8.8 Earthquake in Japan

[Malsua 1,422]

Prayers to the Japanese people. Holy cow. Centered 142miles ne of Tokyo...Tokyo still took a big hit, fires all over.

 

There are pictures surfacing of the cars and such...the wave was massive.

 

Stunning.

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/11/japan-quake-markets-idUSL3E7EB0TL20110311

 

 

 

[Malsua 1,422]

[JimmyAGR 54]

I got a call at 03:30 this morning from my son who is stationed in Yakuska, Japan. Thankfully he is ok and was heading home to check on his house and dog. Hopefully it is over and they get no more quakes.

[Malsua 1,422]

Listening to the radio, they're getting aftershocks that are pretty big...they claim they may go to 6.0. That alone is a major quake.

[tony357 386]

devistating.. It is amazing how all those cars are just floating..

[hd2000fxdl 422]

Here is how the One of the Airports are doing, This is the latest Info I have still aaiting updates.

 

ATCSCC ADVZY 029 DCC 03/11/2011 JAPAN AIRPORT INFO

MESSAGE:

RJAA AIRPORT CLOSED AT THIS TIME, ATC EVACUATED AND AIRPORT EXPECTEDTO REOPEN UPON THE REOPENING OF THE TOWER, RWYS HAVE BEEN CHECKEDAND ARE REPORTED TO BE IN GOOD CONDITION. ALL AIRCRAFT ARE RELEASEDBUT ADVISED TO BE PREPARED TO DIVERT TO AN ALT AIRPORT IF SITUATIONCHANGES.

EFFECTIVE TIME:

110659 - 111259

SIGNATURE:

11/03/11 08:07

[DirtyDigz 1,811]

Wow. Not good. 8.8 is HUGE.

[Regulator72 80]

9My brother in law (USMC) and his family are stationed in Okinawa, thankfully they are all fine there..

[Malsua 1,422]

Watch this video...

 

The water is just relentless.

 

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4579888/incredible-video-wall-of-water-sweeps-ashore-in-japan

[DirtyDigz 1,811]

A tsunami watch was issued for the coasts of Oregon, Washington and California as well as parts of Alaska.

 

A wave could hit just before 7:30 a.m. Friday but scientists hadn't worked out yet the size of the possible wave.

 

More information as it becomes available.

 

Still catching up on reading. Did Tsunami hit Hawaii?

[DirtyDigz 1,811]

Tsunami hitting airport in Japan:

 

[DirtyDigz 1,811]

Big wave expected to hit Hawaii around 9am EST.

 

Japan has declared a Nuclear Emergency - it's reported that there is a cooling issues with a reactor.

[DirtyDigz 1,811]

Wow, look at that wave...

 

[Jon 264]

Current death toll is at 68. Such a tragedy.

[Malsua 1,422]

Current death toll is at 68. Such a tragedy.

 

The death toll is likely to be in the thousands. What a disaster.

[kenw 293]

A terrible tragedy. The earthquake areas around the Pacific seem to be getting more active lately.

[Drew 4]

Its incredible watching the water just go and go and go, that's insane.

 

I wish them the best of luck

[Jon 264]

Hawaii was just hit, no word on how hard yet.

[tuktuk 16]

Sent txt msgz to couple of guys I know on Okinawa and in Tokyo early in the mourning..... Everybody reported back. No details as they have no time to talk.

Prayers to them.

[axeman_g 128]

Guys... checkin in now.

 

Got to work here at FEMA Region III at 5am. Monitoring only now, but our first repsonse team is moving to the west coast now. The USAR Team 1 from Virginia is on the move also. It is really bad. We just got imagery from a AF Recon flight and there are hundreds of bodies floating in the water. This is not pretty for the folks of Japan.

 

Hawaii is getting about 6 foot swells and has a pretty decent pull back going on the western island. They expect so far no serious damages in Hawaii, but they are very uncertain.

 

Alaskan Island were in play also, but so far have had no effects.

[Wolfy 51]

I hope Japan can recover quickly from this.

[tony357 386]

Seems they have 2 reactors overheating, hopefully they can restore cooling to the reactors..

[Malsua 1,422]

Here's some doom and gloom.

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/nuclear-expert-fukushima-has-24-hours-avoid-core-meltdown-scenario

 

Nuclear Expert: "Fukushima Has 24 Hours To Avoid A Core Meltdown Scenario"

 

 

snippet...

Unfotunately, Japan does not have much time:

 

Asked how long Japanese scientists have to correct the problem to avoid a core meltdown, Hibbs tells Newsmax that it depends on system design, adding, “it could be a day, plus or minus 10 hours.”

 

“After a while, with the heat building up in there, and lack of coolant, you’re going to see damage in your fuel, the cladding, the metal container around the nuclear material, begins to buckle or balloon or break, and after a little while you’ll get a situation where the fuel falls apart, melts, and falls into the core, and then you’ve got a classical core melt accident like you had in Three Mile Island that you had in the United States in '79.”

 

Hibbs spoke with Japanese government officials who told him the force of the tsunami was so severe that the water may have flooded the reactors, power generators, and cooling mechanisms, disabling the equipment. "Which means they have to resort to basically a military-type exercise, to rush in to the devastated site equipment that they can quickly hook up to the reactor to get power in there and start this emergency equipment, to get cooling water into that core and prevent that fuel from overheating.

 

“And if they can’t do that,” he told Newsmax, “then you’re going to have this meltdown.”

 

They have 24 hours or so to avoid a core meltdown, he says. But if one occurs, two scenarios could follow: The good outcome would mirror what happened at Three Mile Island, while the bad one could involve what he called a “Chernobyl scenario, where the damage to the reactor was such that the integrity of the structures were damaged.

[axeman_g 128]

Word out of NRC Task Force is that the meltdown scenario is being overblown... but we shall see.

[Malsua 1,422]

Word out of NRC Task Force is that the meltdown scenario is being overblown... but we shall see.

 

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Battle_to_stabilise_earthquake_reactors_1203111.html

 

Well, if they are releasing pressure, it's serious. Apparently it's mostly that they need power to run the pumps. That's a good article by the way.

 

Even now, the primary focus of work at the site remains to connect enough portable power modules to fully replace the diesels and enable the full operation of cooling systems.

 

Pressure and releases

 

Without enough power for cooling systems, decay heat from the reactor cores of units 1, 2 and 3 has gradually reduced coolant water levels through evaporation. The consequent increase in pressure in the coolant circuit can be managed via pressure release valves. However, this leads to an increase in pressure within the reactor building containment. Tepco has said that the pressure within the containment of Fukushima Daiichi 1 has reached around 840 kPa, compared to reference levels of 400 kPa.

 

The company has decided to manage this "for those units that cannot confirm certain levels of water injection" by means of a controlled release of air and water vapour to the atmosphere. Because this water has been through the reactor core, this would inevitably mean a certain release of radiation. The International Atomic Energy Agency said this would be filtered to retain radiation within the containment.

[Malsua 1,422]

Explosion at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi plant heard around 0630 GMT (1:30 eastern)

 

It looks like of the two that were having trouble, one is fine, the other popped its cork and is probably in meltdown.

 

Keep your eyes on this one.

[tony357 386]

The japanese goverment to pass out potassium iodine..

 

 

[Bob La 1]

A little more fun info:

 

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/japan-nuclear-accident-worse-than-worst-again

 

Good luck to them.

[axeman_g 128]

I don't know enough about this subject to really discuss in depth... I do know it sucks big donkey balls. That is the tech term by the way.

[mipafox 438]

I don't know enough about this subject to really discuss in depth... I do know it sucks big donkey balls. That is the tech term by the way.

 

 

Damn straight. I hope it aint as bad as it looks. Because it looks like it's going to be a heck of a lot worse than it looks.

 

It looks like they got F'd-up worse than all of the fire bombings and nukes of WWII. But, back then they had (guess) 10x less people and most of their **** was made out of wood. In recent decades they've put together energy production, utilities, food distribution, and mass transit to support a gazzilion people. Not to mention they are a major economic player on the world stage and a major world power. And already in serious debt.

 

I don't know how bad it is or is not. But it looks like crap on my TV, and keep in mind, we have so many more people packed into our countries now that any complete failure in the system will result in massive loss of life. It's like California. Without the engineering improvements (water), most people would leave or be dead in 6 months. And the desert would reclaim much of the state in a couple years.