Tsunami Warning

[franalexes]

TSUNAMI WARNING

Japan. hit this morning. Please, everyone in the Pacific rim. BE ALERT.
Seek other news sources. Be safe.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by franalexes

TSUNAMI WARNING

Japan. hit this morning. Please, everyone in the Pacific rim. BE ALERT.
Seek other news sources. Be safe.

I wonder if we are next. Were are a few miles from the San Andreas fault. It's supposed to be overdue.

[Sissy Maid Lucy]

New Zealand, then China, then Japan. Plus Tonga and PNG. Those on the other side of the Pacific Plate, watch out!

I've only lived through one earthquake that was something like 3.9 on the Richter Scale. That was quite big enough, thank you!

[randolph]

Between the tsunami, the fires and a possible nuclear meltdown, this is a terrible tragedy for Japan.

Off the coast of Washington and Oregon is exactly the same kind of subduction geology. It has the potential of the same kind earthquake. The last one happened about two hundred years ago.

[shadows]

The also have to worry about their leaking nuclear reactor which suffered significant damage in the quake.

I cannot imagine how terrifying the whole situation would have been.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by randolph

I wonder if we are next. Were are a few miles from the San Andreas fault. It's supposed to be overdue.

When you hear of one earth quake there's usually another one or a volcano eruption soon to follow. There was an earth quake preceding Japan's, so hopefully that's it for a while. But yeah... you're kind of like the people in New Orleans living under sea level. Just waiting for a disaster to happen. Move?

[TracyCoxx]

I saw video of a tsunami wave moving through a marina in California and destroying everything it passed. It wasn't even a big one. But holy crap. That's about 5500 miles away from the earth quake! I really feel for the people in Japan.

[siamgirl]

I witnessed the tsunami of 2004 in s.e Asia . Its very hard to describe what I saw or experienced ...I can only say that the Thai authorities did all they could , remembering there was no pre warning technology. I can just add that its not easy to hold a dying baby in your arms...I dont want to say any more

[scott441]

Originally Posted by franalexes

TSUNAMI WARNING

Japan. hit this morning. Please, everyone in the Pacific rim. BE ALERT.
Seek other news sources. Be safe.

Were i work we are about a half mile from the ocean, and at eleven, on Friday we went out to the parking lot and looked, some had towels. Every part of the country has some weather thingie, we have earthquakes. I have been through a dozen or so, and as long you are in a reasonable safe place, just ride it out, it beats having hurricanes, when you know for a week that its coming, everytime you see tv. They also last so long, hours and hours, with a quake its over most times with in minutes. I won't even mention Tornado's...

[shadows]

Originally Posted by siamgirl

I witnessed the tsunami of 2004 in s.e Asia . Its very hard to describe what I saw or experienced ...I can only say that the Thai authorities did all they could , remembering there was no pre warning technology. I can just add that its not easy to hold a dying baby in your arms...I dont want to say any more

I am sorry that you had to go through such a heart-breaking time, Siam.

[siamgirl]

Originally Posted by shadows

I am sorry that you had to go through such a heart-breaking time, Siam.

Thank you Shadows. There are other, less perilous, dangers that I think the Japanese will master or indeed not even witness. Looting; Thai people are known for their compassion and statistics prove that Thailand is a very safe country for tourists. But when poor people lose the few belongings they ever possessed, they tend to scavenge anything that will possibly help them survive. Immediate needs like medicines, clothing, food, clean water etc. are eagily gleaned. The Thai police are renown for their hard stance towards law breakers, but there is a huge humanitarian difference when a mother 'loots' powdered milk for her hungry baby or a father 'steals' canvas sheeting to conjure up a makeshift tent for his family. I never saw anyone running off with a t.v. set or p.c. etc. The Japanese will not suffer such petty theft as they are very well prepared and were forewarned. Disease; Again, Japan was on alert and the paramedics are among the best. I doubt if we will hear of rotting bodies and thankfully the temperatures are low, which will delay any decomposition. The list is of woes are endless and people in despair become radical as the situation worsens. I pray that Japan will overcome this nuclear plant disaster that threatens to take more lives, albeit in a less dramatic, but nethertheless, lethal way. God bless Japan and it's people.
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[TracyCoxx]

Horrific videos from Japan are still emerging. As devistating as all this has been, I know Japan is a strong country, and they will come back stronger than before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJN3Z1ryck

[randolph]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Horrific videos from Japan are still emerging. As devistating as all this has been, I know Japan is a strong country, and they will come back stronger than before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJN3Z1ryck

One of the most amazing videos is of a coastal town that built a huge 30 foot high seawall to stop tsunamis from wiping out the town, which had happened several times in the past. This tsunami was so powerful that it surged right over the seawall and wiped out the town anyway.

[no1000]

Originally Posted by randolph

I wonder if we are next. Were are a few miles from the San Andreas fault. It's supposed to be overdue.

One of my dad's friends is a seismologist and he told me a couple of years ago that a 8.0+ earthquake is going to hit southern california in the next decade. This was about 3 years ago...time to prepare.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by no1000

One of my dad's friends is a seismologist and he told me a couple of years ago that a 8.0+ earthquake is going to hit southern california in the next decade. This was about 3 years ago...time to prepare.

Japan's quake was a 9.0. The max that San Andreas can produce is an 8.0, and that's not under water. Japan's quake was, which caused the tsunami. So while the 'big one' thats coming in california will be bad, it won't be as bad as the one in Japan.

[no1000]

Ok, yeah no expert here but I guess what I was trying to say is that one can never be too prepared for a natural disaster.