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9.0 Earthquake strikes Japan


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take it ez....ur on edge during the whole thread. people want to ask questions, let them. your not the law. stop trying to belittle folks......

Thank you! Agree take a chill pill at least ppl are not posting tin foil hat links to crazy theories and 2012

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Really hoping that's a typo on Kyodo.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/

BREAKING NEWS: Radiation 1,000 times higher than normal detected at nuke plant: safety panel

Well you have 8x at the gate and 1000x around the control room.

At this point it doesn't appear to be catastrophic and the larger evacuation was a necessary precaution.

From what I gather is that they are using the 2nd backup stage of the cooling process and still have the 3rd backup if needed with the generators on the way from the US.

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Anybody watching NHK world service - what's the name of the town they're talking about? Shigezawa?

Clearly the water made it over two stories and possibly three.

WLIW?? i keep hearing Minamisoma, in Fukushima Prefecture, but i don't know if that's the same city you're talking about

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WLIW?? i keep hearing Minamisoma, in Fukushima Prefecture, but i don't know if that's the same city you're talking about

That's the city they're showing now - I was wondering about the city they showed just before.

It's pretty blatantly obvious the death toll will be in the tens of thousands.

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I am noticing several things on the live shots

the water is still very deep.....looks like the water is trapped in the lower areas and not draining out

they are showing scores of homes that look like they have been hit by an F4/F5 tornado some with only foundations left

several large fires still burning

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I am noticing several things on the live shots

the water is still very deep.....looks like the water is trapped in the lower areas and not draining out

It's not trapped. The land just dropped. Just like the forests killed by saltwater in the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.

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I don't even know how to post this...

Ok, here goes...

Japanese news agency Kyodo reports 88,000 people are missing.

http://www.mediaite....le-are-missing/

UPDATE: The post originally quoted from a Kyodo news report that 88,000 people were missing. It is now appearing that the number might be much, much smaller and that that number may have in fact come from a typo or mistranslation

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Multiple reactors are now having cooling problems at the Fukushima plant.

I was about to comment on this. It appears they are having issues with rising pressures as well. Not sure which plant, though.

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I posted a link. Please post a link where you're getting this from.

I heard that on the news driving home - the guy, who was reporting from LA (from CBS) was saying they were trying to get more information about it because it seemed too high. But they wanted to report it to let people know that there are indeed a lot of people missing, just how much is really unknown.

But one has to think, a town of 70K+ is on fire... how many got out safe before the fires spread? How many evacuated in the 15 minutes they had before the tsunami hit?

We may never know how many are dead/missing.

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Multiple reactors are now having cooling problems at the Fukushima plant.

It's a second plant that is having the problems. The cooling system of 3 of the reactors are malfunctioning. This plant is around 7 miles south of the other plant where pressure is rising.

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I heard that on the news driving home - the guy, who was reporting from LA (from CBS) was saying they were trying to get more information about it because it seemed too high. But they wanted to report it to let people know that there are indeed a lot of people missing, just how much is really unknown.

But one has to think, a town of 70K+ is on fire... how many got out safe before the fires spread? How many evacuated in the 15 minutes they had before the tsunami hit?

We may never know how many are dead/missing.

The town they were showing on NHK earlier (Minamisanriku) with 3 buildings in downtown still standing and everything else GONE had a population of 20,000.

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