8.8 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

joshtp

BOOM
wow

my thoughts are with.

projectsome wrote:

:shock: That's quite a few natural disasters since 2010, or the media are showing more than normal....

Luke 21:10

Richie63

The Big picture has photos up already
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/0 ... japan.html

projectsome

wordnumb wrote:

projectsome wrote:

If we had earthquakes etc over here, it may well benefit us espcially the DH riders... Mountains could appear out of erm nowhere.

As silver linings go, that's pretty tenuous.

Well done.

lol cheer up, think of it as a japanese version of rapture :roll:

Tel39

The Japanese 2012 Windsurfing Squad look keen. They've just arrived in Dover

bails87

yeehaamcgee wrote:

For a second there, I was about to interject and add that the moon does indeed have an effect on tidal strengths, and maybe these people had got it right...
THEN, I read the first two lines of your link

Plus there's the fact that tsunamis aren't tidal waves

Horrific scenes though, I'm sure I saw a mention of 88,000 people missing

Josh: Luke 21:10?

Then he added, "Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

Anonymous

joshtp wrote:

projectsome wrote:

:shock: That's quite a few natural disasters since 2010, or the media are showing more than normal....

Luke 21:10

What?

Yeehaa:-23:16
I don't believe in any religious stuff, but I'm curious to know the relevance of that passage

bails87

I assume it's meant to be some end of the world/something-written-in-the-bible-has-been-vaguely-reflected-in-a-modern-event-therefore-Jesus-is-coming-again type of thing.

Gazlar

Montevideoguy wrote:

getonyourbike wrote:

the problem with the nuclear reactor could get messy. If you don't know, I'll explain. Water wasn't going through a cooling system in a nuclear power station on a reactor. They tried to to use the emergency off switch, but it didn't work. So its overheating and they can't stop it, not good.

It really is amazing the sheer power of the earthquake and tsunami. I'm glad the death toll is so low though.

Death toll so far estimated at 1,000. Probably going to be much higher.

Its testament (and in no way belittling what has happened, which is absolutely horrific) to the amount of earthquake training and the forthought that goes into some building in Japan that the estimated death toll is "only" at 1000, I would not have been surprised, given the population of Japan if it had been 20 times that number. Take the quake in Haiti, that was a magnitude 7, each whole point in the scale is roughly 32 times the amount of energy, so a jump of 2 on the scale is over a thousand times more powerful an earthquake!

Briggo

getonyourbike wrote:

Briggo wrote:

Id be more worried about that reactor.

it could impact on the whole of asia and possibly further a field.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

*Crosses legs and holds balls, awaiting the inevitable to happen*

hoochylala

Outer structure of building that houses reactor at Fukushima plant appears to have blown off - NHK

Taken from ;

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2

:shock:

getonyourbike

I though for every number it was 10X more powerful. So if a quake was 1 on the Richter scale, then the 8.9 hit Japan is 100,000,000 more powerful. Basically, insanely powerful.

ctrlaltdel

Loss of cooling, reactor rods melting, containment building roof blown off... god this doesn't sound like Japan 2011, it sounds eerily like Ukraine 1986

Gazlar

getonyourbike wrote:

I though for every number it was 10X more powerful. So if a quake was 1 on the Richter scale, then the 8.9 hit Japan is 100,000,000 more powerful. Basically, insanely powerful.

it's 31.6 times the magnitude per whole number, each .2 on the scale is a doubling of the power

wordnumb

projectsome wrote:

wordnumb wrote:

projectsome wrote:

If we had earthquakes etc over here, it may well benefit us espcially the DH riders... Mountains could appear out of erm nowhere.

As silver linings go, that's pretty tenuous.

Well done.

lol cheer up, think of it as a japanese version of rapture :roll:

Yeah, yerself and Yeehaa read that different to how it was meant. I sometimes forget that the internet is a tool for selling stuff, not communicating blank irony. I certainly wasn't being sincere.

Now I'm being sincere: Poor crazy Japanese bastards + can we get some international rules about building reactors near to faultlines?

Richie63

ctrlaltdel wrote:

Loss of cooling, reactor rods melting, containment building roof blown off... god this doesn't sound like Japan 2011, it sounds eerily like Ukraine 1986

Quite a bit different as there was no containment building at the Ukraine site, so hopefully the Japanese situation while at first looks bad might turn out ok - as far as nuclear disasters go :shock:

Cleat Eastwood

I've got nuclear power station underpants. When they're too loose....chernobyl fallout.

blister pus

i was waiting for that one.

grats

cat_with_no_tail

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

I've got nuclear power station underpants. When they're too loose....chernobyl fallout.

Tea...all over monitor.

getonyourbike

partial meltdown!

The Northern Monkey

Did I hear today that they're predicting another earthquake soon? around 7 on the richter scale..

If so, even more bad times are ahead

Kept hearing about the 1000's of bodies washing up on the shore and that the Japanese don't have enough body bags

sandy hill

BBC News tonight went from pumping sea water into the reactor to cool it down to bodies washing up on the beach. An unfortunate link I think.

On an ironic note, whilst sat in the cafe at work watching the scenes of devastion in Japan a colleagues mobile went off. The ringtone? OMD Enola Gay!

The Northern Monkey

This is starting to hit the UK too... 3 of our potentail customers withdrew from proceedings for a few weeks as they're not sure if they still have factories :shock:

supersonic

One thing with nuclear power stations is they always play it down at first - no chance of leaks, meltdowns etc. Rarely true.

By now though however, if the SCRAM safety system has worked and stopped fission, the residual heat from the decay products will have lowered substantially, reducing the risk of meltdown as time goes by. Flood it with seawater though and it is goodbye to the reactor, then they have to move quick before the thing corrodes. The danger is the fuel rods melting, mixing with water then exploding, blowing the reactor vessel to pieces.

getonyourbike

Gazlar wrote:

getonyourbike wrote:

I though for every number it was 10X more powerful. So if a quake was 1 on the Richter scale, then the 8.9 hit Japan is 100,000,000 more powerful. Basically, insanely powerful.

each .2 on the scale is a doubling of the power

wait, so i was right if this is true. The guy off Bang goes the theory said the same thing as me. 0.2 X 5 = 10 so each whole number is 10X the power.

Anonymous

getonyourbike wrote:

0.2 X 5 = 10

No it isn't.

supersonic

Let's not get mixed up with power and energy though ;-)

Each step up in magnitude on the MMS scale is an increase of 10^1.5 or 31.62. Two steps up is 1000x the energy release.

This doesn't however mean it will feel 1000 times stronger.

Daz555

Meltdown not also that bad either according to the experts on TV today. The core will melt and fall into the containment unit below. It will then of course cost billions to clear the site and decommission the facility if that happens.

The Northern Monkey

yeehaamcgee wrote:

getonyourbike wrote:

0.2 X 5 = 10

No it isn't.

bennett_346

getonyourbike wrote:

0.2 X 5 = 10

As your name suggests, get back on your bike and carry on...

getonyourbike

yeehaamcgee wrote:

getonyourbike wrote:

0.2 X 5 = 10

No it isn't.

what a sheepscunt (me) 0.2*5=1
sonic- mms scale?

I'm confused!