Massive Earthquake and Tsunami hits Japan

[Robert]

This afternoon an earthquake of about 8.8 occurred off the coast of Japan, shaking buildings in Tokyo and setting an oil refinery on fire. Soon after came a 10 metre high tsumani sweeping away houses, boats, entire buildings sweeping far inland through fields and towns. Reports are still coming in, but the devastation looks to be massive. A tsunami warning has been issued for most of the Pacific.

[Inky]

According to Gryph's facebook he's stuck in an airport over there.

[emsley]

he is.

[Agozer]

Been reading/watching the news about this all day. Scary stuff. Good thing that the japanese are at the top of their game in earthquake preparedness.

[emsley]

Shits fucked up - look out of your window and a fucking boat floats by... Followed by a few houses and a bunch of cars and a blnaket of oil cooking... wtf

[2eyez]

Leviathan

[Inky]

the Mayans were a year and change off... we're fucked.

[Krosigrim]

Leviathan

Har Har

 

the Mayans were a year and change off... we're fucked.

No see... this is just the beginning! Didnt Cali just go through some flooding?

[emsley]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

To add to the fear factor.

[veristic]

The posthumous and missing people notwithstanding, a very important question is how the world will deal with the fact that its third largest economy is going to deal with this disaster. Japan's economy was already doing badly before the tsunami, now they are officially fucked. Nuclear power plant problems on top of that. What's the ratio... like one in every six nuclear power plants are in Japan? Five of them are at critical levels... stocks all over the place are falling. Their situation is going to affect the world.

 

I feel for their human losses. Tragic.

[emsley]

The Japs aint coming clean on the reactors - all they are doing is moving people away from it.