Holy s***.

Yeah I'm in hawaii right now, right on the coast. yay?

 

Edit: with tsunami warnings in effect and sirens blaring

Edited March 11, 201115 yr by kev211

This is crazy. Hope the casualties are kept to a minimum.

Tsunami Alert for New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and others. Waves expected over the next few hours, caused by 8.9 earthquake in Japan.

Yeah I'm in hawaii right now, right on the coast. yay?

 

Edit: with tsunami warnings in effect and sirens blaring

 

Yikes. Hope there are special markdowns on tsunami gear like surf boards and pfds

It sounds like reports are expecting 1-2 meters

5th biggest Earthquake since 1900 apparently.

 

Considering the Tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka, Indonesia etc. back in 2004 I think it was, the worst may still yet to come.

And really it's been a crazy 3-6 months for these type of disasters.

 

I can't remember at any point in my lifetime, around the whole Pacific / Oceanic Region, for things to be as bad as they have been.

 

 

State of emergency declared at 2 nuclear power plants.

Ugh. In the last few seconds of the video I posted above you can see several vehicles driving perpendicular to the oncoming tsunami and are going to be engulfed.

Edited March 11, 201115 yr by BigSqwert

Tsunami arrival time map.

 

Tsunami arrival time map.

When did it start so I can do the math and see where it will be in X hours?

When did it start so I can do the math and see where it will be in X hours?

2:46 p.m. Tokyo time, US Eastern is 14 hours behind that, so just after midnight.

State of emergency declared at 2 nuclear power plants.

 

 

All non-essential personnel will leave the plant. Probably will SCRAM the reactors.

Edited March 11, 201115 yr by StrangeSox

Crazy stuff.

Apparently the cooling water pumps at the Fukushima plant have been damaged, leading to the SoE.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/1...emergency-quake

 

The reactor is shut down, but those things still have massive amounts of latent heat.

Yeah I'm in hawaii right now, right on the coast. yay?

 

Edit: with tsunami warnings in effect and sirens blaring

Wow, terrible timing, Kev.

This is crazy. Hope the casualties are kept to a minimum.

Supposedly more than 100 bodies have washed up on shore... this is terrible.

Supposedly more than 100 bodies have washed up on shore... this is terrible.

 

NPR was reporting locations with at least 300.

 

This is not good.

 

They've shut down at least one of the US nuke's on the Pacific shore in anticipation of the tsunami.

Supposedly more than 100 bodies have washed up on shore... this is terrible.

 

Did I hear reports right of an entire ship of about 100 people being taken under?

I guess the only good news is that this was so far offshore. If a shallow 8.9 hit on Japan's main island, I'd think things would have been way, way worse.

 

how long do the tsunami warnings last for the HI and the west coast?

That whirlpool video was amazing and terrifying. That was straight out of Pirates of the caribbean