Author Topic: Japan struck by massive earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale) (Read 14322 times)

yunhua98 · « **Reply #30 on:** March 15, 2011, 10:38:10 am »

Thats not good. I'm starting to kinda worry for 2012, despite all these jokes... And theres supposed to be a major earthquake on the New Madrid Fault every 200 years...

btw, for the ritcher scale level, its actually ~9.2, but Earthquakes aren't allowed above 9.0, so its official level is 9.0, by the time it reached Japan, they estimate about 8.8-8.9, and they report it as that just to make it look better.

And I agree with all thats been said, I hope Japan recovers and receives as much help if not more than what Haiti received, at least they didn't have a tsunami... And I hope the death toll stops rising...

Stefan Bauwens · « **Reply #31 on:** March 15, 2011, 10:41:06 am »

From wikipedia:
Maya calender:
Misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is the basis for a New Age belief that a cataclysm will take place on December 21, 2012. December 21, 2012 is simply the day that the calendar will go to the next baktun.
baktun:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baktun

There's ofcourse always a chance the world ends in 2012, but not for the reasons of the maya.

yunhua98 · « **Reply #32 on:** March 15, 2011, 10:43:21 am »

The Aztecs predicted their Doom, with Cortez and whatnot.

And earthquakes are happening a lot more now...

* yunhua98 goes off rambling with paranoia...

fb39ca4 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 15, 2011, 03:56:20 pm »

Wait, earthquakes are not allowed to be over magnitude 9.0? Why

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #34 on:** March 15, 2011, 03:58:44 pm »

Actually the Indonesia/Sri Lanka earthquake that caused a tsunami in 2004 and 300000 deaths was 9.5. It just occured in the ocean. Strong earthquakes often occurs underwater. But yeah last year there were lots of Earthquakes. It stopped after this Summer, but then it started again. I hope the nuclear threat in Japan won't get too bad. I think people should really try to find different sources of energy or something, especially with what happened at Chernobyl.

yunhua98 · « **Reply #35 on:** March 15, 2011, 04:05:56 pm »

Quote from: fb39ca4 on March 15, 2011, 03:56:20 pm

Wait, earthquakes are not allowed to be over magnitude 9.0? Why

people are just afraid to report it like that, from what I've heard.

Deep Toaster · « **Reply #36 on:** March 18, 2011, 07:35:30 pm »

Wow, they're taking huge risks to contain the thing: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/18/134665531/nuclear-workers-take-risks-for-the-public-good

willrandship · « **Reply #37 on:** March 18, 2011, 08:29:20 pm »

I heard that there will be no way to cool the waste, so they're going to encase it in concrete to prevent leaks instead of trying.

And, from what I heard, they upped it to a 9 after the fact.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #38 on:** March 19, 2011, 02:54:15 am »

Yeah it seems like they're gonna do like Chernobyl. I hope that thing won't overheat, though, or something else. So far it seems less bad than Chernobyl, but I hope it won't escalate more.

BOB! · « **Reply #39 on:** April 03, 2011, 03:16:28 am »

20 KILLED IS BS its like about 20,000.
but i have no idea why you guys think its such a HUGE disaster!
Look,no offense but its only a tiny bit of people and a pwuny patch of land! there are 10⁹X6 people sot thats bsically some random citty with one person dead in it.
besides supernove explosions blow off 10⁴⁵ joules of energy or10²⁸x the average atom bomb.
of course no number is big, they are about a gazillion numbers bigger than a googleplex even!
earthquakes do 10⁶ times as mucha a nuke.
and its only humans who died ,and there were going to be gone anyway. they were gone for billions of years before.

z80man · « **Reply #40 on:** April 03, 2011, 03:23:24 am »

Quote from: BOB! on April 03, 2011, 03:16:28 am

20 KILLED IS BS its like about 20,000.
but i have no idea why you guys think its such a HUGE disaster!
Look,no offense but its only a tiny bit of people and a pwuny patch of land! there are 10⁹X6 people sot thats bsically some random citty with one person dead in it.
besides supernove explosions blow off 10⁴⁵ joules of energy or10²⁸x the average atom bomb.
of course no number is big, they are about a gazillion numbers bigger than a googleplex even!
earthquakes do 10⁶ times as mucha a nuke.
and its only humans who died ,and there were going to be gone anyway. they were gone for billions of years before.

I find your post extremely offensive to those who are currently suffering in Japan or have family or friends there. I'm asking you to please edit the content of your post and to be more considerate to other people and lives

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #41 on:** April 03, 2011, 03:44:29 am »

Hmm, that was one big troll up there...

Anyway he's gone because he was warned and banned for spamming before (outside randomness) and borderline trollish-ness, and now he spams outside randomness and now this post. He has no interest in contributing anything constructive to the forums and only comes here to post trolls that we can barely even dechiper, kinda like Verdant/Parsimony and Thegame/i am a troll.

Bye bye BOB! (well... until your next account I guess

)

Ashbad · « **Reply #42 on:** April 03, 2011, 08:29:52 am »

BOB!, what if it killed you? Instead of being 10⁴ innocent people, it would just be 10⁰ trolls. That would bring 10²⁸ peace back to this site.

When human life is an issue, one death is too much.

ACagliano · « **Reply #43 on:** April 03, 2011, 12:22:05 pm »

As much as the loss of life in Japan is, was, and will always be terrible, the immediate casualty caused by the quake and tsunami will not be the end of suffering there if there is a nuclear meltdown. For that reason, I hope God (or whoever they believe in) watches over them.

FYI: Other facts about the quake. It moved Japan by 8ft; sped up the earth's rotation, making days like a microsecond shorter; and I heard once that it actually fractured the tectonic plate that Japan sits on.

[Edit] @Ashbad, we may not like what people say, but we don't have the right to wish evil on them.

[Edit] @BOB, one life lost is a tragedy. Remember that. If a member of your family died, would you be saying "It's only one person" then?

[Edit] I have seen evidence of weird stuff going on all over the world (not just in Japan). I don't know what is going on, but something is happening. I can post evidence (not in this topic, tho).

Munchor · « **Reply #44 on:** April 03, 2011, 12:26:17 pm »

Quote from: z80man on April 03, 2011, 03:23:24 am

Quote from: BOB! on April 03, 2011, 03:16:28 am
20 KILLED IS BS its like about 20,000.
but i have no idea why you guys think its such a HUGE disaster!
Look,no offense but its only a tiny bit of people and a pwuny patch of land! there are 10⁹X6 people sot thats bsically some random citty with one person dead in it.
besides supernove explosions blow off 10⁴⁵ joules of energy or10²⁸x the average atom bomb.
of course no number is big, they are about a gazillion numbers bigger than a googleplex even!
earthquakes do 10⁶ times as mucha a nuke.
and its only humans who died ,and there were going to be gone anyway. they were gone for billions of years before.
I find your post extremely offensive to those who are currently suffering in Japan or have family or friends there. I'm asking you to please edit the content of your post and to be more considerate to other people and lives

Seconded.

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