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"TOKYO -- A powerful tsunami spawned by the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history slammed the eastern coast Friday, sweeping away boats, cars, homes and people as widespread fires burned out of control. Authorities said at least 32 people were killed.

The magnitude 8.9 offshore quake was followed by at least 19 aftershocks, most of them of more than magnitude 6.0. Dozens of cities and villages along a 1,300-mile stretch of coastline were shaken by violent tremors that reached as far away as Tokyo, hundreds of miles from the epicenter.

A tsunami warning was issued for the entire Pacific, including areas as far away as South America, the entire U.S. West Coast, Canada and Alaska."

Read more:  (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/11/massive-7-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-japan/#ixzz1GHxIaH4z)

I'll move this later.  This is a huge quake.

Thousands of aftershocks over the next few months???

Probably, also look for another large quake somewhere ... South America or Turkey, or maybe even California or up in the cascadia

Memphis?

Holy geese.  CNN is showing cars drifting away and worse.  I was in a 7.3 magnitude earthquake a couple of years ago in Central America; couldn't stand up or even get out of bed (90 secs).  This is HUGE.

No, that's a dead rift and it's movement is unrelated.

There have already been 74 quakes there this morning.  Many 7.0 and higher.

Link - USGS (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/145_40.php)

FIFY. They sometimes lie about the baseball scores.

I'm jumping back and forth between Fox and CNN:  "Fair and Balanced." ;)

(http://arabnews.com/world/article312799.ece/REPRESENTATIONS/large_620x350/wor_tsunami.jpg)

OMG

I think the death toll of "32" is a bit optimistic.

(http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site200/2011/0311/20110311__Japan%20Earthquake_Redd.jpg)

13-foot wall of water.

What are they saying about Hawaii?  Is it there yet?

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Not yet.  They have a tsunami warning (expecting 6' tsunami - estimated).

"Thirty minutes after the main quake, tall buildings were still swaying in Tokyo"

(http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhvumeT3xY1qal3t0o1_500.jpg)

(http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2011/03/11/1226019/964051-japan-quake.jpg)

I dont know what exactly is in those balls, but typically it is some sort of highly explosive gas.

(http://timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/tsunami.jpg?w=455)

Has there ever been an earthquake anywhere that has been measured 8.9 or bigger? That is by far the most powerful quake I've ever heard of. And yes 32 deaths is a MOST optimistic report.

Yes.  Chili and Alaska have had 9's before.

But this is definitely one of the strongest ever recorded.

Looks like a refinery.  I'd guess solvents of various types.

UPDATE edit: Just saw it; natural gas facility.

I remember working up at Marshall space flight near their hydrogen balls.  They were like, "if one of those goes up, you'll never know it".

Fox said "largest ever recorded in Japan."

Incredible video and story.
Large ship swept into breakwater.

LINK (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-quake-20110311,0,1950058.story)

(http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/compare/docs/taiwan_six.jpg)

WOW.

Lets clarify that records began around 1800 and that this is not the end of the world.

FOX quoting Japan source, "Expect death toll in the thousands."

Oh my

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSSssHxm4Y

One of Japan's airports.

The 4th large earthquake in a short period of time on this planet. Preacher, anything we should know about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIN1-fkzJZY

There is a missing piece we dont know yet, but there is a relationship between earthquakes across the globe.  Energy cannot be released somewhere and not be added somewhere else.  You would expect periods of increased activity to correlate.

That said, there has been no increase in earthquakes.  As your resident geologist I assure you the world is not ending.

(http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/gss-110310-japanQuake/gss-110311-japanquake-01.grid-8x2.jpg)
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/gss-110310-japanQuake/gss-110311-japanquake-06.grid-8x2.jpg)

Check out dude hanging out on the bridge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMnLcQv1CwQ

Horrible wall of water (seen best after 1 min herein).

Amazing video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lIFEDFYIw

Snapshot video clips of worst scenes.

I have some good news...

Japan has the most censors of anywhere in the world.  There will be a lot of really good data collected from this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwk6pZH1k1U

Updated summary like above, but more recent and new video.

(http://media.al.com/wire/photo/japan-earthquake-tsunami-23b72bb43e16f725.jpg)

Pretty cool computer generated tsunami prediction graphic

"Coastal areas of Hawaii were being evacuacted (sic) and tourists in hotels were being moved to higher floors. The estimate was landfall about 7 a.m. CST."

AP Article (http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/03/hawaii_west_coast_under_tsunam.html)

Smitty, what effects around the world do you expect to see from this? I know Hawaii is under a Tsunami warning and I heard fox say that the U.S. West coast could be affected. Your thoughts?

Thanks.  Incredible.  Think what this magnitude of earthquake would do to San Francisco.  Ironically, just yesterday I saw some color photos of the 1906 (?) SF earthquake.  They were just found (color; rare back then).

It's hard to say, but with an earthquake of that size there is certainly some potential.  There are areas that are more prone to tsunami's on the west coast than most.  My guess would be a pretty good impact on hawaii and some kind of small hit in oregon. 

Most interesting will be to watch worldwide quake activity over the next couple of weeks.

That's great, it starts with an earthquake...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

That's what I was thinking. An expert that Fox was talking to by phone said that there have already been hundreds of aftershocks in Japan.

Fox just said that the waves were moving at 500 - 600 MPH.   :o  Umm....that's fast.

Fox reporting that the tsunami will hit Hawaii an hour later than earlier reported (8AM CST).

If you're interested, keep an eye here. (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/)

Absotively.

that expert sucks, it's around 80.

Either hyperbole or the reporter is trying to count himself (without a seismic monitor).  I know I felt aftershocks almost constantly when the big one hit Central America 2 years ago (7.3 on scale).  Right, expert sucks.

I'm really taxing my memory here, but I remember learning in high school that an earthquake is something like twice as powerful per decimal as the the previous on the Richter scale, meaning that a 6.5 earthquake is twice as powerful as a 6.4 earthquake. Am I remembering that correctly?

No, it's a log scale.  Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured amplitude.

BTW, San Francisco 1906 was an 8.0.  This is 8.9.

Having video links at work blocked, SUCKS!!!   >:(

Corrected themselves on Fox: tsunami expected at 7AM (just minutes).

It's logarithmic.  Each whole number is 31 times stronger than the previous.  Each 0.2 is twice as strong.

Thanks Chech. I couldn't remember exactly, but I knew the ramp-up was serious.

Not that simple.

The most horrible video is the wall of debris (cars, houses, trees, boats) rushing across neighborhoods in Japan.  It's taken from a chopper, and you can see traffic on the roads trying to outrun it (NOT) and intersections with cars stopped and people running.  The wall of water finally hit a levee along the ocean and all of the debris spilled over as a muddy, mile-long wall of debris that made a huge waterfall. :o :o :o

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MPPzGbeDG-k/SsM3yDIZhEI/AAAAAAAAApc/fkn6tHhfrfE/s400/Splainin%27ToDo.jpg)

'Splain please.

I checked here to be sure.  Wiki wrong?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale)

A couple of them seem to get away. 

"Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured amplitude; in terms of energy, each whole number increase corresponds to an increase of about 31.6 times the amount of energy released, and each increase of 0.2 corresponds to a doubling of the energy released."

Sorry, I was off by .6

That, to me, is why an 8.9 is unimaginable.

Also salient that it was a shallow epicenter.

Off to work.  Later, dudes.

Wow, 24km is very shallow.

(http://www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/031111_japan_20110311_074021.jpg)

Years of cleanup and recovery.

Tsunami from Japan earthquake strikes Hawaii, not as big as expected (http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/03/tsunami_from_japan_earthquake.html)

Yall ready to move this to halftime?

have a good day!

The pictures of Japan are just heartbreaking. Seeing the cars in the water with their flashers still on - seeing the people disappear, it's just terrible. :(
Prayers to the people of Japan and all families trying to contact family members and loved ones. :(

So I need to put off the visit to the girl cashier at the BP station? Let me know.

Less demand for Karaoke.

(http://www.websmileys.com/sm/obscene/eck27.gif) #Good one WV.

This has now hit Crescent City,CA. and has done damage there. It is expected to maybe touch Oregon. RTR!

I am watching Fox News also. They are now stated 1000 feared dead. I have no link yet, it is ongoing. They have released radiation in the air because that facility had to have some pressure release. RTR!

Fox News is now reporting that Santa Cruz has boats and harbors destroyed. RTR!

And oil.  Price per barrel is dropping. 

Bill can you see this I can't. Don't take me wrong I trust your posts but I was wandering if you could actually see this price dropping. RTR!

(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_35.gif)

Now they've had hundreds.  A lot of those of HUGE...  Major movement going on...

229 quakes on the map in the last week, but after the big one yesterday there were 80.  So that's about 150 in the last 24 hours.

Wow...I meant to post in this thread earlier. T's and P's to those folks over there...Major Devastation. 

I saw an article this morning that said the earthquakes there have moved Japan's coastline 8 feet and moved Earth 4 inches on it's axis.

They just reported on ABC that an explosion occurred at a nuclear reactor and there is concern of a meltdown.

Still rocking and rolling over there.

This amount of energy release is amazing.

(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_40.gif)

This is an event that will never be forgotten I believe. RTR!

10,000+ dead and counting (http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/03/japans_earthquake_death_toll_l.html)

 :(

As I watched a film clip of the disaster last night my heart just sank as I watched people in their autos trying to eascape by highway only to be encircled by the onrushing water.

Yeah, that is hardcore.  It's in this thread back in the beginning, chechem posted it.

I can only imagine what the death count will be when this mess is finally cleaned up, very sad.

Here on Sunday they were seeing another 8' Tsunami wave. RTR!

I can only imgaine what the famalies is feeling. I would be totally devastated but God said listen and they are not paying attention. RTR!