nublikescake
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And they thought it wouldn't get that high.
Tsunami arrival in city. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ddf_1299959424
Tsunami at ground level. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S35Q5-XPLo0
Moving cracks and water seepage during earthquake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LPGzzaSsbU
That last one is seriously cool...and a bit disconcerting. I'd hate to be standing on "reclaimed land" and see that start happening. Liquefaction is a real concern in major earthquakes. I'd like to see a better quality video of that.
Inside Sendai airport during tsunami. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6iDBoOvb0
how did they go from estimated 2000 dead last night when i went to bed....to 10k this morning?
Sixty-year-old survivor Hiromitsu Shinkawa waves from wreckage, as crew members of Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) Aegis vessel Choukai rescue him.
there was 9-10k "missing" as of yesterday, half of some cities went missing. couldn't even imagine.
Talk about media sensationalism...
(sorry for the wall of text)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake
10K dead in Japan amid fears of nuclear meltdowns
"SENDAI, Japan – The estimated death toll from Japan's disasters climbed past 10,000 Sunday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns and hundreds of thousands of people struggled to find food and water.
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In the town of Minamisanrikucho, 10,000 people — nearly two-thirds of the population — have not been heard from since the tsunami wiped it out, a government spokesman said.
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Here's some more amazing (and terrible) pics:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/japans-earthquake---the-aftermath/100023/
Umm...you *do* realize that "official count" is a nonsense figure at this point, right? There was a point when the official count was 1. You're finally looking at an estimate instead of an official death toll and you're thinking it must be "bullshit" because it's so much higher.
10,000 sounds ridiculously low to me.
More than 230,000 died in the 2004 tsunami.
In 2004, the deaths were all from tsunami. A lot of it were because people wanted to see the waves. They had plenty of warnings.they werent as prepared as japan...japan has early warning systems up the ass....expert evacuation procedures, strict building codes....ect ect they know how to suvive earthquakes and tsunamis....the indian ocean tsunami was no where near the readiness of japan
Umm...you *do* realize that "official count" is a nonsense figure at this point, right? There was a point when the official count was 1. You're finally looking at an estimate instead of an official death toll and you're thinking it must be "bullshit" because it's so much higher.
10,000 sounds ridiculously low to me.
More than 230,000 died in the 2004 tsunami.
In 2004, the deaths were all from tsunami. A lot of it were because people wanted to see the waves. They had plenty of warnings.
Lol no they didn't. We are talking about RURAL SUMATRA.
"Bananas are radioactive enough to regularly cause false alarms on radiation sensors used to detect possible illegal smuggling of nuclear material at US ports."
Is that a banana in your pocket, or are you smuggling radioactive waste?
Before/After Satellite Image Rollover:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm
Just when I think I've exhausted my level of "holy shit!" for awhile.....that's one of the first I've seen that clearly shows the full-height tsunami. (Yes, I know, even a 6-foot tsunami is nothing to laugh at, but a 33-foot one is just insane. Just a 33-foot wave would be bad enough, but this kind of thing just keeps on coming.)Some crazy footage I found:
I don't think those guys driving survived.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9bTnvNjO8
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rural sumatra vs industrialized, urbanized, and technologically superior japan
easy to see why so many people died there vs japan
Here's some more amazing (and terrible) pics:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/japans-earthquake---the-aftermath/100023/
Many Indonesia Islands are stretch of low land shoal (sandbar), hence the ocean water completely swamped the islands from one side to the other side and washed everything out to sea.
The saving grace that Japan has is, it is mostly rocky highland that above the tsunami water level.
IMHO, there would be much more lost of life if Japan geography are lowlands like Indonesia be it industrialize/urbanized/technology superior. Unless every Japanese citizen have instantaneous flight capability.
and better evacuation procedures.....they are way better than in hawaii, and hawaii's are pretty efficient