Amazing comment from japanese quake

[pgkevet]

Jeez that is/was something..but in between all that one has to marvel at this commentary... read in a slow laconic voice:

"I've lived in Japan 27years and, man, this was the strongest quake I've felt. You could look across the street and see the high-rises swaying. I reckon the construction worker down the road on the tower crane has got a few issues to work out"

[Nick B]

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[B]"Tsunami Alert for New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and others. Waves expected over the next few hours, caused by 8.9 earthquake in Japan."[/B]


Oh no,just seen this on google HP :(

[Eckchaz]

I know.. seen it on the news this morning.. feel for all the people in the far east.. they have not had a good year.. someones trying to tell us something :(

[Rotorhead]

[QUOTE=Eckchaz;627016]someones trying to tell us something :([/QUOTE]

Don't live in an area with active fault lines if you can avoid it?

[R1stu]

ITs bad I really feel for all the folks out there! Lucky so far that so few people have died! ITs also going to affect trips to and from NZ/OZ and also orders from the far east I wreckon.

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[coptermanic]

Have been to Japan loads of times in the past, and must have experienced at least 4 earthquakes. If any nation can deal with this, the Japanese will. The rest of the world, be there just in case.

[ChickenHawk]

[QUOTE=Rotorhead;627065]Don't live in an area with active fault lines if you can avoid it?[/QUOTE]

....and try not to do too many underground nuclear weapons tests either......'cos I reckon they don't help much in the earthquake scheme of things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[pgkevet]

Some terrifying images coming through from japan....seeing that wave carrying debris inland so far.. and not just the immediate damage that's going to pollute square miles of lush farmland that'll take years to clean back...
Also wrth utting in perspective that japan is laways ready and fnancially capable of recovering whereas the poor sods in Haiti are still struggling to stay alive after 2 years....

[Rotorhead]

They're saying the cooling has failed on a nuclear reactor at one of their plants.

[Brian Gifford]

[QUOTE=coptermanic;627100]Have been to Japan loads of times in the past, and must have experienced at least 4 earthquakes. If any nation can deal with this, the Japanese will. The rest of the world, be there just in case.[/QUOTE]

Been there a couple of times, and what freaked me out was, I'm on the 20th floor of this hotel in Yokohama, and being a good traveller, I start reading the "In case of fire" stuff - Then, of course, the next one down is "In case of earthquake" :svengo::svengo:

[simplyraptor]

I don't think the scale of this disaster can be truly taken in at the moment, if the pictures on the news are anything to go by, the human tragedy of this disaster will unfold over the next few days for sure :(

[Eckchaz]

Been reading up on the old reichter scale... this is the 3rd worse in the last 20 years.. aparently.. the "great" earthquake happens once a year!.. the scale goes up to 10 and nothing has been recorded on or past that.. it is quite shocking as this quake was 20 times more powerfull than the New Zealand one last month!

[tiddler]

I Have never seen anything as dramatic as this in my lifetime. It has got to be the most graphical display of how nature can just wipe away human life I have ever witnessed :( and it really does make all our little heli related problems pale into insignificance.

[Sqwidge]

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Just found this from last year, odd that its in the same area sort of and the guy who appreciates nature is from Sendai

[coptermanic]

You also notice that all the other issues, like Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, Iraq, Afghanistan [yes, remember there] price of fuel, Prince Andy's dalliances, world economics, Rooney's elbow, just pale into insignificance.............................