Massive earthquake off Japan

[Mad_Aussie]

Tsunami warning has been issued, reports ranging between 7.8 and 8.8....

http://www.livestation.com/channels/10-bbc-world-news-english

This image made me lol... Those hats will save them!
http://i.imgur.com/Ji2G3.jpg

"massive tsunami just engulfed Iwate port"
"Cars were lifted off the ground and flipped over"
"Major tsunami reported to be happening now"

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/

IWATE PREF. TSUNAMI WARNING(MAJOR TSUNAMI)
MIYAGI PREF. TSUNAMI WARNING(MAJOR TSUNAMI)
FUKUSHIMA PREF. TSUNAMI WARNING(MAJOR TSUNAMI)

[V70R]

Get the long boards out.
Eddie would go.

[[FFOUR]]

I just flew back from Japan, good timing it seems!

[pgc]

;802158']I just flew back from Japan, good timing it seems!

Not for the Japanese Jan!

[DanWA]

owch, news.com.au says 6m tsunami :S

looks like prestige has some more grade 5 cars in their sights

[V70R]

HOLY FKN CRAP LOOK AT THE TSUNAMI FOOTAGE

[Mad_Aussie]

Just watching aljazeera live, three cars swept away live on camera... Those poor bastards, were trying to get away from the surge and the pingpingpingping in front of them stopped at the fucking light! rip.

[V70R]

Im looking at the http://www.livestation.com/channels/10-bbc-world-news-english site.
They have a 6m tsunami washing through now. So sad :(

[V70R]

shit, massive coast tsunami coming in now of Sendai!

[Mad_Aussie]

10m Tsunami inbound

Really glad we don't live on the Pacific ring of fire...

[JNR man]

The Whales are coming, and you thought you were safe (karma)

[Tones]

Tsunami warning has been extended to australia

[1JZNOSHIT]

hmmm, quite glad i didnt win a car i bid on at auction today in Japan :)

[Logie]

The end is nigh!

[MrMayhem]

I mailed one of my Japanese mates straight after, reply from my usally mellow friend

"na myself family and staff are ok.i havent felt that strong one in mylife ever that was fucken scary hey"

[SimonR32]

LIES.... No mates!

[MrMayhem]

Just becuase I regard you as ..... a person I've met

[Mad_Aussie]

Just heard that they've confirmed radiation has leaked from a damaged nuclear power plant.... But straight after saying that there's no official report of it..



This is where the zombie apocalypse begins.

[DanWA]

2012 is next year.............................................

[JNR man]

Just heard that they've confirmed radiation has leaked from a damaged nuclear power plant.... But straight after saying that there's no official report of it..



This is where the zombie apocalypse begins.

Hope they can contain it and keep it over there.
Its Chienese whispers but in Japan

[muniom]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=187729987929221&set=a.111033752265512.6685.109381855764035&ref=nf

part of the powervehicles garage looks to be hanging where a small landslide has occured... ebisu has suffered some damage too

[Anahera]

I guy I work with is on holiday in Japan.............

[DRKWRX]

Suddenly boring old perth seems pretty pretty good.

[TJ]

I guy I work with is on holiday in Japan.............

Same.

[V70R]

Suddenly boring old perth seems pretty pretty good.

Your house is currently being broken into.

[jaybee]

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

[shifted]

Karl @ PGC was showing me this when I picked up some stickers... shit is intense...

Random earthquake after earthquake... something is definitely up.

[mr_mike]

just watchin ABC news at the mo its crazy there is massive fishing boats just lifted up and dumper on land.
They are showing footage of an oil refinary burning then it exploded never seen anythin like it was unreal! just a massive ball of fire.

[SimonR32]

Random earthquake after earthquake... something is definitely up.

Not really, when the plates start shifting around the world it has a flow on effect...

Just wait till the san andreas fault moves, shit is going to go down then!

[ben351]

Im gonna start carrying scuba gear every where with me in 2012

[Mad_Aussie]

Just wait till the san andreas fault moves, shit is going to go down then!

Yeah, first Christchurch and now Japan, If I was living in Los Angeles I'd be getting the fuck out now.

[mr_mike]

there was that bloke on ACA that reckons he could predict where and when eartquakes would hit.
Japan was one of the places he listed aswell as the US and Russia

[protecon]

Get the long boards out.
Eddie would go.

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/03/11/bpr.quake.witness.cnn

[mr_mike]

wow ch7 just showed footage of the tidal wave sweeping thru the country just a massive wave of water pushing everything along over fields and shit

[Tre-Cool]

i suspect food prices are gonna start going up, time to start stocking up on tinned food.

[TJ]

there was that bloke on ACA that reckons he could predict where and when eartquakes would hit.
Japan was one of the places he listed aswell as the US and Russia

I can predict too - anywhere theres a fault line.

Ie America and Russia.

But yes, if I was in LA id be shitting bricks atm.

[Buckets]

I can predict too - anywhere theres a fault line.

Ie America and Russia.

But yes, if I was in LA id be shitting bricks atm.

Theres a distinct upward trend in the severity, LA should go for gold and get in to the 9's...

The world is fucked !

[Tocchi]

Godzilla getting slack these days and not protecting JapLand ?

I hope they are fine, well mainly the Hello Kitty store, stay brave you little white feline

[Lmx]

So has there been any guesstimates of how many are dead/uncounted for? any news channels throwing a number out there?

[JBAE]

69

[BOSS 290]

i suspect food prices are gonna start going up, time to start stocking up on tinned food.

So I guess you won't need to do much out of the ordinary.

[crabman]

How did the Jap's not predict this?? I thought that's what the whale hunting was for.....

So LA in 2/3 weeks yeah??

[Tre-Cool]

So I guess you won't need to do much out of the ordinary.

nah, i must admit my cupboards are pretty bare at the moment, so im going to start "walking the walk" ,it definetly does pay to have plenty of food stocked up for emergencies like power outages and shit. I'm not one of those people who goes to a liquer store to stock up on booze before a cyclone, i make sure i can eat for a week if shit turns bad.

I look at it this way, we had the floods over in qld down to nsw & vic, this affected a fair bit of farm land. farming down south hasnt been going that well recently either, we've had floods in carnarvan that affected the price & availability of fruit/veg.

wouldnt be asking too much for a cyclone to totally fuck up kunnunara and it's fruit/food production would be affected too.

Now i know this sounds all paranoid, but hey it doesnt hurt to be prepared.

Always used to take a 20lt's of water and food when i used to drive to remote minesites when i lived up north, Just incase....

[shifted]

Buy gold and silver while you still can...

[kurbn]

hope the nissan factory is ok, I need more shit for my car.

That footage of the water taking out everything looked like something out of the 2012 movie, normally im a bit desensitised by shit on TV and just kind of expect bad things on the news and go meh.. the footage of that wave had me going farrrrrrrrk

[Tre-Cool]

Buy gold and silver while you still can...

I dont think that's quite neccesary for us. were not trillions of dollars in debt and have a reserve bank just printing money, zimbabwe style.

if the shit going on in the middle east doesnt sort out soon, you CAN expect food & goods to go up though. It's a given due to large amount of transport that is done via trucks in australia and im sure you know what they run on...

[Fukushima]

I can predict too - anywhere theres a fault line.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire.svg/796px-Pacific_Ring_of_Fire.svg.png

[mr_mike]

hope the nissan factory is ok, I need more shit for my car.

That footage of the water taking out everything looked like something out of the 2012 movie, normally im a bit desensitised by shit on TV and just kind of expect bad things on the news and go meh.. the footage of that wave had me going farrrrrrrrk

same dude i was watchin the footage of the wave rolling and you could c these poor pingpingpingpings in there cars tryin to turn round or get on road that went the opposite direction.

[V70R]

Biggest threat for a mega Tsunami is on the Canary Islands, when that cliff falls off the mountain and into the Atlantic - off Africas west coast.

[zeroyon]

Nasty nasty stuff. really feel for Japan. Its also going to hurt the whole world.

Death toll going up ....


apanese police have found 200 to 300 bodies on a beach at Sendai. NHK television said the victims appeared to have drowned. Police are now putting the death toll at 88 with 349 missing, not including the bodies found at Senda

[zeroyon]

Markets could get interesting, people already pulling cash out.

Also pretty scary


Japan accounted for more than $37 billion worth of Australian exports last year

[1JZVL]

:(

[Tre-Cool]

apparently having problems cooling a reactor after shutdown.

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Under Japanese law, authorities are mandated to issue a nuclear emergency if the cooling mechanisms fail, and they did exactly that for the first time in Japan’s history after it became clear that attempts to cool the reactor were “not going as planned”.

Fukushima No. 1 is one of the largest nuclear plants in the world and has eight separate units located on the site. Thankfully, so far there’s no evidence of any radioactive leakage.

“Regarding our nuclear power facilities, so far no radioactive material has been leaked to the outside. Given the situation, an emergency disaster response has been set up as myself as a head. We will secure the safety of the people of Japan. We ask the people of Japan to act calmly,” said Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

The Tokyo Electric Power Co says it faces a shortage of electrical capacity to cool its reactors, but as Time Magazine points out, “The reactors at Fukushima should will have multiple, redundant safety features installed to help cool reactor cores and prevent meltdown so its unclear what the company means by a “shortage of capacity.”

[JNR man]

This is HUGE

[James_2007]

427 dead so far.

[mr_mike]

Markets could get interesting, people already pulling cash out.

Also pretty scary

they were talkin to a financial analyst on the morning show he was saying that while it is a bad thing because its japan they have strict building codes etc so damage would of been alot worse if it was somewhere like the US. Japan will recover quickly.

He also said this is a good thing for Australia as Japan is going to need our resources to rebuild.

[zeroyon]

Problem is that it is going to take 6-12 months to simply clear away the crap before they rebuild. During that time zero need for our resources.

There well over 1000 dead now I believe. There so many missing also.

Nuclear radiation will also now have to be released to avoid total failure.

Any one that thinks nuclear power is the way forward for Australia have a look at this now .....

[mr_mike]

Problem is that it is going to take 6-12 months to simply clear away the crap before they rebuild. During that time zero need for our resources.

There well over 1000 dead now I believe. There so many missing also.

Nuclear radiation will also now have to be released to avoid total failure.

Any one that thinks nuclear power is the way forward for Australia have a look at this now .....

the same argument could be used against oil refinarys after watching that one in Japan explode and take out a huge area.

[schnoods]

the same argument could be used against oil refinarys after watching that one in Japan explode and take out a huge area.

then compare the oil refinery to the Chenobyl Disaster.

[SimonR32]

then compare the oil refinery to the Chenobyl Disaster.

Chenobyl was a fuck up not a accident...

[V70R]

Any one that thinks nuclear power is the way forward for Australia have a look at this now .....

Australia is not on the ring of fire and we do not have the capacity for such earth quakes.

[RICEY]

Has anyone predicted the world ending anytime soon because mother nature is kicking ass all over the planet lately...

[RICEY]

Australia is not on the ring of fire and we do not have the capacity for such earth quakes.

Pretty sure we've had quakes in the mid 7s? That would be enough to cause some serious damage...

[SircatmaN]

Lucky for Perth we are right on the middle of our plate!

[Sully]

we've had a fair few shakes here, it's just that none have hit Perth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquakes_in_Western_Australia

[DRKWRX]

then compare the oil refinery to the Chenobyl Disaster.

the way Nuclear Power Stations are designed these days a Chernobyl wouldn't happen.

[earlybirds]

http://totallycoolpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11032011_japan_earthquake/japan_014.jpg

and ......

http://totallycoolpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11032011_japan_earthquake/japan_017.jpg

BANG !!!

http://totallycoolpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11032011_japan_earthquake/japan_043.jpg

second set ?

http://totallycoolpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11032011_japan_earthquake/japan_054.jpg

[1JZNOSHIT]

R33 and Soarers finally returned to their natural habitat :)

[kirbo]

Fukushimas reactor just blew up.... FUUUUUUUU

[TJ]

Jesus.

[fourseven]

http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/438/fallout.jpg

[Lonewolf]

i dont believe its melted down, just an explosion...
But yeah if it melts down thats clearly very bad shit.

[JNR man]

Fuckin Bang Bang and check out that Ship

[BIGS]

Watching sky news now. Not good

[jesstamic]

Whole heap of photos if anyones interested:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/

[waxdass]

750 rads = 7.5 mili seiverts absorbed dose.

Thats a pretty dangerous dose....
The maximum European standard is 7.5 micro Sv/h, for joe public to be safe to be exposed to. Australian standards are at 20 micro Sv/h.

[_oz]

link doesnt work ?

[BIGS]

That was one huge explosion!! Apparently leaks not too bad. I'm hope they aren't just saying that to keep everyone calm.

[jesstamic]

link doesnt work ?

Link fixed

[Mad_Aussie]

http://i.imgur.com/V9aab.png

facepalm

[BIGS]

Now they are predicting a possible meltdown. But believe it should only affect an area of 10sq km. Here's hoping there isn't another quake.

[BIGS]

http://i.imgur.com/V9aab.png

facepalm

Everyone should look for him on fb and flame the **** out of him until he either cuts his wrists or hangs himself

[_oz]

friend request sent, gonna flame his wall hard

[Matty180]

Send him to /b/

[JBAE]

Cannot wait for the zombies to start popping up!!! soo goot! starting to stock pile ammo now!!!!!

ahaha 2012 muppets would be loving this crap

[RICEY]

Can zombies swim?

[1JZVL]

Can zombies swim?

They'd float on wreckage etc :(

[fourseven]

Fukushima nuclear plant does not have a combustible graphite core like Chernobyl. A total meltdown should flow into underground containment.


Radiation leaked into the atmosphere in the steam has a incredibly small half-life that is measured in seconds.

Good news.

Even after an earthquake, and tsunami, it hasn't gone into meltdown. Nuclear power is clearly safer than the media would have us believe.

[Logie]

Cannot wait for the zombies to start popping up!!! soo goot! starting to stock pile ammo now!!!!!

ahaha 2012 muppets would be loving this crap

The only reason i put up with you is for occasions like these <3

and get on the 2012 bandwagon already

http://2012forum.com/forum/

http://earthchanges.ning.com/

[jesstamic]

http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2011/03/11/ireport.kooi.cracked.japan.quake.cnn.html

Video link. Watching as fault lines are moving during the earthquake.

[DanWA]

2012 forums are full of crackheads for sure

[Logie]

2012 forums are full of crackheads for sure

although there is a shit load of crackpipe material, there is some stuff that isn't so bad if you sift through the subtopics

[JBAE]

LOL no shit some of their topics and the special weapons and tactics part made me LOL

ahahaha

[duste]

http://totallycoolpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11032011_japan_earthquake/japan_017.jpg

BANG !!!

http://totallycoolpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11032011_japan_earthquake/japan_043.jpg


Mate from Uni's girlfriend lives about 5 minutes drive from this... He was saying as he was on Skype with her you could see the room shaking from the aftershocks... Pretty terrifying shit.

[Logie]

LOL no shit some of their topics and the special weapons and tactics part made me LOL

ahahaha

lol got to give them 10 points for effort, and if shit does go south, you can atleast refer back to their tactics and plans lol

[Bomber]

lol got to give them 10 points for effort, and if shit does go south, you can atleast refer back to their tactics and plans lol
Read thread, counter strike, tax all their shit.

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

Game over man, game over.

[Buckets]

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US


Chinglish ?

[BIGS]

lol got to give them 10 points for effort, and if shit does go south, you can atleast refer back to their tactics and plans lol

I'd be worried if they were the type of people left over to pick up the pieces lol

[duste]

Chinglish ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

[Bomber]

Chinglish ?

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[miksta]

Can zombies swim?

If Miganoosh can get here from North Korea on a door, then anythings possible.

[monk_13]

^^ Fucking ROR!

[Logie]

I'd be worried if they were the type of people left over to pick up the pieces lol

hahah ok very valid call, although, like the movie, do you really think the governments would tell us if something was really going on? hell no, they still need that economy to make all the arks,

[BIGS]

hahah ok very valid call, although, like the movie, do you really think the governments would tell us if something was really going on? hell no, they still need that economy to make all the arks,

China spec welds and rivets FTL design blue prints 'Titanic' haha

Not even Americas billionaires could afford a seat on a ark with how worthless their dollar will be by than.

[VRX]

Was chatting with my uncle who lives there with his family and it turns out this nuclear plant that's melting down or whatever is just 200km's from his place,naturally he's trying to get the fuck out of there!

[BIGS]

I know it's only words, but hope all goes well with them man. It's times like this when 200km just doesn't seem far enough.

[Lonewolf]

ex nopics is about 500km away, leaving the country in 5 weeks, not soon enough for her!

General word around the webs is that they will kill the reactor so shouldnt explode, but never be useful again.

[BIGS]

Stuck between a rock and hard place really. You would wonder why they would build so many reactors in a place prone to huge quakes and tsunamis but I guess there isn't to much choice when you have such a huge population, little space and already bad pollution levels.

[VRX]

I know it's only words, but hope all goes well with them man. It's times like this when 200km just doesn't seem far enough.

Cheers mate.

[Ryan1080]

Second reactor in trouble. On the news they said that experts believe if it explodes it could wipe out all of Japan and half of Asia. Insane!!!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/japanquake/8223179/meltdown-fear-after-japan-nuke-plant-blast

[Buckets]

"All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a broken English phrase...

Is Chinglish. Game sounds kind of interesting though...

Edit : The reactor situation sounds shite.... One mean motherfucking explosion if it goes bangski.

[mr_mike]

ex nopics is about 500km away, leaving the country in 5 weeks, not soon enough for her!

General word around the webs is that they will kill the reactor so shouldnt explode, but never be useful again.

They were just talkin about it on the news, the powerstation is 40 years old and was due to be decomissioned in the next couple months anyway.

[Bomber]

"All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a broken English phrase...

Is Chinglish. Game sounds kind of interesting though...

Edit : The reactor situation sounds shite.... One mean motherfucking explosion if it goes bangski.

Actually, no, it's Japlish. You lose, get over it. You didn't know what it was and now you do. Time to move on.....

Calls of massive explosion wiping out the whole of Japan and some of Asia are bullshit.

[DT95WA]

http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2011/03/13/1226020/610613-japan-earthquake.jpg

[ReaperSS]

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[JNR man]

http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2011/03/13/1226020/610613-japan-earthquake.jpg

Melt them down and start again

[magic1]

http://www.lakecityquietpills.com/photo/multihost/images/90774747829699184364.jpg

[marky85]

perrfect timimg as im looking to import... hopefully the dollar drops and i get a bargain..

[fsbk]

perrfect timimg as im looking to import... hopefully the dollar drops and i get a bargain..

that's the spirit!

[Niva]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhxk587Kfc1qaw9vn.png

[shifted]

perrfect timimg as im looking to import... hopefully the dollar drops and i get a bargain..

hahaha I gotta say, when it first happened I was straight thinking... Supra... import... cheaper to do it now....?

Probably be a lot of crap on the sale floor now though trying to appeal to the import market.

[MaTMaN]

Finally some good news to come out of all this chaos and destruction!

It has been reported that Saturdays Quicksilver surf classic in Hawaii was won by an 80 year old Japanese woman on a wardrobe.

[marky85]

ror ror

[mr_mike]

lol that didnt take long

[eScoRt20]

all these jap farmers are crying about how tough they have it at the moment, but i say its all bullshit, i saw a photo of one guys farm, and he had 2 big boats and about 20 cars in his front yard!

[BIGS]

friend request sent, gonna flame his wall hard

How'd you do? I haven't bothered to log on to fb yet.

[joshg123]

After being to Chernobyl, i really do hope those reports that its not going to meltdown are true.

[JNR man]

Finally some good news to come out of all this chaos and destruction!

It has been reported that Saturdays Quicksilver surf classic in Hawaii was won by an 80 year old Japanese woman on a wardrobe.

Gold

[JNR man]

all these jap farmers are crying about how tough they have it at the moment, but i say its all bullshit, i saw a photo of one guys farm, and he had 2 big boats and about 20 cars in his front yard!

Love this too

[Mad_Aussie]

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[JNR man]

Just something else for them to worry about

[mys1]

Just found out my Aunt was in Tokyo when it hit. 2 day stop over turned into 3. Air Japan werent flying (who they booked with to get home). 5k Each to get a last minute (First Flight) QANTAS flight out of there... OUCH!

[KyeBidz]

Another tsunami on its way and reports of the other reactor blowing up.

[Mad_Aussie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698?%3E,%3E


0221: Urgent: Explosion at Reactor 3 0220: Sea level has dropped five metres off Fukushima, confirming imminent arrival of tsunami

[RK 86 WA]

Sorry im not sure how to embed video, but this is footage of the flooding in japan.

HOLY FUCK! :(

Ps if someone could embed it in a quote that would be great thanks!

http://video.l3.fbcdn.net/cfs-l3-snc6/81489/34/1605260179420_2624.mp4?oh=ac31b4d8738221641ba49039 6dc19636&oe=4D7F9F00&l3s=20110313100648&l3e=20110315101648&lh=0a6cfa5eeaecd6dc12abf


Edit - And another one

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[SimonR32]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698?%3E,%3E

0254: To recap, in the past hour we have had reports of a new tsunami which appears to have been a false alarm, and a blast has wrecked a wall at a nuclear reactor but its containment vessel withstood the impact. We also had reports of 2,000 bodies found on the tsunami-ravaged north-eastern coast.

[Mad_Aussie]

and a blast has wrecked a wall at a nuclear reactor but its containment vessel withstood the impact.

http://theenergycollective.com/barrybrook/53461/fukushima-nuclear-accident-simple-and-accurate-explanation

A good read for anyone concerned about radiation leaks. It won't happen.

[jaybee]

fucking hell this is horrible.

[Lamy]

2012 seems to be a little more convincing now, bit more convincing that the movie...

[Buckets]

fucking hell this is horrible.

x2... what a shit year so far.

[esky]

So sick of hearing about impending nuclear doom.

10's of thousands of people are dead, a large part of a country is ruined, yet all the media seems to care about is the nuclear power plants.

news.com.au are at it again: Update Nuclear Tragedy. what wait?????? a few people might have got killed, and a 100 or so might have some contamination. It hardly a tragedy. The earthquake killed thousands, the nuclear thing pails into insignificance.

[Mad_Aussie]

So sick of hearing about impending nuclear doom.

10's of thousands of people are dead, a large part of a country is ruined, yet all the media seems to care about is the nuclear power plants.

news.com.au are at it again: Update Nuclear Tragedy. what wait?????? a few people might have got killed, and a 100 or so might have some contamination. It hardly a tragedy. The earthquake killed thousands, the nuclear thing pails into insignificance.

+1
There is 0 chance of a chernobyl-like event happening here. At the worst, they'll vent some steam that will have a half life of a couple of seconds.
The real disaster is yet to come - mass disease.

[Ryan1080]

There's always a potential that if they fuck up, there may be a nuclear tragedy. As opposed to the localised damage the tsunami made, a radioactive cloud can spread across the globe.

Haivng said that, media being media like to exaggerate stuff for the ratings.

[Mad_Aussie]

Ryan, the core reaction was shut down when it happened. There is a chance of the fuel rods melting, yes, but there is no chance of a full scale disaster occuring from it. If it was going to go chernobyl, it would have been within the first 45 minutes of the event.

[Ryan1080]

Ryan, the core reaction was shut down when it happened. There is a chance of the fuel rods melting, yes, but there is no chance of a full scale disaster occuring from it. If it was going to go chernobyl, it would have been within the first 45 minutes of the event.

They never said it was gonna be like Chernobyl, that was a scale 7 disaster, this is only a 4, so nowhere near. Can't comment on the rest, I'm just an armchair nuclear expert lol. Nevertheless, it may kill a lot less people than the tsunami, but even if it does kill 'only' 500 people, it's still a disaster.

[Mad_Aussie]

Oh look, the 20 people already killed in the reactor 1 explosion is a disaster - no doubt.
Its just a shame the media is focusing on it so much, and unfortunately giving the anti-nuclear protesters more ill-advised fuel for their ill-advised fire.

I think it's a real shame for the poor bastards in Lybia that this has happened though - they were so close to huge international support, and I fear they're going to be pushed out of the spotlight now.
A natural disaster is a horrible thing - especially on this scale - but your own government killing you and your family is a whole other horrific kettle of fish.



In saying that though: Far out.. Three and four storey buildings going completely underwater..
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http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

[Mad_Aussie]

http://i.imgur.com/urWIB.jpg

[JBAE]

^ oldgal looks old enough to have seen the war... probably doesnt give a fcuk! lol would be small time for her if so!

[ttomred4000]

fuck everyone, im building an underground bomb shelter, seclude there till doomsday.

[BIGS]

Thinking of a new business venture. Nuclear fall out shelters.

[mr_mike]

they had some american company on the news the other day that builds bomb shelters, they were running about $200k for a bomb shelter that would be self sufficient 6mths or summin

[BIGS]

hmm don't suppose lead lined tin sheds with oxy bottles would cut it than.

[RICEY]

I wish I knew if the world was ending or not so Id stop wasting time going to work.

[mr_mike]

i'd be gettin out bulk personal loans and credit cards and livin like a king

[BIGS]

I wish I knew if the world was ending or not so Id stop wasting time going to work.

Mortgage the house few times over and have a ball. Makes me wonder if there's an increase in life insurance policies.

*Edit* ^^ beat me to it haha

[RICEY]

Id become a serial rapist.

[JBAE]

need to hunt down a nice eurpean made AK47 asap.... for post end of the world survival! :(
(and boong hunting)

[YOUR MATE]

Id become a serial rapist.

....become?

[RICEY]

....become?

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Slip_]

http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/438/fallout.jpg

Fake map. Came from 4Chan.

Rowdy shit, unfortunately Japan should expect some more.

Alot of Volcanic activity elsewhere too, will be proper game on if yellowstone goes.

[Tocchi]

need to hunt down a nice eurpean made AK47 asap.... for post end of the world survival! :(
(and boong hunting)

sweet kill 2 birds at once

[JBAE]

ahh yeh slips onto sumn ahaha would be fucking bad ass if that goes up! alot of activity kicking around recently there also!!!!

http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm

[Logie]

will be proper game on if yellowstone goes.

This^^

[BIGS]

need to hunt down a nice eurpean made AK47 asap.... for post end of the world survival! :(
(and boong hunting)

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Just learn to load faster than this kid.

Or..

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[V70R]

Just some of the damage :(

http://kumakubo.up.seesaa.net/image/P1000826.JPG

http://kumakubo.up.seesaa.net/image/P1000832.JPG

[JNR man]

Got this joke last night

I've recently brought a resturant in Japan the first day was a bit shakey but the following day the costomers were flooding in.

[Mad_Aussie]

I just broke up with my Japanese girlfriend last night. Oh well, there's plenty more in the sea.

I'm absolutely doubting we'll see anything happening at Yellowstone. Mostly because if that goes pop, that's the end of the human race. And even in the event that it does happen, I'll sit here and deny it, mostly because of how horrifically we'd all go.

[Logie]

You're right it would be, but it would be quite a spectacular to see before going out!

[Mad_Aussie]

Nothing spectacular about slowly choking on volcanic ash and dying of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (silicosis).

Haven't had a chance to use that word in a while...

[protecon]

The reason the Japanese volcanos are kicking up is because they just got a fresh supply of the Pacific plate boundary thrust into the lower wedge mantle from the subduction zone following Fridays plate slip.

These tsunami jokes are coming in waves at the moment.

[JNR man]

Jap gf one made me piss and can you please break down that word a bit for me so i may use it in the near future.

[protecon]

Jap gf one made me piss and can you please break down that word a bit for me so i may use it in the near future.

Pneumono (affects the lungs) ultramicroscopic (really fucking small) silico (basically sand) volcano (kaboom) coniosis (inhalation).

[duste]

Lol @ kaboom

[JNR man]

Pneumono (affects the lungs) ultramicroscopic (really fucking small) silico (basically sand) volcano (kaboom) coniosis (inhalation).


Thanks for simply terms i like

[Mad_Aussie]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

"New-mono-lu-trans-microscopic-sili-co-volcano-ni-o-sis"

It's technically not a real word as per a dictionary definition (It's a pseudo-medical term)... It only exists because they wanted a stupidly long word to laud over stupid people.

[JNR man]

It should be added to the dictionary

[Ryan1080]

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/tens-of-thousands-dead-as-japan-scrambles-to-avert-nuclear-catastrophe/story-e6frg12c-1226021581565

Radiation is getting worse and worse...


The radiation level at Japan's troubled nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture shot up to 8217 micro sievert per hour temporarily this morning after an explosion was heard at its No.2 reactor, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.

Kyodo news agency reported the level as of 8.31pm local time was more than eight times the 1000 micro sievert level to which people are usually exposed in one year

Sounds like it is so high, in one hour you get 8 times more radiation than you get in one full year. Not good.

[Mad_Aussie]

Anyone got a link to Japanese Government Auctions?

http://i.imgur.com/nvQ1R.jpg

[ReaperSS]

Isnt that an F16? Whats Japan doing with US aircraft lol

[Buckets]

Anyone got a link to Japanese Government Auctions?

http://i.imgur.com/nvQ1R.jpg


Tasty...

The F16 was sold all over the world, Singapore and a few other have them as well. It's only the super awesome stuff (B1-B, B2, F-117, F22, SR-71 ect) that the Americans wont sell.

[Riggs]

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/tens-of-thousands-dead-as-japan-scrambles-to-avert-nuclear-catastrophe/story-e6frg12c-1226021581565

Radiation is getting worse and worse...



Sounds like it is so high, in one hour you get 8 times more radiation than you get in one full year. Not good.

About the same as an x-ray, so deadly.

[Mad_Aussie]

About the same as an x-ray, so deadly.

Yeah. I wouldn't want to go on a trans-atlantic flight after being there, it might make one of your hairs go prematurely grey a few years early.

[Ryan1080]

About the same as an x-ray, so deadly.

LOL, really? It sounded bad though.

Having said that, you only get exposed for a moment during an x-ray, this is constant exposure, surely that's worse?

[mr_mike]

well i have had about 15 xrays in the last 8 weeks, guess i'm fuct

[waxdass]

you get more radiation dose flying Perth to Europe!

fucking ill-informed reporters.

[Tyger]

Read the link posted a few pages back by Mad_Aussie regarding the nuclear reactor. Very informative and quite interesting. And if you're worried, quite calming.

[Mad_Aussie]

Everyone needs to cut the nuclear shit now hey. It's not an issue at all.

This is the issue.

http://i.imgur.com/tcVQD.jpg

[SimonR32]

Isnt that an F16? Whats Japan doing with US aircraft lol

Not a F-16, just looks like one :)

[esky]

Mitsubishi F-2?

[SimonR32]

Yep :)

[V70R]

Utter devastation!

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_16w27-nY62Q/TXqWIFmBHFI/AAAAAAAAAvk/COxgjn0Orb0/CNN%20Japan%20Quake.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii298/R410a/2b0b5d24.jpg

[Mad_Aussie]

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/japan_031411/bp22.jpg
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/japan_031411/bp38.jpg
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/japan_031411/bp40.jpg
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/japan_031411/bp47.jpg
AAaah me camry!
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/japan_031411/bp7.jpg

[esky]

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/japan_031411/bp22.jpg


i see you car on car, and raise you boat on house.

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/dailyrecord3/mar2011/8/0/ferry-on-house-after-japanese-tsunami-170920646.jpg

[mr_mike]

yeh the devestation is amazing, wish the media would stop spruking up the situation at the nuclear powerplant

[DISTRBD]

See these on Prestige soon , Grade 5

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/japan_031411/bp22.jpg

[-Luke-]

[IMG]http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/japan_031411/bp7.jpg

Moral of story, if you move too Japan, Make sure you live in a concrete block of flats!

[Mad_Aussie]

Moral of story, if you move too Japan, Make sure you live in a concrete block of flats!

I was watching the live aireal footage from there (I think) when the wave struck. There was probably 40 people on the top of those buildings, the water washed completely over them.

[Logie]

I was watching the live aireal footage from there (I think) when the wave struck. There was probably 40 people on the top of those buildings, the water washed completely over them.

Moral of the story, live in the taller block of flats!

[Joe]

Moral of the story.. live in houseboat.

[-Luke-]

block of flatsboat?

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/dailyrecord3/mar2011/8/0/ferry-on-house-after-japanese-tsunami-170920646.jpg[/QUOTE]

[protecon]

Moral of the story, live in the taller block of flats!

Probably didn't realise the height of the wave.
Only the width

[Mad_Aussie]

Probably didn't realise the height of the wave.
Only the width

In their defense, they didn't see much of a Sine before the wave happened.... Everyone was just Standing around.

[possibly.mitch]

hrmm! i think i like this theory!
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/189488_10150457485705385_686475384_17588378_526504 1_n.jpg

[Ryan1080]

LOL! Gotta love wikipedia jokers!

[protecon]

http://i54.tinypic.com/a61lg.jpg

[mr_mike]

lol fuckin retarded yanks on FB repeatedly saying this is payback for Pearl Harbour.
Half of them probably wouldnt know what Pearl Harbour was if it hadnt been made into a movie

[Alt_F4]

In their defense, they didn't see much of a Sine before the wave happened.... Everyone was just Standing around.
Just standing around Cos they wanted a Tan?

[PSI 304]

Scientific calculator joke...ROR!

[JNR man]

Anyone got a link to Japanese Government Auctions?

http://i.imgur.com/nvQ1R.jpg

Leaving on a jet plane don't know if i'll be back again

[Risk10k]

Went to donate, but then saw all of the rich pingpingpingpings with planes and boats in their back yards..

[-Luke-]

Leaving on a jet plane don't know if i'll be back again

Janis Joplin joke ROR.....

[pgc]

Went to donate, but then saw all of the rich pingpingpingpings with planes and boats in their back yards..

Must...not....raff....out...roud....

[Slip_]

lol fuckin retarded yanks on FB repeatedly saying this is payback for Pearl Harbour.
Half of them probably wouldnt know what Pearl Harbour was if it hadnt been made into a movie

LOL

[V70R]

Moral of story, if you move too Japan, Make sure you live in a concrete block of flats!

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[JNR man]

HAha take tha piss

[Tre-Cool]

Apparently a third explosion on another reactor has happened.

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeremybogaisky/2011/03/14/breaking-another-explosion-at-japanese-nuclear-plant/


Although Tokyo Electric said it also continued to deal with cooling system failures and high pressures at half a dozen of its 10 reactors in the two Fukushima complexes, fears mounted about the threat posed by the pools of water where years of spent fuel rods are stored.

At the 40-year-old Fukushima Daiichi unit 1, where an explosion Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor, the spent fuel pool, in accordance with General Electric’s design, is placed above the reactor. Tokyo Electric said it was trying to figure out how to maintain water levels in the pools, indicating that the normal safety systems there had failed, too. Failure to keep adequate water levels in a pool would lead to a catastrophic fire, said nuclear experts, some of whom think that unit 1’s pool may now be outside.

“That would be like Chernobyl on steroids,” said Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer at Fairewinds Associates and a member of the public oversight panel for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, which is identical to the Fukushima Daiichi unit 1.

People familiar with the plant said there are seven spent fuel pools at Fukushima Daiichi, many of them densely packed.

Gundersen said the unit 1 pool could have as much as 20 years of spent fuel rods, which are still radioactive.

http://www.infowars.com/fuel-rod-fire-at-fukushima-reactor-would-be-like-chernobyl-on-steroids/

If i was in Japan and couldnt get a flight out, i'd be getting on a canoe and paddling to china to fly the fuck out the region.

[Logie]

+1
There is 0 chance of a chernobyl-like event happening here. At the worst, they'll vent some steam that will have a half life of a couple of seconds.
The real disaster is yet to come - mass disease.


Ryan, the core reaction was shut down when it happened. There is a chance of the fuel rods melting, yes, but there is no chance of a full scale disaster occuring from it. If it was going to go chernobyl, it would have been within the first 45 minutes of the event.


Apparently a third explosion on another reactor has happened.

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeremybogaisky/2011/03/14/breaking-another-explosion-at-japanese-nuclear-plant/


http://www.infowars.com/fuel-rod-fire-at-fukushima-reactor-would-be-like-chernobyl-on-steroids/

If i was in Japan and couldnt get a flight out, i'd be getting on a canoe and paddling to china to fly the fuck out the region.

Are you so sure there is a 0% chance of that happening Mad_Aussie?

[regi]

does this mean my genuine nissan parts will not be delivered on time??

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuu

[Mad_Aussie]

Waste storage pools catching fire =/= reactor meltdown.
This is a different kettle of fish, and I don't actually know anything about their waste storage design. But the chances of a reactor going critical as per chernobyl are next to none.

[BIGS]

Don't really trust authorities on revealing full extent of the problem tbh. I've seen 2012 so I should know.

[Mad_Aussie]

Don't really trust authorities on revealing full extent of the problem tbh.

The fact they've just instigated a no-fly-zone for a 30km radius around the plant is starting to make me wonder.

[Logie]

Don't really trust authorities on revealing full extent of the problem tbh. I've seen 2012 so I should know.

Like the movie sais, "when the governments tell you not to panic, that is when you panic"

we all know how many people there are in Japan, imagine the chaos of everyone trying to get out!
People would be trying to hijack planes and boats to escape!

[Mad_Aussie]

0709: There is a fire at a spent fuel pond of a reactor and radioactivity has been released into the atmosphere, says the IAEA according to AFP news agency.


Sooo....
Yeah, reactor meltdown, as I said, isn't an issue.
This is the interesting part of the story. Anyone have more direct/up to date news? I'm just streaming BBC's feed currently..

[Tre-Cool]

I think you'll find the free media will be very lucky to start getting information from now on.

Plus what reporter would volunteer to go into a nuclear radiated area?

[Stealthed]

The japanse have nuclear power down to a fine art, I very much doubt it will be anything like chernobyl.

Media is just doing their thing.

[Mad_Aussie]

The fires in the waste storage pond are reportedly releasing ionising raditation @ 400mSv/hr, so not extremely dangerous yet...
I wouldn't want to be there right now though.

http://i.imgur.com/AnPgZ.png

[Logie]

http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/

[cactus]

So the fires have melted the old fuel rods (because of inadequate water supply to the pools)? Howcome the pools are not contained in some massive building? And why are the fuel rods kept in a pool- is there no other way to dispose of them once they have been fully utilised?

[JNR man]

What is it now 3 reactors down 2 to go

[mr_mike]

So the fires have melted the old fuel rods (because of inadequate water supply to the pools)? Howcome the pools are not contained in some massive building? And why are the fuel rods kept in a pool- is there no other way to dispose of them once they have been fully utilised?

from what i know about nuclear power plants and i'll admit it is very limited, this is the biggest issue regarding nuclear power it is clean power but the spent fuel rods take something like 2 million years to break down to a safe level so they need somewhere to store them.

remember a couple years ago all the abo's and greenies were getting fireup cos either the US or England wanted to store used fuel rods in the middle of the desert where there is no one around for a million km's.

[TPG]

^^^^
where there is no tectonic activity either.

[DISTRBD]

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[Mad_Aussie]

So the fires have melted the old fuel rods (because of inadequate water supply to the pools)? Howcome the pools are not contained in some massive building? And why are the fuel rods kept in a pool- is there no other way to dispose of them once they have been fully utilised?

Do you want to know the sad truth as to where these pools are located?
In the top-half of the reactor buildings.

The parts that exploded.

[BIGS]

Do you want to know the sad truth as to where these pools are located?
In the top-half of the reactor buildings.

The parts that exploded.

Radio active shrapnel... nice :(

[SimonR32]

Stop the hype... There is no chain reaction happening at the plant!

No chain reaction = No big bang

The worst that can/will happen is some radiation will be leaked causing little harm or damage to surrounding areas

[Mad_Aussie]

Stop the hype... There is no chain reaction happening at the plant!



There's no chain reaction happening in the reactor.
However the spent fuel ponds are on fire.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/nuclear/the-spent-fuel-danger-in-japans-nuclear-disaster

[BIGS]

Did someone say chain reaction BIG BANG and a fire!!!

[SimonR32]

There's no chain reaction happening in the reactor.
However the spent fuel ponds are on fire.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/nuclear/the-spent-fuel-danger-in-japans-nuclear-disaster

Which would not be able to support a chain reaction...

[Mad_Aussie]

No, obviously not. Else it wouldn't be in a waste pond.
However burning uranium would have just an effective area of contamination as a reactor meltdown.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/japan-nuclear-iaea-idUSLDE72E07320110315

Yesterday, it wasn't an issue worth worrying about. Today, it is starting to look like it is.


The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), citing information it had received from Japanese authorities at 0350 GMT, said dose rates of up to 400 millisievert per hour have been reported at the Fukushima power plant site.

It did not give details or comparisons on the radiation level but exposure to over 100 millisieverts a year is a level which can lead to cancer, according to the World Nuclear Association.

[Ryan1080]

Why mention chain reaction? Obviously it isn't the danger/problem/concern here at all. No one us detonating any nukes, and the reactor is shut down.

Contamination is the problem. Blowing up the shut down reactor and letting it all out is like the good old dirty bomb terrorists would like to use.

No fancy boom and mushroom cloud, but just as deadly in the long term.

So glad we're far away from there, hopefully the winds won't bring any down our way.

[JBAE]

FFS you idiots have NO FUCKING IDEA!!! the chain reaction cannot and will not occur due to the failure and current in active state of the flux capicitors with in the facility! with out these there is no danger of a reaction!

[SimonR32]

Why mention chain reaction? Obviously it isn't the danger/problem/concern here at all. No one us detonating any nukes, and the reactor is shut down.

Because pretty much every media outlet is causing chaos by reporting on a possible nuclear meltdown...

[RICEY]

FFS you idiots have NO FUCKING IDEA!!! the chain reaction cannot and will not occur due to the failure and current in active state of the flux capicitors with in the facility! with out these there is no danger of a reaction!

No such thing as flux capicitors silly, they are flux capacitors.

:)

[JBAE]

sorry licey :( me spelling failz as u knows

[RICEY]

I still love you.

[volt_bite]

More information here:

http://www.news.com.au/world/qa-japans-growing-nuclear-emergency/story-e6frfkyi-1226021580034


What does the latest explosion mean for the reactor?

The blast at Unit 2 this morning AEDT follows hydrogen explosions at Unit 1 on Saturday and Unit 3 on Sunday. Water levels have dropped precipitously inside Unit 2, twice leaving the uranium fuel rods completely exposed and raising the threat of a meltdown. The plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPO), said the explosion occurred near the suppression pool in the reactor's containment vessel. The company had just minutes before revealed that the containment vessel had been damaged and warned that there could possibly be serious radiation leaks. It later said the fact that the radiation level had not jumped, indicated the vessel had not sustained damage such as a hole. There is a fire burning at Unit 4 at the plant, officials confirmed, however a Japanese minister said there were no fuel rods contained in that location. There are six units at the plant. Radiation levels have risen considerably, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan says. Mr Kan has told people within 30km of the plant to stay indoors.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/qa-japans-growing-nuclear-emergency/story-e6frfkyi-1226021580034#ixzz1GfOb0KOz

[kirbo]

I've been chilling in Seoul the last 10 days, pending a trip to Japan. The Koreans and Japanese here are all pretty calm about the risk of radioactive contamination. Can't believe it. No looting in Japan either, what a great society! Half price amenities from local supermarkets and free items from many vending machines.

If the wind blows towards the Korean peninsula this place will be terrible + China also.

Booking a flight out now. I can't help here & like my DNA in tact.

[Mad_Aussie]

Good old American media...

http://i.imgur.com/a24kl.jpg

[Ryan1080]

Because pretty much every media outlet is causing chaos by reporting on a possible nuclear meltdown...

Nuclear meltdown is not chain reaction but.

[Brockas]

Nuclear meltdown is not chain reaction but.

Wait, what?