Earthquake (8.9magnitude) & Tsunami hits Tokyo

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Blacklight wrote: »

Terrible. At least the numbers of missing seem low, thankfully.

Thats because its too soon & bad comms.


Its a big event & the aftermath is still going on.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

And think of the impact too on our most doom-mongering poster. He's bound to find a link to the Mayan Calendar, global fuel prices and the Rothschilds. Surprised he's not been on yet. Isn't it about school lunchtime?

There's some guff on a thread in Discussion Time speculating whether a apparent "super moon" could have caused today's earthquake and tsunami.

Generali

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

There's some guff on a thread in Discussion Time speculating whether a apparent "super moon" could have caused today's earthquake and tsunami.

It's probably more realistic than the Grauniad blaming the previous big tsunami on global warming.

tomterm8

Thanks for the heads up on the power stations... I know Japan is one of the most prepared nations on earth for this, but it must still be scary, so I hope they are OK.

Generali

tomterm8 wrote: »

Thanks for the heads up on the power stations... I know Japan is one of the most prepared nations on earth for this, but it must still be scary, so I hope they are OK.

With any luck the bloke that invented the Toyota ute went on to nuclear power station design.

Generali

Apparently a 15km exclusion zone has been put around one nuclear power station.

purch

I know Japan is one of the most prepared nations on earth for this, but it must still be scary, so I hope they are OK.

Yes. They have had plenty in the past, and probably many more in the future, and they always recover and become stronger.

ChiefGrasscutter

I do hope the Japanese whaling fleet was caught in port and totally exterminated.
That would be a silver lining.(sorry not allowed to mention silver)

PasturesNew

Got my way finally - and watched BBC/24 and SkyNews on the telly. Same old stuff reeling round and round and round though, not much "new". More online.

They did wheel out some nuclear bloke, somebody Grimston. He said the nuclear buildings are fine and was waxing lyrical about the design and engineering skills that built them so well in such an earthquake-doomed area.

The thing with the nuclear stuff is: They automatically shut down once there's an earthquake; they shut down this time, except one; it's the smallest one; there was a failure in the system to pump water into the cooler, to cool the core.

They're evacuating the 2,000-3,000 people that live near it, as anybody would.

The Grimston bloke didn't seem overly bothered. He said there'd been no leak mentioned at the time - and then he cited another incident elsewhere in the world where one core did melt, 1/3rd of the stuff - and even so that was OK.

So there's nothing to panic about unless somebody says so.

abaxas

So there's nothing to panic about unless somebody says so.

Much to the disappointment of BBC/SKY news?