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Not me, Jaysay; although I know there's at least a dozen of 'em on here.

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and we moan when it rains !!!

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Think thats a rather conservative estimate Tealeaf:rolleyes:

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Just came across these pictures, which show the true state of the disaster over there.

ABC News - Japan Earthquake: before and after

Just slide your mouse across the pictures, to show before and after.

Thoughts go out to all.

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If that were the case, the core would melt down to beyond halfway through the solid crust and eventually stop before it broke through to the empty bit - assuming the mass of the crust was equal the world over. How far it got beyond the halfway mark would be dependent on the amount of gravity generated by the opposite crust - so the thicker the earth's crust, the deeper the theoretical perpetually melting core would go.

It's easy enough to do if you have Google Earth. Just find the latitude and longitude you're interested in - make the latitude a negative, i.e. change north to south or vice versa. Subtract the longitude from 180 and make that a negative (i.e. change east to west or vice versa. So Accrington is at 53.75 north, 2.37 west, the opposite side of the world is 53.75 south, 177.63 east, which is a point in the Pacific 350 odd miles east of Campbell Island

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Things definitely seem to be getting worse over in Japan but they seem to be coping calmly & professionally with the situation, more so than has been evidenced in similar situations in the World when faced with a natural disaster.

Reading several articles about what is happening & how they are coping I came across this :-
Why is there no looting in Japan? – Telegraph Blogs

It strikes me as very profound when compared as mentioned to similar situations in our Worlds recently past history, why are the Japanese people seemingly more civilised & resilient in the face of such adversity than some other Countries ?

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I share the same thoughts, Dave. The Japanese throughout history have always demonstrated discipline and good order in society - unlike the weeping and wailing so evidently displayed by other cultures. Emotion can never be dismissed, but neither can bottling things up as we all tend to do from time to time. My heart goes out to the Japanese people as a whole . . . and shame on the God who has seemingly abandoned them.

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I had quite a lot of Japanese business contacts. They were utterly charming, professional, and very loyal.

I also had a couple of relatives in Japanese Prisoner of War camps, who didn't exactly share the same opinion as myself.

:rolleyes:

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Point taken, Garinda. It took a long time before the Japanese Emperor was obliged to apologise for the sins of the past. Notwithstanding that their are skeletons in the cupboards of all nations involved in the brutal conflicts that man has imposed on his fellow men throughout history.

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Were they the brutal guards or the poor prisoners?

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the third item on my local news tonight was a report on one of side effects of the Quake/Tsusami ...... warning folks that there will be a shortage in Northern California restaurants of Grade A Shusi .... the lead story was about the possible meltdowns at Japans nuclear power plants , the second story was about panic buying at local pharmacists/chemists here in California of Iodine supplements to combat radiation sickness ..... this News was reported on a supposedly 'reputable' channel (CBS), not one of Murdochs sleazoid channels (Fox/Sky) whose news is all about how civilized the Japanese and Kiwis are and don't rape/pillage/loot like the other folks (darkies) of other recent disasters
For those who complain about the BBC licence fee just be grateful for what you have and your news isn't dependant on ratings and advertising ££s

rant over ;) :D

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When you actually think about it, we've been taking resources from under the earths crust for the last 100 years or so (oil and gas) when these materials are drawn to the surface there must be a huge void left behind, to me its like an egg, remember when we were kids collecting birds eggs (its illegal now) you used to remove the licked through a pin hole just leaving the empty shell which then had to be kept in a box packed with cotton wool as they were saw fragile. It makes you think if this isn't have the same effect there must be some huge hollow spaces bellow the earths surface, somethings going to give sometime

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I thought we had put nuclear waste in some of the holes...they might not have been the ones the oil was taken from though.

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Is your brain hurting after all that thinking? Does it feel like it's going to implode and leave a great void within your skull?

Well don't worry Jay, the deepest mine in the world is TauTona in Carletonville, South Africa at 3.9 kilometers.

The average thickness of the Earths crust is 100 kilometers so, we are hardly scratching the surface, we aren't yet producing a planet resembling a Swiss cheese.
:)

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The method of extracting oil and natural gas from deep source rock is known as fracking
Hydraulic fracturing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is being used extensively in mid west USA and is causing concern, because the New Madrid fault line, which runs from the great lakes to the gulf, is showing disturbances -
...frequent low level earth tremors, sink holes and surface fissures.