Posted on 03/12/2011 6:08:56 AM PST by cll
More than 9,500 people unaccounted for in Minamisanriku, Japan, Kyodo News Agency reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Yeah, I guess it’s further inland, where there is no “wave” per se, just a surge coming in increasing in strength reaching flash flood proportions before mellowing down.
“”since they didn’t get any calls from one town they must not be that badly banged up””
Reminds me of my mother after the Xenia tornado - “I didn’t call you because you hadn’t called so I figured you were ok.” I said, “Mother - if we weren’t ok, we COULDN’T have called.”
There are many innocent Japanese citizens missing and dead. This is a tragedy of historic proportions. Show some respect and stop deliberatly being such a wretched ass.
“I will be pleasantly surprised if the death toll doesn’t reach 30-50 thousand.
God have mercy on Japan.”
Because the earthquake happened so close to shore, geophysi cal experts have already said the tsunami would have arrived within 5 minutes. Most of Japan is completely flat and just a few feet above sea level. A 30 foot wave traveling inshore at 6 miles or more in a densely populated coastal region like Japan would be utterly devastating. It’s not improbably that the death toll will be in the millions, and that infrastructure damage will far exceed that done to Japan in WWII.
On top of that, with transportation, communication and sea freight completely destroyed in much of the coastal area, it’s not unlikely that food, water, and medicine will be instantly unavailable for some time for many people, and thus it’s possible there may be many more casualties from that.
The inundated areas don’t look like they will drain any time soon. It’s possibl that Japan may cease to be a productive part of the world economy for several years.
“Oh that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!” Psalm 107
That refrain is repeated numerous times in the Psalm. I believe it’s in large part the heart cry of the Lord to us.
I was HERE for Katrina. Everyone is forgetting to factor in the sheer INCOMPETENCE of local weather ‘professionals’, the fact that it was a weekend( when no one watches anything but football), and the fact that Katrina was HUGE. It affected the ENTIRE Gulf Coast. A hurricane isn’t just the eye-and that’s all anyone seems to track and consider being ‘hit’ by.
Local weather woman said, as late as Saturday morning, that Katrina would give us a ‘blustery day’!! WE were going to be on the ‘good side’! This with the behemoth right below New Orleans, taking up the entire Gulf!Less than 48 hours away! Local meterologists in Mobile got it right- and warning from friends there was the ONLY reason we left N.O.! It was DOWNPLAYED here till the last minute!
Every local, looking at a map, knows what it means when a hurricane that size is in the Gulf- New Orleans WILL be affected. And New Orleans can’t take half the beating any other city on the coast can.
Common sense warned most locals- even if the ‘professionals’ screwed up- as usual. ( Gotta worry about losing those tourists $$ you know!)
If you had a clue, you would know there have been numerous strong after shocks, including a 6.0 quake centered 42 miles from Tokyo. Alas, you are more focused on being an obnoxious disrupter than providing any serious info to the discussion.
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I think you are right about the death toll. The count has barely begun!
My continued prayers for Japan.....
Speaking of aftershocks, I was just looking at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia_eqs.php with my ten year old (impromptu lesson in earthquakes at our house yesterday and today) and was astounded at the number and strength of them, literally dozens and dozens of STRONG aftershocks over the past 26 hours. Normal? I don’t remember looking at the gov site after a big earthquake and seeing so many strong ones before, but I could be wrong.
And even before the big one yesterday, the east coast of Honshu was moderately rocking here and there for several days.
That doesn’t gel with the CNN live coverage. In those helicopter shots you hear an anchor saying that the earthquake hit about an hour and 10 minutes ago and he was showing live shots. Hard to say how long the water had been rushing at that point but I don’t think it had been going on for an hour.
Maybe so.
The thing I want to know is that apparently the scientists knew - or at least some did- that this could happen in a 72 hour period after the March 9th quake in the Honshu region - which is the location of Sendai. So, did the Japanese government, press, etc warn these people???
Geez. Use your head. Everyone on the coast would be evacuating a dozen times a year. This is why we don’t let knuckleheads like you handle these decisions.
This video is a wild. Put away the awful tragedy you are witnessing and think about these idiots snapping their cameras (you can hear it) and standing there watching this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjxnNVNGgm4
I would have been hightailing it out of there.
Look at the power of that water.
It did go over high embankments as we saw in those helicopter shots and these guys are just standing there.
Amen!
“Could a land mass that large simply break apart and completely sink?”
I don’t know but I found this video of LIQUIFACTION after the earthquake highly disturbing, it’s not done yet folks.
http://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse#p/u/3/267e1c3Z1XQ
No you're not. You are being entirely unreasonable. In fact, you're acting like a spoiled child. True, a reasonable person knows casualty statistics in the early hours and days after a major disaster are unreliable. Do you think you're telling the people here anything they don't already know?
Where you have been unreasonable is in your comment "hoping things aren’t being exaggerated to flood the country with donated money, food, etc." Your obvious investment in that callous, ridiculous position is what marks you as not only unreasonable, but stupid. Your cold-hearted stubbornness even in the face of a massive disaster is an example of what gives conservatives a bad rep in the general public.
Thanks. I wish they had explained exactly what the red lines are. I have heard that movement/strain along the quake boundry was 4 inches per year, with no movement for more than 100 years. By comparison, the movement along the Mid Atlantic Ridge is at the rate fingernails grow.
The Cascadia subduction zone would wreck everything from northern California to British Columbia. And a a repeast of the 1812 New Madrid Earthquake would destroy everything from St. Louis to Memphis.
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