Earthquake off Japan

[TimothyC]

7.9 and 24 km deep, and 150 km from shore, CNN is running a live feed of the Tsunami hitting Japan. No link as of yet.

Edit: They are now saying it was an 8.8, a near 900% increase in power.

[Shroom Man 777]

A live feed of a tsunami hitting Japan? Holy shi. Man.

What other areas, outside Japan, are at risk? I live in the Asia-Pacific.

[TimothyC]

Well you might not be at risk John, but yeah, all of the Pacific basin could be effected (not big effects, but potentially higher than usual waves).

[Kodiak]

Yeah, everything's saying 8.8 now. Jesus H, that's a huge quake. I haven't seen any reports of damage yet, but they'll be coming for sure.

[Ilya Muromets]

A live feed of a tsunami hitting Japan? Holy shi. Man.

What other areas, outside Japan, are at risk? I live in the Asia-Pacific.

How far off do you live from shore, mang?

At any rate, Cebu is relatively safe anyway. Given the direction of the quake's epicenter, there's most of Luzon and the Nothern Visayas protecting us. I'm more concerned about the potential risk for my relatives in those areas.

[Shroom Man 777]

Well, yeah, just because I might not be swept away doesn't mean a whole other load of people outside Japan are safe.

I just wanna know how this'll affect other guise. Like, for example, Hong Kong or something.

[TimothyC]

Ok, now it's an 8.9. That's just shy of what the Ache quake was.

Edit: CNN is saying that the Warnings now include Japan, Russia, Guam, the Marianas, and Taiwan, With Warning for other pacific islands including The Philippians and Papua New Guninea.

Shroom, they are saying it gets to your country at around 0945 GMT.

[Ilya Muromets]

Well, yeah, just because I might not be swept away doesn't mean a whole other load of people outside Japan are safe.

I just wanna know how this'll affect other guise. Like, for example, Hong Kong or something.

Well, according to most sources I can see so far, the damage was relatively minor and the tsunami risk to other places was deemed minimal. Of course, "relatively minor" considering the past quakes and tsunamis in Japan to relate it to is still pretty fucking bad.

EDIT: Oh, wait, update now. Apparently there's been evacuation alerts for Russia and the Marianas.

[Sea Skimmer]

The quake was 80 miles offshore, and no signs seem to have appeared of major underwater landslides which are what cause really large tsunamis. So its looking a lot like Japan dodged the bullet. The wave that struck shore is being described as 4 meters high.

[Xisiqomelir]

I'm watching the AJE live feed and the tsunamis are just not stopping.

EDIT: Link

[TimothyC]

I'm watching the AJE live feed and the tsunamis are just not stopping.

EDIT: Link

Well that's to be expected when you see data like this from the USGS:

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	MAG 	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s 	LAT(deg) 	LON(deg) 	DEPTH(km) 	 Region
MAP 	6.3 	2011/03/11 06:57:14  	  35.758 	140.992  	30.2  	 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 	6.3 	2011/03/11 06:48:47  	  37.993 	142.764  	22.3  	 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 	7.1 	2011/03/11 06:25:51  	  38.074 	144.559  	26.5  	 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 	6.8 	2011/03/11 06:15:45  	  36.126 	140.234  	30.2  	 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 	6.4 	2011/03/11 06:07:21  	  36.401 	141.862  	35.4  	 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 	6.4 	2011/03/11 06:06:11  	  39.025 	142.316  	25.1  	 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 	8.9 	2011/03/11 05:46:23  	  38.322 	142.369  	24.4  	 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

[Sea Skimmer]

Crap, according to that live feed reports now are coming of a 10 meter tsunami hitting.

[Xisiqomelir]

[Exonerate]

The Japan Meteorological Agency is reporting it as an 8.4 (JMA).

[Sea Skimmer]

It looks the waves have swept away, but not always physically destroyed houses to depths of several hundred meter from the shoreline, and flooded the streets at least much as two miles inland confirmed from the air.

Edit: a 1 meter high tsunami has been detected moving outward in the Pacific. That's 1 meter in deep water, it would be much higher hitting the shore. Anyone on the Pacific rim should start taking any warnings very dead serious

[Xisiqomelir]

Guam to be evacuated

CBS5 says tsunami watch, not warning, for Cali.

Official warnings:

A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR
JAPAN / RUSSIA / MARCUS IS. / N. MARIANAS / GUAM / WAKE IS. /
TAIWAN / YAP / PHILIPPINES / MARSHALL IS. / BELAU / MIDWAY IS. /
POHNPEI / CHUUK / KOSRAE / INDONESIA / PAPUA NEW GUINEA /
NAURU / JOHNSTON IS. / SOLOMON IS. / KIRIBATI / HOWLAND-BAKER /
HAWAII / TUVALU / PALMYRA IS. / VANUATU / TOKELAU / JARVIS IS. /
WALLIS-FUTUNA / SAMOA / AMERICAN SAMOA / COOK ISLANDS / NIUE /
AUSTRALIA / FIJI / NEW CALEDONIA / TONGA / MEXICO /
KERMADEC IS / FR. POLYNESIA / NEW ZEALAND / PITCAIRN /
GUATEMALA / EL SALVADOR / COSTA RICA / NICARAGUA / ANTARCTICA /
PANAMA / HONDURAS / CHILE / ECUADOR / COLOMBIA / PERU

[Ilya Muromets]

Okay, fuck, now I hope it's not that bad. I have relatives in shoreline cities up north.

[CaptainChewbacca]

CNN Vid of the waves

The dead are going to be in the thousands, and for an added bonus there's a few nuclear plants on that coast.

[Uraniun235]

Latest word from the Japanese government is that those plants have already automatically shut down.

[CaptainChewbacca]

Latest word from the Japanese government is that those plants have already automatically shut down.

Submerge a reactor for 6 hours, things get kooky. I know they're designed to seal off, but there's always chance.

[The Romulan Republic]

I have family in Victoria, on Vancover Island. Not sure if their's a watch or warning in place their, but I hope they're not anywhere near the waterfront. Fortunately my mother's house is quite far in land, so I'm not too worried.

Anyway, my prayers and condolences to anyone in the effected areas.

[cosmicalstorm]

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Just watched this live feed, holy fuck there were a dozen boats chasing cars down a fucking road in the middle of a farm field filmed from a chopper, some of them were burning. That was surreal. I hope Japan will be good, but this looks like it will be bad.

[Xisiqomelir]

Hawaii tsunami impact forecast for 0259 HST

[CaptainChewbacca]

Hawaii tsunami impact forecast for 0259 HST

What is that mainland time? Its too late/early for timezone conversions.

On a related note, I know what I'll be talking about in geology class with my students today.

Edit: Yeah, there's a Japanese oil refinery on fire on CNN. Fuck.

[Xisiqomelir]

Hawaii tsunami impact forecast for 0259 HST

What is that mainland time? Its too late/early for timezone conversions.

You live in NorCal, right? HST is PST-2, so 0459 California time.