Double Earthquake!... and now an 8.8 Mag + Tsunami in Japan

[Chuft-Captain]

Three NZ search and rescue teams are on their way to Japan. I doubt that they will be many in number considering what they still have to contend with here, but they will do what they can to help.

Latest, I've heard is that there are fears of an impending meltdown at a nuclear power plant in the north of Japan whose cooling system has failed.

That is something our people will not be able to help with.
(NZ does not have any expertise in nuclear technology as NZ is nuclear free).

[Chuft-Captain]

Brings home how fortunate those of us who don't live within range of tectonically-active regions are.

Switzerland... so boring!

[ajtribick]

We do get some activity. Fairly rarely.

There was a magnitude ~6.5 one back in the 14th century

[Chuft-Captain]

Here's an article about a Kiwi who was in CHCH for the 6.3, and back home in Tokyo for the 8.8: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/4759883/Kiwi-escapes-Chch-and-Japan-quakes

and about the return of the Japanese USAR teams to Japan: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/japan-earthquake/4761635/Japanese-USAR-team-heads-home
I just want to thank these guys for what they did here to save lives in CHCH, and I feel very sorry for what they are going to encounter back home in Japan.

Now, a volcano has erupted in Indonesia: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/4760575/Indonesian-volcano-erupts
Could this be related?
Disaster Clusters: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/japan-earthquake/4761548/Disaster-clusters-keep-scientists-guessing

[ajtribick]

More bad things

Building nuclear power plants on a subduction zone always struck me as being a really bad idea...

[bh]

Pictures on TV are heartbreaking...

[Chuft-Captain]

Details of NZ response to this disaster: Japan-bound USAR team repaying Chch kindness

(The Japanese were one of the first countries to send USAR teams to Christchurch)

[t00fri]

Today the magnitude of the japanese quake was officially upgraded to M 9.0!!

Horrible....

Fridger

[Fenerit]

Geologists calculates that whether such a quake would have hit a big european country whatelse, 1/3 of the whole buildings should have been completely destroyed.

[Milosz21]

Earthquake in Japan was something what people who living there will remember for very long time. World will remember too.
Images and videos from there are breathtaking, my brain refuse accept thereof that my eyes see. We are only dust for mother nature, and nothing more.

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[Milosz21]

Some more pictures....

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Horrific...

[Reiko]

My mother and grandmother are coming to stay with us. They found some cracks in the house and don't feel safe there anymore.

[ajtribick]

Those are some of the most terrifying images I have seen. Definitely would think twice before living on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

[t00fri]

Milosz21,

the images about the quake in Japan that you copied from somewhere are very impressive. But for sure they are under copyright! So you and|or this forum might well encounter problems without inclusion of proper references... Moreover it is a matter of fairness to quote the origins/photographer/...

Fridger

[Milosz21]

Milosz21,
the images about the quake in Japan that you copied from somewhere are very impressive. But for sure they are under copyright! So you and|or this forum might well encounter problems without inclusion of proper references... Moreover it is a matter of fairness to quote the origins/photographer/...

This pictures what you see, you can find everywhere in Internet (Google and search Japan tsunami) on different pages, even on polish forum where i saw this pictures first time. So i m not expected any problems after show this pictures here.

My mother and grandmother are coming to stay with us. They found some cracks in the house and don't feel safe there anymore.

Are you from Japan? I hope you are okay and everyone in your family.