Is Japan sinking? (Creepy Video)

reply to post by MushroomWig
What haircut?
He has a joe goin on

anyhow.
someone mentioned broken pipes...


the entire ground moving from broken pipes
ok

Is Japan sinking?
Hold you head in shame for starting such a fear-mongering ridiculous thread.
Educate yourself before you spread ignorance.
It is called liquefaction
www.youtube.com...
Watch from 12:20

A lot of japan is FILL...what do you expect people? You can't just poor dirt and expect it to hold forever. New York would be just like this any many areas

Earthquakes can do amazing things. They are caused by the Earths tectonic plates rubbing together, more or less. This is why you have videos of the ground moving like this.

Did you know that there was a time in the Earth's history that all the continents were together in one big land mass? You know why they are where they are now? Earth quakes, plates shifting and causing the land to move. It's also why we have mountains.

What you see in those videos is scary, but very natural. For the record, I would freak out to, if the ground under my feet was moving that way.

reply to post by Shenon
The entire Island needs to be evacuated, it is just insane for them to stay there. The island is right on the edge of a underwater clif just off shore it drops miles. It wouldn't take much more for the whole island to go underwater.

reply to post by coolottie


The thing is, these earth changes are ingrained in the Japanese culture. (I recommend 1000 Fujis by Hokusai.) Even if they are accelerating as events, and even if it was proven to them that the island was indeed sloughing off the continental shelf, many would not leave. The island is part of them, and vice versa.

What gets me is how the Japanese seem to take it all in stride for the most part. These videos of their streets remind of those amusement park features with moving floors that you have to cross.

Even if the quakes continue indefinitely I get the impression the Japanese would just start building everything with joints and levers and whatnot to absorb the energy -- and just carry on carrrying on.

For those of us who don't have these problems it seems incredulous, but amazingly impressive.

reply to post by Sovaka


That does not mean that it is floating, and is gonna fall off into the ocean, which is what i gathered from the op.

"This land used to be part of Tokyo Bay..."

And it seems it may be again.

I am betting that all the videos shown are in areas where land was reclaimed. The earthquake caused liquification and the seawater seeped back in underneath. Hope they like the feeling of living on boats, because I doubt that is gonna go away.

This is the stuff nightmares are made of.

Thats 100% real!

Lots of Footage of Japan Like that.

The Island Moved 8 Feet, to the west I Recall.

You are seeing a lot of Rippling wherever asphalt, concrete or blocks are down!

Holy S###! That is craazy, I can't believe Japan is getting all this... the way the ground is pulsating is terrifying...

Holy snizzle that is so scary it's insane..I wouldn't be waiting on any government or any decree to tell me to get the he** outta there! I would be calling the nearest PODS dealer and packin up and moving out..my guess is they are goin down

wasnt there a video like this not too long fter the initial quake? and it was from the area being built on top of man made land...so if it wasnt solid land to begin with and when there are as many quakes as there has been then i would imagine that the land that was floating pretty much anyway,that more water would get into and under it to cause this to happen

Scary stuff, reminds me of the 2012 movie, the first part were the earth cracks open in the shop. And later on all hell breaks loose...Yikes...heavens, that's just a movie.

Common sense tells me, another quake (given the increase in quakes, not that I hope for it), will likely widen the cracks and more water spewing onto the surface due to the pressure of landmass rubbing against each other.

An incoming tsunami from the quake will add to the devastation. Now seriously, that would be very horrific.

By the sound of it, there is much water underneath. The Japanese govt should seriously get this under control, before this worsens.

EDIT: Forget to add the tsunami bit. It gives me chills to imagine such a horrific event

Anything done with regard to this, or the Japanese Govt are busy repairing the Nuke Plants????

reply to post by Sovaka

So lets take it a step further shall we?
This already unstable land that is basically 50parts land and 50parts water by weight ratio IS unstable.
Imagine ANOTHER Tsunami coming in and hitting this liquified land... Such a wall of water WILL wash away this liquified land.

You might be on to something. Matter of fact, I believe the worst is already happening. Sounds like the soil is super-saturated (or whatever the reverse term is). May not need another tsunami - ground appears mush, for good now, only a matter of time before nothing is solid. Another wave would just remove all evidence of human presence.

That impressive liquefaction. I've sent this link to one of my Geology professors and will get back with more information once he responds.

I am going towards sixty, and I have seen Scientists "proof" a lot in my time. As long as it does not impact my life directly, I dont realy give a hoot, whatever they have "proofen"...

Lets make this guy happy... Yes Japan is sinking.

(Don't tell him but if he used the interent where he found this site he'd learn what actually causes it !)

I shake my head again. With all the knowledge we have today, let alone access to it, we still have people that beat the generation before in outright dumbness...

reply to post by coolottie


No I stand corrected. This person is the looniest.

Originally posted by StealthyKat
reply to post by Arbitrageur

 

I noticed that too. Some people laugh when they are afraid too....but I know what you mean, they probably are used to it, so when you see THEM freaking, that's when you KNOW it's bad!

I actually read that in a Speech class, where the textbook states that Japanese people smile when they want to cry and cry when they feel happy. Interesting thing. They have a different way of expressing.