33 FT. TSUNAMI HITS JAPAN … OFFSHORE QUAKE AT 8.9

 

1. Ok, I’ll have to watch the news. Usually my morning TV is the weather. I can’t face the news before I’ve had a couple cups of coffee and a shower. And often listening to the news makes me want to take another shower.

   Japan has been expecting “the big one” for quite a few years now. 8.9 is just about biblical in proportion, isn’t it? Hard to believe that only 5 dead, when Japan is wall to wall people in so many areas.

   Posted by Drew458       03/11/2011  at  09:59 AM  



2. Ok, the news is saying over 200 at this point. Quake was 81 miles offshore. I expect that number to go up an order of magnitude, but it could have been so much worse, like if the epicenter was in Tokyo Bay.

   Posted by Drew458       03/11/2011  at  10:14 AM  



3. Shame - but shows how insignificant we humans are in the face of Nature. We are always at her mercy. The picture of the highway - shows what fascinated me as a child after seeing the book on the Yellowstone Park earthquake (Hebgen Lake) with the guardrail - bending, not breaking - and how the road just fell (but not apart).

   We are mere specks in this great universe - “Maybe just one moment, darling.
   Well, maybe just one moment. Or forever. I keep getting them mixed up, too.”

   Posted by wardmama4       03/11/2011  at  05:37 PM  



4. This is an actual catastrophe!  Exceeds the 2004 tsunami! Which was bad enough.

   But this earthquake/tsunami has not only flooded coastal Japanese cities, it has caused major disruptions in several Japanese nuclear power plants.

   Admittedly, we are not talking about Chernobyl scale problems. But certainly the reported problems already exceed anything that happened at 3 Mile Island.

   Posted by Christopher       03/13/2011  at  10:44 AM  

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