2011 Sendai Earthquake & Tsunami

[RobWESTPACWX]

Checking in for today all, still steaming North along with several other ships heading up there for relief efforts. Been crazy busy still, the nuclear plants are a big worry, still watching the winds closely in relation to that, from a MET standpoint it is the most important thing right now.

On the ground back home though the wife is telling me there has been rolling black outs, food at the local storm is basiclly out. I'm happy we have our canned food stash that she laughed at me about for putting together. I said it was going to be useful one day.

There are plenty of relief organizations out there, in japan I know if your reading this you can take supplies to your local post office, there taking stuff there to send North.

Any how Just stopping in all. Stay safe out there!

[vbhoutex]

Checking in for today all, still steaming North along with several other ships heading up there for relief efforts. Been crazy busy still, the nuclear plants are a big worry, still watching the winds closely in relation to that, from a MET standpoint it is the most important thing right now.

On the ground back home though the wife is telling me there has been rolling black outs, food at the local storm is basiclly out. I'm happy we have our canned food stash that she laughed at me about for putting together. I said it was going to be useful one day.

There are plenty of relief organizations out there, in japan I know if your reading this you can take supplies to your local post office, there taking stuff there to send North.

Any how Just stopping in all. Stay safe out there!

First thank you for your service. Second, please stay as safe as possible while you help. Thanks for checking in with us and letting us know what is going on.

[Dean4Storms]

Checking in for today all, still steaming North along with several other ships heading up there for relief efforts. Been crazy busy still, the nuclear plants are a big worry, still watching the winds closely in relation to that, from a MET standpoint it is the most important thing right now.

On the ground back home though the wife is telling me there has been rolling black outs, food at the local storm is basiclly out. I'm happy we have our canned food stash that she laughed at me about for putting together. I said it was going to be useful one day.

There are plenty of relief organizations out there, in japan I know if your reading this you can take supplies to your local post office, there taking stuff there to send North.

Any how Just stopping in all. Stay safe out there!

Thanks for any and all updates, stay safe!!

[Bunkertor]

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/monst ... 1bt2p.html

NORTH-EASTERN Japan can expect another monster earthquake large enough to trigger a tsunami within days, the head of the Australian Seismological Centre says.

The director, Kevin McCue, said there had been more than 100 smaller quakes since Friday, but a larger aftershock was likely.

''Normally they happen within days,'' he said. ''The rule of thumb is that you would expect the main aftershock to be one magnitude smaller than the main shock, so you would be expecting a 7.9.
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''That's a monster again in its own right that is capable of producing a tsunami and more damage.''

The Japanese quake was the result of a process called thrust faulting. A piece of the Earth's crust broke away at the juncture of the Eurasian and Pacific plates and was thrust underneath the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.

The US Geological Survey estimated the quake moved the Japanese coast about 2.4 metres.

''It basically pushed the sea floor up and down on opposite sides of the fault by 10 metres, causing the tsunami,'' Dr McCue said. ''It is a sudden rupture that has occurred, but it has occurred because the two plates are converging at about eight centimetres a year and have been for about 100 years. That eight metres is released suddenly when the plate snaps and breaks and produces the earthquake.''

Japan's last earthquake on this scale was in 1923, when the magnitude 7.9 Kanto quake killed more than 100,000 people in and around Tokyo and Yokohama.

The latest Japanese disaster is unrelated to the quake that devastated Christchurch last month, which was caused by a fracturing within the Pacific plate.

A seismology research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Gary Gibson, said the world averages one magnitude 8 quake a year, but the rate was inconsistent. The 1980s and 1990s had far fewer large quakes than average, for example.

''There is more variation than you would expect from a random occurrence of earthquakes, and we really don't have a mechanism to describe why that is the case,'' Dr Gibson said. ''But there is no question that the last two years have been very active and well above average.''

Dr McCue dismissed suggestions that melting glaciers due to global warming could escalate the earthquake risk.

[Crostorm]

Another massive video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-zfCBCq-8I

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

[Macrocane]

OMG! those videos are unbelievable they look like a sci-fi movie. I agree with the article that says that a 1 magnitude smaller earthquake may occur on the next few weeks, back on 2001 when we have a 7.6 earthquake in El Salvador there was another one exactly one month later with a magnitude of 6.6, it was not considered an aftershock but the experts said that the major event may have triggered the 2nd one. Let's just hope that a 7.9 or 8 earthquake does not occur.

[Florida1118]

Amazing videos. I wonder how much more we can do to stop tsunamis. I advise no one read the comment on the videos though. They are senseless and truly annoying.

[Macrocane]

:uarrow: Amazing videos. I wonder how much more we can do to stop tsunamis. I advise no one read the comment on the videos though. They are senseless and truly annoying.

I try not to read youtube comments as they always seem to came from small kids or people without a grain of sensitivity.

[Crostorm]

High resolution 2011 (2011) Aerial view of earthquake disaster area by the Northeast Taiheiyou

http://saigai.gsi.go.jp/photo_h23taihei ... index.html

[Stephanie]

Checking in for today all, still steaming North along with several other ships heading up there for relief efforts. Been crazy busy still, the nuclear plants are a big worry, still watching the winds closely in relation to that, from a MET standpoint it is the most important thing right now.

On the ground back home though the wife is telling me there has been rolling black outs, food at the local storm is basiclly out. I'm happy we have our canned food stash that she laughed at me about for putting together. I said it was going to be useful one day.

There are plenty of relief organizations out there, in japan I know if your reading this you can take supplies to your local post office, there taking stuff there to send North.

Any how Just stopping in all. Stay safe out there!

YOU stay safe and thank you for your service!

That's great that locals in the southern part of Japan can drop off supplies to the post office to be delivered north.

[Ptarmigan]

Japan earthquake: Footage of moment tsunami hit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12725646

[Chacor]

I wouldn't read too much into that useless hype by the Sydney Morning Herald. We've already had one big aftershock (M7.4 says JMA; M7.1 says USGS) early on and I doubt we'll see an 8 as an aftershock.

[Chacor]

NHK reports that officials at Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant have confirmed a new explosion at Reactor #3, at 11 am JST.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/ ... SS20110314


Sadly, but not unexpected, about 2,000 bodies were found on shores of Japan's Miyagi prefecture: Kyodo.

Hopefully the newly reported tsunami (according to CNN and Reuters) won't take them out to sea. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/ ... SS20110314

[Bunkertor]

:uarrow: Amazing videos. I wonder how much more we can do to stop tsunamis. I advise no one read the comment on the videos though. They are senseless and truly annoying.

I try not to read youtube comments as they always seem to came from small kids or people without a grain of sensitivity.

Astonishing. They roll in sec by sec. Must be sort of a new world order.

[Brent]

BreakingNews: USS Reagan sailed by a radioactive cloud exposing members on deck to a month's worth of radiation in an hour - nytimes http://nyti.ms/hw6xl0

[RL3AO]

BreakingNews: USS Reagan sailed by a radioactive cloud exposing members on deck to a month's worth of radiation in an hour - nytimes http://nyti.ms/hw6xl0

So they were exposed to half a CT scan worth of radiation?

[Chacor]

Utter fear-mongering, the NYT ought to be ashamed.

[HurricaneBill]

I wouldn't read too much into that useless hype by the Sydney Morning Herald. We've already had one big aftershock (M7.4 says JMA; M7.1 says USGS) early on and I doubt we'll see an 8 as an aftershock.

Don't forget the M7.2 foreshock a few days before.

[oaba09]

When the tsunami hit, I knew deep inside that the death toll would exceed 10,000....This is one of the few times that I hate being right....

Japan was prepared for the earthquake but unfortunately, they weren't prepared for the tsunami...I honestly have no idea how any country can prepare for tsunamis at this magnitude....

What scares me is the fact the 2004 tsunami and the recent one happened in indonesia and japan respectively....