An earthquake of 8.9 magnitude (seventh most powerful earthquake ever recorded) struck northern Japan at 5:46 AM. It triggered a massive tsunami with waves as large as 10.6 meters. 288 people are dead and 398 people are missing. Over 100 000 people are being evacuated from northern Japan and at least a dozen countries are on alert. Some people say it will reach Hawaii and maybe even Los Angeles (that's a longshot). There have been 76 aftershocks and 16 are above 6.0. The tsunami has caused at least 2-50 landslides and the water is just wiping out people's homes.
I don't think Japan will recover from this in at least ten years. What do you think? Some people say a "supermoon" caused this, like it caused the 2005 Indonesian Tsunami. What are your thoughts on this?
We were watching the damage on tv yesterday morning. All of those cars just floating around crashing into each other was so sad. And then my dad said that there has to be people in some of those cars and I felt even worse.
Fox News said europeans are blaming it on globa warming. Is that not the most biggest load of BS you have ever heard. I think it as a pacific fault. I mean japan is an archipelago on a fault line. This was bound to happen someday. Pray for them.
Fox News said europeans are blaming it on globa warming.
Fox News says a lot of things, don't listen to them. Of course Japan has always been a region with a high risk for such things.
Though, the idea is not completely wrong. Tectonic movement is due to magma currents, so it has to do with heat. I heard not long ago that some blame it on the high solar activity. We just haven't enough datas for now to say with certainty what is going on.
It's bad indeed. The forces unleashed when this occurred are insanely high. Around 0.6 exa joules. Might not sound high enough, let's try again. 600 000 000 000 000 000 joules.
These powers can't even be dreamed of to be generated by us, puny humans. The Tzar Bomba, for example. Most powerful explosion ever made by humans. 50 000 kilotons, whilst "Fat Man" only yielded about 21 kilotons.
Just as a comparison of how bad this earthquake was.
It's bad when there's all those people and buildings on such tiny islands, so much of stress. Whenever they travel on national holidays there's bound to be an earthquake or two. I wish they could spread out some.
I sucks that those neucular reactors broke, you would think that they would be prepared though considering that they live on a fault line, i dont think they got a little lazy on the whole 'earthquake proof' thing.
maybe now someone will think a little more, before building nuclear reactors. Italy (my country) was almost the only country in the UE to resist to the nuclear frenzy, and now our great prime minister want to build some. And guess what? Italy is a sismic place! But hopefully, this will just be another of our great mr.dumb prime minister's occasional idiocies, like the bridge on the strait of Messina (lmao)
I feel so sad for them. I am praying for japan. they had 32 foot tsunamis and it came in 6 miles. and the earthquake was 8.9 :'( lots are missing but most dead, i will continue to pray for them. and if any atheist says this was God's fault, they are wrong. its satan's fault. King of the fallen world. anyways i will continue to pray for them...
