Japan Earthquake
 

Another disaster, this one isnt looking good on the news.

Japan earthquake: Tsunami causes major damage after large earthquake hits Japan | Mail Online

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Just watching the news.

Terrible.

The world having so many cameras really brings home the horror.

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They are calling it a mega earthquake on the news its that big and causing that much damage.

Tsunami is bigger than some of the islands its going to hit, it looks aggressive on the news.

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It is like watching one of those horror movies(you watch, but you really don't want to see what you are seeing)...except, it is real and has terrible implications for all the islands on the Pacific Rim.
I feel for the people whose lives have been affected by these tragic happenings.

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Yes ive seen it on the news,its bad news and sad.

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There is a likely link between solar flares and earth crust activity
http://www.khalilov.biz/pdf/About%20...vities%203.pdf

During the night of 10th/11th there was an M class solar flare (see thumbnail)

The current solar cycle will peak next year.
We can expect more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
A way to be forewarned is to monitor the sun.
Current Solar Data: NOAA data

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It does make you think though, this planet is obviously not happy with the human race pushing it to past its capabilities. Its very sad :(

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That is interesting Margaret.
My daughters little boy(7, but going on 27) was asking me this morning(after watching the news footage) if the earthquakes had anything to do with solar flares......I told him truthfully, that I didn't know....now, when he gets home from school I can tell him.

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CO2 emissions are a minor factor in the cause of earth changes.
If you didn't read this link last time I posted it, you may want to read it now, in order to increase your understanding.

PLANETOPHYSICAL STATE OF THE EARTH AND LIFE

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Its hit Hawaii now :(

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Environment Canada has issued Tsunami warnings for British Columbia.

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This alert was on Google early this morning



'Tsunami Alert for New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and others. Waves expected over the next few hours, caused by 8.9 earthquake in Japan.'

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Just when you think it can't get any worse, the Fukushima nuclear plant is having problems. If the emergency cooling system can't cope ......

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theyre saying an aftershock of 6.6 has hit central japan now ...

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Its only when you see things like this happening around the world that it makes you think how lucky we are in this country, the only thing we have to bother about is our bad winter weather

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You forgot the biggest problem.
Politicians.
They enter parliment like bananas going into storage.
They go in green, turn yellow, and come out bent.
Retlaw.

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theyve just had another earthquake .. saying it has hit 6 on the scale near where the nuclear plants are ...

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Was talking about the environment Walter, things we have no control of what-so-ever

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So he was right, politicians!

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Not in the context I used it in no

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How are we to know what context, if any, you are attempting to use, unless you tell us?
:confused:

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Think I'll join mick in the calm room, read my first post :cool:

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Bad winter weather:eek:

:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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Well, Eric it is relative......it was bad for us.......you are used to it!

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I wouldn't worry about it, hon. It appears to be quite normal to put a funny face on tragedy. I don't know why, but it always happens. One could maybe call it the "Fat Lady Slipping on a Banana" syndrome. Siegfried Sassoon wrote a poem that sort of addresses the problem; it's called "Blighters".

However, I've just heard a report that the danger zone around the damaged reactor has been extended big time. Meanwhile, the Japanese government is saying that everything will be ok. I don't be thinking so.

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if any "radiation" gets into the Jetstream it will be Alaska, B.C. and Washington State who will be the Canaries in the coalmine.

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theyre saying 170,000 have been evacuated from the no 1 plant and 30,000 from the no 2 plant ....

BBC News - Japan quake: Exodus from around Fukushima nuclear plant

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In a situation such as the one taking place in Japan, the "authorities" always begin by telling folks that there is nothing to worry about, that safety measures are being taken, etc. This is officialese for "it's time to head for the hills." Never did like the idea of nuclear power, or offshore drilling, or sending tankers through troubled waters, especially if the Captain is hammered out of his skull. Come to think of it, and you probably know more about this than we do, didn't some numbnuts once want to place a nuclear power plant on the San Andreas Fault.:rolleyes:?

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Most be a lot of Japs called Shima!:confused:

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The Japs do seem to have a problem with 'owt nuclear, don't they?

Anyway, I've just done a quick calculation on that No 3 reactor that may be going into meltdown. It's the China Syndrome, except almost in reverse; if it does overheat and start plunging through the earth's core I reckon it will emerge in Ossy. I wonder if that will be a good thing or a bad thing?

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Via Church which would leave a 200% improvement;)

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good job it wont burn through to burnley you wouldnt be able to tell if the mutations were radiation related or genetic :eek:

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I thought it was Padiham that suffered with that problem(genetic mutations).

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i dont think tealeaf dated in padiham :D:D:D:D

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Thank goodness 'use by dates' are advice only - ie.use is not compulsory;)



Ridicule is not humour

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You never know Accyman....you never know!
Might have done, but kept it under his hat:)

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I often wondered whether that is where his is ;)

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god i hope not my youngest brother was concieved in padiham.This could explain why hes 6ft 4" and im only 5ft 11" :eek:

how talls tealeaf again ?

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This thread is in General Chat which is supposed to be for

I have removed all the jokes, please can we keep the jokes for the joke thread.

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the latest is that theres been another aftershock and another tsunami on its way ... to hit at the same spots that got hit on friday ....

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It was a very sad News and horrible
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If The China Syndrome could actually happen, a melting core from Fukushima would end up about 1,000 miles east-south-east of Buenos Aires, 1,300 miles north east of The Falklands. The only ones that could go through to Australia are in the southwest US states, and they'd get the southwest of Oz.

It's a moot exercise, anyway - A melting core would stop at the centre of the earth - it was only gravity directing it downwards, and once it's at the centre of the earth, there's no direction for it to go.

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That sounds plausible if you subscribe to the theory that the earth has a solid/molten core.
Maybe it doesn't, and is hollow- (as per Admiral Byrd who explored both polar regions in the late 40s)

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Blimey! And I though I'd done a serious scientific exercise. I shall have to get my piece of string out again and double-check my antipodes.

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There was me thinking you were a member of the flat earth society Tealeaf:rolleyes:

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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.

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Well Less they sucked a hell of a lot of stuff from beneath the earths surface, and there must be some sort of void being left or is it like your brain which fills up regularly with Railway lubrication:p:p:D

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maybe thats why they plug the offshore wells to stop the sea from draining away :D :D

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Just watching the news this morning and the amount of snow they have had aswell is stopping the work to get things back to normal.

I never knew they got snow over there that bad, didnt think it would make its way through the smog.

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Gosh never thought of that SJ:D

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Don't forget you have Sellafield up the street ... Chernobyl in slow motion!

The poet Norman Nicholson wrote a poem about his local Sellafield and paints the picture like no other can.

The toadstool towers infest the shore:
Stink-horns that propagate and spore
Wherever the wind blows.
Scafell looks down from the bracken band,
And sees all hell in a grain of sand,
And feels the canker itch between his toes.

This is a land where dirt is clean,
And poison pasture, quick and green,
And Storm sky, bright and bare;
Where sewers flow with milk, and meat
Is carved up for the fire to eat,
And children suffocate in God’s fresh air.

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Radiation levels are being censored and unreported

ALERT: Emergency Levels Of Japan Nuclear Radiation Found In Forecasts Censored From Public :
YouTube - Fukushima Xenon 133 Forecast May 8 2011 compressed.asf

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I know we can rely on you to keep an eye on things for us Margaret:cool:

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no need now Bee will do the job.:D:D:D

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theyve had another earthquake ....

BBC News - Earthquake jolts north-east Japan - no tsunami warning

in the same area of japan that the last one was .. but no reports of a tsunami this time ...

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Just been thinking cashy the poor Japs had the earthquake and what went with it and are just getting over it, the what happens:eek::eek::eek::eek:BEE arrives, the poor sods :D:D