Scuddz Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Oh, here we go. Let's scare the bejesus out of everyone on the west coast MSNBC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Oh, here we go. Let's scare the bejesus out of everyone on the west coast MSNBC... What did they say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derecho! Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 not sure if it means anything the in the past hr but qaukes are creeping south and now a decent size done(5.1) where the two faults meet From Nature: http://www.nature.co...s.2011.156.html The sequence of quakes has probably also affected the stress field further south along the fault zone, critically increasing the earthquake risk in the Tokyo region, he says. "There is a strong interaction of quakes along a subduction zone, and we can certainly expect a number of major aftershocks in the next weeks," he says. "Some may be as large as, or even stronger than, the quake that last month devastated Christchurch in New Zealand. And chances are that another very large shock could occur to the south near Tokyo." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuddz Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Had some jackass on discussing how 3 of the 4 corners of the ring of fire have ruptured in the past year, chile, christchurch, and Japan. And there's a likelihood the 4th one, West Coast, will soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Had some jackass on discussing how 3 of the 4 corners of the ring of fire have ruptured in the past year, chile, christchurch, and Japan. And there's a likelihood the 4th one, West Coast, will soon That's just what people want to hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Not that I believe that sort of stuff, but that's pretty scary. LOL If you don't believe it how can it be scary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moneyman Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 It's scary in context. Odd how that played out and then with all the people saying the world is going to end in Dec. 2012 etc, just very odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Not that I believe that sort of stuff, but that's pretty scary. Just coincidence. 3-11-04 was the date of the Madrid bombings but that doesn't make March 11 any more volatile than any other date on the calendar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k*** Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 It's scary in context. Odd how that played out and then with all the people saying the world is going to end in Dec. 2012 etc, just very odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southland Wx Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Unsure if this was posted. Coast Guard video from Crescent City on Friday. Pretty awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalicwx366 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 A volcano just erupted in Japan. Nevermind someone already mentioned it. Now TWC says the deathtoll could top 10,000. WOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwt Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 EVen 10,000 probably is a lowball amount given the total destruction of some cities along the coastal waters...hope not but I think that will end up being the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derecho! Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 NHK world has some great ( but sad) stuff on right now. Didn't catch the town name, but they had a 10 meter seawall they built at great expense after the 1933 Sanrikyu tsumami; this tsunami went over it and trashed the town as if it wasn't there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 A volcano just erupted in Japan. Nevermind someone already mentioned it. Now TWC says the deathtoll could top 10,000. WOW Old news. And again, I wouldn't be completely shocked if it hit 100,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derecho! Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 A volcano just erupted in Japan. Nevermind someone already mentioned it. There's usually at least one volcano in Kyushu erupting or sputtering at any given time. The volcano is about as far as you can get from the earthquake in the main Japanese Islands as you can get. You're seeing the "attention effect" in action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburns Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 EVen 10,000 probably is a lowball amount given the total destruction of some cities along the coastal waters...hope not but I think that will end up being the case. Whatever the death toll ends up being it will be much lower than if this had occurred in any other similarly populated area anywhere on earth. One thing that astounds me as much as anything that has happened is the almost total absence of people fleeing on foot as the wave came through the towns and cities. With only a few minutes warning it seems as if the vast majority of people managed to get to higher ground before the waves arrival. Try and imagine the same scenario in any American city given 45 minutes warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sojitodd Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 NHK world has some great ( but sad) stuff on right now. Didn't catch the town name, but they had a 10 meter seawall they built at great expense after the 1933 Sanrikyu tsumami; this tsunami went over it and trashed the town as if it wasn't there. I posted about this earlier-I think it was Taro(now part of Miyako) in Iwate. The town was hit badly in 1896 and 1933. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Whatever the death toll ends up being it will be much lower than if this had occurred in any other similarly populated area anywhere on earth. One thing that astounds me as much as anything that has happened is the almost total absence of people fleeing on foot as the wave came through the towns and cities. With only a few minutes warning it seems as if the vast majority of people managed to get to higher ground before the waves arrival. Try and imagine the same scenario in any American city given 45 minutes warning. Yes, the Japanese are definitely much more disaster-conscious than Americans. The tsunami warning siren went blaring and everyone headed for the hills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowacane Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 It's scary in context. Odd how that played out and then with all the people saying the world is going to end in Dec. 2012 etc, just very odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallow Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Had some jackass on discussing how 3 of the 4 corners of the ring of fire have ruptured in the past year, chile, christchurch, and Japan. And there's a likelihood the 4th one, West Coast, will soon Considering the Christchurch quake was a local non-subduction quake, that's pretty ridiculous. However, it is interesting (to me) that there have been three to four large subduction quakes since 2004 around the Pacific Basiin, even though one (two, actually) was on the Indian Ocean side of Indonesia. But there are still several subduction areas around the Pacific that haven't slipped... the Pac NW, Alaska and the Aleutians, Kamchatka, Southern Japan/Taiwan, Central America, north of New Zealand, the Philippines, northeast of Australia, and off of Peru. If there was a connection between slippage along various parts of the "plate" boundary, any of those spots would potentially be at higher risk. That they're focusing solely on the west coast (they're probably even thinking Cali, which isn't on a subduction zone) is not surprising, though... people are dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 It's scary meaningless in context. Not at all Odd how that played out and then with all the people stupid dumbasses saying the world is going to end in Dec. 2012 etc, just totally meaningless very odd. FYP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnc Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 NHK world has some great ( but sad) stuff on right now. Didn't catch the town name, but they had a 10 meter seawall they built at great expense after the 1933 Sanrikyu tsumami; this tsunami went over it and trashed the town as if it wasn't there. I was watching that. It looks like they had two walls... they were huge too. Even if the tsunami wasn't 10m high, just the force of it would probably have been enough to overrun the walls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 FYP I want just 1% of the people (even in my town, lets say) who think the world will end in 2012 to sign over their personal things to me effective Jan 1, 2013 Goobers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Unsure if this was posted. Coast Guard video from Crescent City on Friday. Pretty awesome. Interesting video, thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sojitodd Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 NHK world has some great ( but sad) stuff on right now. Didn't catch the town name, but they had a 10 meter seawall they built at great expense after the 1933 Sanrikyu tsumami; this tsunami went over it and trashed the town as if it wasn't there. I was watching that. It looks like they had two walls... they were huge too. Even if the tsunami wasn't 10m high, just the force of it would probably have been enough to overrun the walls. It was Taro. Here is an article a link to an article about it's wall. Very sad reading given what has happened now. http://www.thefreeli...lt.-a0138025696 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwt Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Old news. And again, I wouldn't be completely shocked if it hit 100,000. Yeah exactly! The worrying thing is as others have said this has happened with a really prepared country, does make you think what would happen if it occured with somewhere that was totally unprepared for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalicwx366 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I want just 1% of the people (even in my town, lets say) who think the world will end in 2012 to sign over their personal things to me effective Jan 1, 2013 Goobers The world is not going to end. This planet has been here for a long long long time. How can it just end on one day out of a sudden doesn't make sense. The yellowstone volcano has erupted before like 250,000 thousands years ago and has no signs of just appearing in 2012. The solar activity is way lower than whatever that mess they predicted thats why they revised it like 5 times. And then somehow a planetX is supposed to appear and......I don't know then somehow a pole will reverse and a galatic alignment all on DEC21 2012. Thats stupid. Dumb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derecho! Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Interesting video, thanks for posting! Last part of the video has a crab boat leaving DURING the tsunami - fortunately made it. I don't understand why every boat in the harbor didn't just leave, go 10-20 miles offshore, and just chill out for 6 hours; the tsunami time was forecast pretty precisely, and they would have had plenty of time to do so. Especially if your a commercial fisherman and your boat is your livelyhood. Maybe some boats did. I hope they check the pilings on those bridges for scour - I wouldn't want to drive across them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 The world is not going to end. This planet has been here for a long long long time. How can it just end on one day out of a sudden doesn't make sense. The yellowstone volcano has erupted before like 250,000 thousands years ago and has no signs of just appearing in 2012. The solar activity is way lower than whatever that mess they predicted thats why they revised it like 5 times. And then somehow a planetX is supposed to appear and......I don't know then somehow a pole will reverse and a galatic alignment all on DEC21 2012. Thats stupid. Dumb Just to be clear, Yellowstone last erupted 600,000 years ago and the area is indeed actively volcanic. There is zero possibility that an eruption of the park would end life on Earth or even in the Western US. It would however most likely disrupt crop output over a wide area of the midwest for a season depending on what time of year it erupted. Therefore it is a much more plausible event then let's say a Planet X or grand celestial alignment. Planet X fantasies are just hilarious because they suggests a planet will somehow sneak up on the Earth and all of our astronomers, telescopes etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMolineuxLM1 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Last part of the video has a crab boat leaving DURING the tsunami - fortunately made it. I don't understand why every boat in the harbor didn't just leave, go 10-20 miles offshore, and just chill out for 6 hours; the tsunami time was forecast pretty precisely, and they would have had plenty of time to do so. Especially if your a commercial fisherman and your boat is your livelyhood. Maybe some boats did. I hope they check the pilings on those bridges for scour - I wouldn't want to drive across them. Not so sure 10 or 20 miles would have been enough to just ride it out, i would have thought 40-60 miles out would be much safer as that tsunami was traveling at a high rate of speed it still could have brought those boats close enough to beach them at 10 to 20 miles, although i am not good at all these figures but still 10 to 20 seems way too close, you can see how tough it was for that crab boat leaving the harbor it has a big fight on its hands and it seemed that it had much more to fight through to get into a bit safer waters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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