Japan Tsunami

[SJN-Fox]

Just looking at the pictures on Sky news, 8.9 magnitude earthquake with a 10m tsunami wave. Huge fire at an oil refinery. They reckon it's the biggest quake ever recorded. Massive amounts of damage.

Amazingly there are only 26 reported deaths although I suspect that will go up.

West coast of America and Hawaii are on tsunami alert along with Austalia and New Zealand.

 

[lazzer]

The footage is quite horrendous watching lines of traffic just being engulfed by it all. Tragic. Wonder if Abe is affected by this personally?

 

[Motown Fox]

Abe comes from Ichikawa, Chiba* which is 20 kilometres from the centre of Tokyo in the very area on the East of Japan that was affected. I imagine if his family and friends still live there that they would have had some involvement so I would think his mind will be elsewhere and doubt he would be wanting to play tomorrow. But who knows everyone he knows might be okay and if he is in touch today with those he might feel okay about it enough to play.

Anyway my thoughts go out to those involved and hope that it does not get worse in the other areas that the Tsunami is meant to be hitting in the next few hours.

Fukushima Ken Oki in Japan was the epicentre of three consecutive earthquakes today of a magnitude of 6.6 on the Richter scale.

The first earthquake was at 17:08 followed by another at 17:13 and a third one at 17:17.

Areas affected were: Shiga, Aichi, Gifu, Ishikawa, Nagano, Hokkaido, Yamanashi, Niigata, Kanagawa, Tokyo, Chiba*, Saitama, Gunma, Ibaraki, Yamagata, Akita, Aomori, Tochigi, Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima, the epicentre.

 

[Boy Genius]

I have friends out there at the moment, but nobody can contact them, and they are in Tokyo suburbs

 

[Biffa Bacon]

I have friends out there at the moment, but nobody can contact them, and they are in Tokyo suburbs

Lots of communications down, my colleagues in Nagoya are having few problems but or Tokyo office is out of contact.

 

[Boy Genius]

Lots of communications down, my colleagues in Nagoya are having few problems but or Tokyo office is out of contact.

One of them has just got a message up on facebook, saying he has never been so scared in all his life. Just wants to get home now.

 

[Biffa Bacon]

One of them has just got a message up on facebook, saying he has never been so scared in all his life. Just wants to get home now.

I'm quite glad I didn't attend our company budget meeting at head office this week, colleagues from Germany, the US and various other places should all be flying back home tomorrow

 

[Motown Fox]

As Abe comes from Chiba this below may be on his mind at the moment.

Cosmo Oil's 220,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Chiba is burning after a fire started at the plant's storage tanks following the quake

Read more here

 

[Boy Genius]

I'm quite glad I didn't attend our company budget meeting at head office this week, colleagues from Germany, the US and various other places should all be flying back home tomorrow

not now they wont.

 

[RHYDAL]

Is Melton still out there?

 

[Macky]

The top hashtag on twitter at the moment is #prayforjapan

What the **** good is that gonna do for ****s sake? So if your god in his infinite wisdom decides to **** you over with a massive earthquake, the first response is to pray to him?
There doesn't seem to be any clarity on which particular god you should be praying to, but there is also the more realistic, and actually helpful, #donateforjapan tag

 

[bocadillo]

The top hashtag on twitter at the moment is #prayforjapan

What the **** good is that gonna do for ****s sake? So if your god in his infinite wisdom decides to **** you over with a massive earthquake, the first response is to pray to him?
There doesn't seem to be any clarity on which particular god you should be praying to, but there is also the more realistic, and actually helpful, #donateforjapan tag

I'll put you down as agnostic then?

 

[Macky]

I'll put you down as agnostic then?

:icon_bigg It's fair to say, that's one of several nouns that would apply to me

 

[The Major]

:icon_bigg It's fair to say, that's one of several nouns that would apply to me

I can think of one or two as well.:icon_wink

 

[beaumontfox]

So can I, but not that would be useable on here.



My aunt's bro and his family are also ok, took a couple of hours before they got word though.


I some times wonder how people can complain about a bit of snow in this country when you see this sort of stuff happening elsewhere in the world.

 

[Mawsley]

A three foot wave?

Considering they've had to deal with Mothra, Manda, Rodan and Godzilla in the past this must have been as nothing.

 

[Boy Genius]

Is Melton still out there?

Yes he is, he was caught up in big time. I spoke to him earlier today and he is alright, just a bit pissed off ( and relieved )

 

[Lako42]

Looks absolutely awfull, very relieved that im on the caribbean side of the Isthmus, Although not tomorrow.

 

[FryattFox]

Looks absolutely awfull,

Scoop.

BG's already told us that Melt's is okay.

 

[Cate Fox]

Looks absolutely awfull, very relieved that im on the caribbean side of the Isthmus, Although not tomorrow.

Where are you heading next Lako?