08:17:48 pm »
The translation is lolly, but I hope that is real and there really isn't any problem with the nuclear plant, I don't want another Chernbyl.

@HOMER: I also wish them good luck.

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I found out today that he is alright, though due to the powerplant stuff it looks like he's evacuating.

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Wait... This just in, the Omnimagians have sent the UN a list of demands that must be met or else the world will be "submitted to the wrath of Netham45's Lobster Army". Such demands include >9001 crates of peanuts, sacrificial blue lobsters, and a wide assortment of cherry flavored items. With such computing power stored in the hands of such people, we can only hope these demands are met.

In the wake of these events, we can only ask, Why? Why do these people make these demands, what caused them to gather, and what are their future plans...

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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #24 on: March 12, 2011, 09:50:22 pm »
The GOP is the Republican party in the U.S. But lets try not to turn this into a discussion about politics.

exactly.  this is a disaster, a time for helping each other out and rebuilding -- not to argue over whether or not the Republicans are right.

anyways, yeah I believe it's kind of between an 8.8 and an 8.9, so just refer to it as either for now.  Also, we can only pray that the list of the dead will stay fixed.  The thing is, these tsunamis come in to shore at speeds up to 600 miles per hour -- almost the speed of a simple jet plane, a bullet, speed of sound etc.  A 1 foot wave will kill anything in it's way going at that speed.  I think Japan's was much slower than that, but the height of it makes it just as devastating.

Also, kinda on topic, apparently the larger the waves, the slower they go.  the fastest tsunami was around 3 inches high and went around 750 miles per hour, near India (died out in sea, was detected by instruments) and the highest ever was 1720 feet high (about 700 feet taller than the Eiffel tower, and comparable to the empire state building) in Alaska in the late 1800's, killed no one (though only went about 50 miles per hour)

Anyways, lets hope the best for Japan. 

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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #25 on: March 12, 2011, 10:30:53 pm »
The GOP is the Republican party in the U.S. But lets try not to turn this into a discussion about politics.

exactly.  this is a disaster, a time for helping each other out and rebuilding -- not to argue over whether or not the Republicans are right.
 
I agree I wasn't trying to start an argument or anything. I just think it's pathetic that we would even consider, no matter what party, not helping Japan to the fullest extent.

(To be clear I'm not trying to say anything political. My reaction would be the same no matter who said it.)

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Wait... This just in, the Omnimagians have sent the UN a list of demands that must be met or else the world will be "submitted to the wrath of Netham45's Lobster Army". Such demands include >9001 crates of peanuts, sacrificial blue lobsters, and a wide assortment of cherry flavored items. With such computing power stored in the hands of such people, we can only hope these demands are met.

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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #26 on: March 12, 2011, 11:19:57 pm »
I never knew that slower tsunamis were bigger, I thought they all went at around 500mph.

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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #27 on: March 13, 2011, 01:54:45 am »
I thought all tsunamis kinda slowed down when arriving. However even the slow ones can be devastating, because the shockwaves caused by the earthquake pushes more and more water behind the first wave and the 2nd wave is pushed by the second, and so on, so the water will not stop moving forward, unlike regular waves.

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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #28 on: March 15, 2011, 05:48:31 am »
800km/h i think it was but it slowed dramatically when it got to land about 50km/h. still disastrous, people had no chance of escaping, combined with the earthquake and 100+ aftershocks, unbelieveable. The satellite footage showed whole cities annhiliated! just a death land or something.

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Re: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale)
« Reply #29 on: March 15, 2011, 07:33:04 am »
UPDATE:
Again explosions in Fukushima-I Power Plant. Dangerous radiation is emitted from reactor 2. Temperature in reactors 5 and 6 is raising. People in a range of 20 kilometers are evacuated and people within 30 kilometers have to stay inside. 200,000 people are evacuated earlier.
The most problems are in reactor 2, where an explosion was last night. A very dangerous radiation leak was caused by this explosion.
This explosion was another type than the last two, the reason of this is not clear at the moment. Maybe is there damage at the reactor's pressurizer.
3 reactors are cooled with sea water to avoid a meltdown. According to the Japanese government that goes right so far.

more info at www.bbc.com
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