Quote :

"A tsnuami alert has been issued after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 hit the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan, on Wednesday afternoon, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake, at a depth of 10 kilometers, struck at 12:45 p.m. local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/08/strong-quake-shakes-japan/"

Magnitude 7.2 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011 March 09 02:45:18 UTC

3/8/2011 10:16:45 PM

ibtt

3/8/2011 10:19:21 PM

3/8/2011 10:19:37 PM

I actually have a close friend over in Japan right now working on some stuff for Uniden America.
Waiting to hear back and make sure he is ok.

3/8/2011 10:21:37 PM

Odd how the 2012 people showed up so quickly. I guess the internet is full of them.

3/8/2011 10:25:40 PM

fault lines didnt exist until 2012, i mean 2011

3/8/2011 10:27:08 PM

I was just contacted by udorawala, and apparently he is collecting $$ and supplies for a humanitarian relief package to send to Japan. He wants to know if TWW would be willing to donate?

3/8/2011 10:29:00 PM

Uday!

3/8/2011 10:48:00 PM

The Chinese guy jumps out from behind the haystack and yells "SUPPLIES!"

3/8/2011 10:53:07 PM

It used to really irk me when my dad would ask me if I was okay after there was an earthquake in a completely different area of the country from where I was, even though I knew he meant well. One day I asked him if he was okay after there was a tornado in Kansas and he realized the significance of geography

[Edited on March 8, 2011 at 11:09 PM. Reason : G]

3/8/2011 11:01:52 PM

i hope this doesn't affect Kawakami, the guy that is helping me on a NI LabVIEW programming forum this week

3/8/2011 11:06:12 PM

Caught up with my friend:

Quote :

" I felt the Earth. Move. Under my feet! Seemed to shake for 2-3 minutes. Lateral movement amplified by being on the 6th floor, but seemed to be a few inches of sway at the worst. Definitely not easy to miss (at least while sitting down). Very odd sensation."

He says he was located about 250 miles from the epicenter.....

3/8/2011 11:06:38 PM

that's not a haiku at all!

3/8/2011 11:07:37 PM

I felt the Earth move.
Someone check the seismograph.
JK, its my sperm.

3/8/2011 11:11:39 PM

F11 makes Japan earthquake

3/8/2011 11:13:05 PM

Watch out!!

3/8/2011 11:21:32 PM

^^they need to alt-F4 that bitch

3/8/2011 11:56:05 PM

Quote :

"An 8.8-magnitude earthquake has struck Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey says. Tsunami warnings have been issued."

http://www.cnn.com/ No Article yet

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0001xgp.php

3/11/2011 1:37:13 AM

Upgraded to an 8.9
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42023385/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

3/11/2011 2:25:50 AM

watching the live footage on CNN. You can still see waves coming in. It's a mess. Fortunately, there's a lot of farm land near there, or at least that's what they've said

and why is my boyfriend always in Hawaii during a tsunami warning

3/11/2011 2:42:08 AM

holy shit

3/11/2011 2:45:32 AM

Watching on BBC online now (I'm at work). This isn't good.

3/11/2011 3:00:14 AM

thoughts are with japan

i mean when you hear things over 6 and 7 you are like, damn that is bad

plus tsunamis....

thinking of you, japan.

[Edited on March 11, 2011 at 3:00 AM. Reason : stuff like this honestly makes me cry]

3/11/2011 3:00:29 AM

embed plz

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/raw-video-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-in-japan-24485372

3/11/2011 3:26:23 AM

Holy hell - aerial video of the wave consuming the countryside:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/japan.quake/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

[Edited on March 11, 2011 at 3:31 AM. Reason : .]

3/11/2011 3:27:35 AM

damn.

iop1

3/11/2011 3:28:32 AM

^^^ dam those people better get off that bridge. that shit is RISING

3/11/2011 3:29:09 AM

Quote :

"dam those people better get off that bridge. that shit is RISING"

Lol... where do you want them to go?! everything under the bridge is under water

3/11/2011 3:35:33 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/raw-video-tsunami-slams-northeast-japan-24485635

3/11/2011 3:38:58 AM

The oil refinery fire is HUGE.
And seeing that nasty mess of water wash across the land is crazy. There's boats and houses and fires floating across there.

3/11/2011 3:52:45 AM

CNN says the Tsunami Warning has been extended to the entire West coast.
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/04/messagelhvpd9-04.htm

[Edited on March 11, 2011 at 4:38 AM. Reason : Update from NOAA/NWS/West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center]

3/11/2011 4:22:57 AM

8.9 is a massive earthquake. The Indonesian tsunamis were created by a 9.1-9.3, the third largest ever recorded.

3/11/2011 6:48:46 AM

holy fuck

3/11/2011 7:00:41 AM

Crazy

3/11/2011 7:06:50 AM

Today, we are all japanese

3/11/2011 7:09:08 AM

Dammit. Videos aren't working on my phone.

3/11/2011 7:11:25 AM

Jesus, seeing a wall of water coming at me would terrify me
Seeing a wall of water coming at me filled with boats and fucking FIRE would make me pass the fuck out

3/11/2011 7:47:14 AM

well that's not good

3/11/2011 8:02:45 AM

That's a lot of damn water. And didn't even notice it the first time but there was a car going down that road that the water was going straight for.

3/11/2011 8:14:31 AM

Tsunami is hitting Hawaii now

Nuclear power plant is on fire in japan

3/11/2011 8:34:46 AM

Japan pwnt. stay home

3/11/2011 8:35:34 AM

i hope i don't know anyone in japan right now!

3/11/2011 8:46:11 AM

i know a couple people, they have all reported being safe so far

3/11/2011 8:47:13 AM

ha, that's freaky watching all of the water go out and expose the reef in hawaii.

3/11/2011 8:48:22 AM

The school I work at had a teacher from Sendai Japan come over as part of an exchange program... he recently went back to Sendai... Sendai is the place the videos keep showing being engulfed by the tsunami I hope that he is ok.

3/11/2011 8:49:37 AM

^^can you post a link of that? I'm looking for it and can't find it

[Edited on March 11, 2011 at 8:52 AM. Reason : ^]

3/11/2011 8:51:59 AM

http://www.cnn.com/

under the main story, you'll see Live: Hawaii

3/11/2011 8:54:21 AM

Whats the least popular detergent in Japan?

3/11/2011 9:03:48 AM

the morning people on CNN are so much better than these over-sensationalizing people who are on right now. Talking about massive waves hitting California

3/11/2011 9:05:08 AM

sucks

3/11/2011 9:08:22 AM