this is what i feared would happen when i was watching it last night. my mom and i have been talking about this all day.

EARTH QUAKE NUKE POWER PLANT GOJIRZZAAAA!!!!!

oh wait, didnt read that awesome post by Gow Jomo?

Radiation wont leak out like what you're thinking.

am i the only one who suspects the death toll figures are being grossly underestimated?

i mean after watching the different footage... there is no ****ing way this tsunami hasn't claimed tens of thousands

i remember with the indonesia tsunami the figures started extremely low, then in a week went up to 250k...

if the final figures from this remain under 10k i'll be damn impressed

It's just now getting light out, so they can get to some of those hardest hit areas.

Japan issues atomic energy emergency after earthquake - Yahoo! News

Oh crap. F*ck the China Syndrome!

well yeah, its kind of hard to count bodies when they're trapped in rubble or swept away with the current

and i don't think counting bodies is their main priority right now

i have a feeling the PM is thinking this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwNvIM2W9Aw


*edit- someone edit his voice to say, "**** YOU EARTHQUAKE and, **** YOU TSUNAMI!!!"

Well if anyone knows how to deal with radiation sickness its japan

2153: The pressure inside one of the six Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant has built up because the cooling system was damaged by the earthquake. The heat produced by the nuclear reaction inside the core still needs to be dissipated even after a shutdown. If the outage in the cooling system persists, eventually radiation could leak out into the environment, and, in the worst case, could cause a reactor meltdown, experts say.

I'm no nuclear scientist, but that doesnt sound good...

They have factories in other countries like most (all?) Japanese auto manufacturers, your future purchasing decisions have not been affected.

Yep, the dead are pretty low-maintenance in the short term. Better to worry about the living.

CNN is streaming NHK.

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

:lol: California Man Swept Into the Sea By Tsunami - ABC News

I think 1,000 people dead is a very low estimate after watching the morning helicopter shots on NHK. :-\

What I'm trying to figure out is the time between the quake and the tsunami.

The quake was at 14:46 (2:56pm) local time, which I assume is JST.
A wave was seen at 3:55pm JST flooding Sendai Airport.

Was there an hour between the quake and the tsunami hitting?
Hopefully they had an hour to get the hell out of dodge, and use their tsunami drills to their advantage.

and we have a winner

So is LGBR guy gonna leave the forums like he said after the death toll hits 1k+?

yeah it was around 20-60 minutes from the quake to the tsunami hitting various areas

Kyodo now saying 3 reactors have lost cooling function...

Amazing pics.

Earthquake in Japan - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

i wonder what astronomical figure the damages are going to cost insurers

2252: The Tokyo Electric Power Company has said the cooling systems of three reactors at second nuclear power plant, Fukushima-Daini, are malfunctioning, according to the Kyodo news agency. The plant is 11km (7 miles) to the south of Fukushima-Daiichi, where the cooling system one of its reactors is not working and pressure is rising.

URGENT: Cooling system fails at Fukushima No. 2 plant | Kyodo News

some bold text here, but if you continue to read, the text is not bold anymore over here. probably not as important as the bold text.

its going to boil off. if they cant cool it down, the fuel will melt.

:lol:

man, talk about a long and unlucky day Japan is having.

We are all so ****ed, the ocean is draining into the earths core.

Whirlpool forms after Japan earthquake - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

This is the first plant:

2310: More from the Tokyo Electric Power Company: It says the ability to control pressure in some of the reactors at Fukushima-Daini has been lost. Pressure is stable inside the reactors, but rising in the containment vessels, a company spokesman says.


Also, they are going to release the containment vessel valve to relieve some of the pressure.

this is worse than the tishnik massacre :[

ur mom will melt

They are venting the radioactive steam in last ditch effort to cool the cascading fuel. The expert on MSNBC just said they they have an hour to control it or restore power to the cooling systems or it becomes unmanageable.

****

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/sites/def.../whirlpool.jpg

Lots of photos

Seen from above, the awesome scale of Japan's destruction (big photo gallery) - Boing Boing

It wasn't an Earthquake, Chuck Norris just forgot to put on sneakers before jumping rope.

:)