8.9 Quake hits off coast of Japan! Live Updates.

I wish I wasn't feeling so excited and giddy about this, while using it as an excuse not to be working. It feels like a snowday when I was a kid, but meanwhile, on the other side of the world in Japan, people have been dying by the 1000's. What's wrong with us?

Originally posted by pmbhuntress
Has anyone heard about the volcano erupting in Japan? I saw pictures that showed it was erupting due to the quake??? Anyone have any news on that? Never mind I just did some searching and found out it was 6 hours before the Quake:

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edit on 11-3-2011 by pmbhuntress because: (no reason given)

No, it occurs in Russia

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Almost simultaneously with the strong shock that hit Japan and triggered a giant tsunami in the Pacific, the Russian Kamchatka volcanoes erupted two. Erupcji towarzyszyły trzęsienia ziemi. Eruption was accompanied by earthquakes.

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reply to post by jasmine23


I would think so but, as it is a nuclear plant,i would imagine it may be quite remote and not slap bang in the middle of a highly populated area.
I may be wrong though!

Misawa a key NSA listening post. MT @W7VOA: US Misawa Air Force Base in Japan is w/o power and everyone there told to boil their water.

Watch Japanese TV live in english
Quality not so good, but still... filming coastal towns that were wiped out.

reply to post by jadedANDcynical

I honestly don't know if they were foreshocks. I mean that literally! I think that's something that the experts in Japan (who are brilliant and very experienced) and many others will be assessing for some time to come. From a layperson's perspective we could say that yes, they could be taken as foreshocks, but on the other hand I've seen so many quakes off the coast of Japan over the past few years that didn't lead to anything like this... I suspect they'll study a lot of data and try and determine if there was any relationship that they can delineate.

On the other hand, the mag 7.2 on March 9 is undoubtedly something they'll be studying to see if it was an indicator for what happened today. On balance, the chances are it was.

There's little doubt, though that this huge quake made the whole planet virtually ring like a bell. Thankfully these events are rare, but that also means there are few to study in detail and try and understand better what effects they may have -- both short-term and long-term.

Mike

reply to post by elevenaugust

Two volcanoes in Eastern Russia (Kamchatka) and one other in Indonesia.

Now scientist are fearing the coast has changed in that area of Japan cause the surge waters are not draining back out. The Pacific plate slides under the Asian plate and caused this quake, If the Pacific plate is holding down the front of the Asian plate in that area we have another disaster in the making that will send a massive Tsunami at the U.S. let alone another massive quake in Japan when it breaks loose and rises back up.

38,000 american service members in japan to help 7 u.s. ships with aid and u.s.s ronald reagan is on the way.

Wow most of the villages are completely gone only some structures still stand. This looks horrible. The death toll could easily rise to tens of thousands. The CNN live feed shows only some survivors most areas show no sign of survivors. I guess they didn´t get out in time.

reply to post by Perfectenemy


wonder when the updated deathtoll will come , must be hard to keep
a current count with a earthquake every ten minutes, and another tsunami

4.7 earthquake, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan. Mar 12 7:08am at epicenter (19m ago, 72km ESE of Hachinohe, depth … j.mp...

2229: Chile's Interior Minister, Rodrigo Hinzpeter, has ordered the evacuation of "all people living in defined flood zones" ahead of the expected arrival of tsunami waves of up to 3m (10ft) along the country's 4,000km (2,500-mile) coastline. On Easter Island, in the South Pacific, the authorities have evacuated 1,500 residents to the airport, which is 45m (150ft) above sea level. The tsunami is expected to reach Easter Island shortly before 1800 local time on Friday (2300 GMT). Residents of the Robinson Crusoe islands, which are closer to mainland Chile, have also been told they may have to move to higher ground.

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unreal !! it will not stop it seems until everyone there is dead

Is there anything that could happen at those plants that could turn into a global event? Is it possible for radiation to reach everywhere or anything like that? or anything that could become a chain event that could effect Nuclear plants in other continents....

If there is any chance of a spread to make it branch out I guess is what Im trying to ask?

is it just me or are some of those future world flood maps coming true ?

Has anyone checked the magnetosphere before during and after the quake??
It looks kinda funny.

2233: Other islands in the South Pacific have been reporting bigger-than-normal waves as the tsunami reaches them, but no significant damage. Police in Tonga said water had surged into a number of houses on the low-lying Ha'apai islands early on Saturday morning, according to the Associated Press. Tidal surges up to 66cm (26in) high were also reported in American Samoa, Nauru, Saipan and at the far northern tip of New Zealand.

What on God's Green Earth is really going on at HONSHU, JAPAN ??!!!


MAP 5.2 2011/03/11 21:41:58 37.279 142.351 10.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
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MAP 5.5 2011/03/11 19:31:56 36.962 138.367 10.3 EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN
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MAP 5.0 2011/03/11 15:46:02 36.022 141.958 19.7 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
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MAP 5.2 2011/03/11 15:32:34 37.216 142.233 25.0 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
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MAP 5.3 2011/03/11 13:48:38 38.426 143.061 25.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
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MAP 6.3 2011/03/11 06:48:47 37.993 142.764 22.3 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
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MAP 6.4 2011/03/11 06:06:11 39.025 142.316 25.1 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
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MAP 5.3 2011/03/11 00:14:51 -54.369 -116.808 10.0 SOUTHERN EAST PACIFIC RISE

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MAP 5.0 2011/03/10 19:06:11 13.745 120.725 127.0 MINDORO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 6.5 2011/03/10 17:08:37 -6.862 116.765 508.1 BALI SEA
MAP 5.2 2011/03/10 16:54:45 38.053 143.253 4.7 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.1 2011/03/10 11:21:08 38.611 143.049 17.6 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.2 2011/03/10 09:02:22 38.652 143.146 21.9 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.7 2011/03/10 08:08:21 38.630 143.304 17.2 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.4 2011/03/10 04:58:18 24.710 97.994 10.0 MYANMAR-CHINA BORDER REGION
MAP 5.0 2011/03/10 01:20:24 38.408 143.033 25.1 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

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MAP 5.4 2011/03/09 23:37:01 38.438 143.185 32.8 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 6.5 2011/03/09 21:24:52 -6.022 149.659 29.0 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MAP 6.1 2011/03/09 21:22:18 38.385 142.642 23.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 6.0 2011/03/09 18:44:35 38.502 143.199 23.0 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 6.1 2011/03/09 18:16:15 38.378 142.506 22.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.3 2011/03/09 13:57:28 8.631 92.395 23.2 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.1 2011/03/09 13:51:42 -20.216 -174.350 132.5 TONGA
MAP 5.0 2011/03/09 13:24:08 -27.462 -68.853 108.0 CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA
MAP 5.1 2011/03/09 11:27:52 38.529 143.040 28.2 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.3 2011/03/09 08:02:36 38.606 143.103 15.4 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
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MAP 5.0 2011/03/09 07:13:48 38.246 143.108 9.9 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
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MAP 5.3 2011/03/09 04:45:54 38.543 142.740 27.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
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MAP 5.2 2011/03/09 04:05:54 38.870 142.420 10.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.0 2011/03/09 03:19:00 38.795 142.962 19.9 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.2 2011/03/09 03:08:36 38.339 143.097 24.4 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 5.6 2011/03/09 02:57:17 38.402 142.825 17.5 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 7.2 2011/03/09 02:45:20 38.424 142.836 32.0 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN