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[AllStarZ]

Looking at footage on youtube, and I see houses on fire being swept along the wave.

[Dutchygamer]

Coincidently, a large earthquake also happened in China. I assume they are linked to each other, or one caused the other.

[Destiny]

Earthquake, Sendai, Japan. Yeah, the entire city has been UTTERLY DESTROYED.

[GuardianTempest]

Wow you guys are fast, you're pretty real-time when it comes to this.

Hang on, this better be on the other forums or I'm calling them slow. It's all over the PH News.

[AllStarZ]

Toll is up to 32, probably at least 100 confirmed injured or more.

Edited by AllStarZ, 11 March 2011 - 10:58.

[Destiny]

When that refinery in Chiba lit up, damn.

Also Hawaii's going to be hit by a tsunami in two hours, sirens going off...

Edited by Destiny, 11 March 2011 - 11:05.

[Alias]

The entirety of the pacific area apart from North America is on Tsunami alert.

[Destiny]

I'm pretty sure the entire West Coast was on alert, especially Washington and Calif.

[Alias]

 Destiny, on 11 Mar 2011, 22:12, said:

I'm pretty sure the entire West Coast was on alert, especially Washington and Calif.

Nope.
http://www.abc.net.a.../11/3162045.htm

Aus and NZ are now off the list since we're pretty much shielded by PNG.

[GDIZOCOM]

Warnings reach as far as South America.My country is affected and I'm still scared even if we are far from the danger zone.P-Noy told us to stay calm.

[Destiny]

There are secondary quakes occuring all around Sendai, even as I type...

Also Alias:
Issued by The National Weather Service
West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center, AK
3:35 am PST, Fri., Mar. 11, 2011

... THE TSUNAMI WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL AREAS OF CALIFORNIA AND OREGON FROM POINT CONCEPCION CALIFORNIA TO THE OREGON-WASHINGTON BORDER...

PERSONS IN TSUNAMI WARNING COASTAL AREAS SHOULD MOVE INLAND TO HIGHER GROUND.

Edit 2: 40 dead, confirmed by Japanese police

Edit 3: Now 60 dead.

Edited by Destiny, 11 March 2011 - 12:36.

[Sgt. Nuker]

 Destiny, on 11 Mar 2011, 6:04, said:

When that refinery in Chiba lit up, damn.

Also Hawaii's going to be hit by a tsunami in two hours, sirens going off...

Hawaii was just hit 15 minutes ago.

 Alias, on 11 Mar 2011, 6:10, said:

The entirety of the pacific area apart from North America is on Tsunami alert.

Nope, California, Oregon, Washington state, and Alaska are all under tsunami warning.

 Destiny, on 11 Mar 2011, 6:12, said:

I'm pretty sure the entire West Coast was on alert, especially Washington and Calif.

Don't forget Oregon and Alaska.

As a side note, add Guam in to the "mix" as under the tsunami watch.

[Destiny]

Yeah, watching Hawaii's feeds. Some have reported 2-meter surges, Pearl Harbor has a 50-cm surge.

[Chyros]

Hundreds dead now, tsunami will hit Indonesia and the Phillipines in about 5 hours.

[Destiny]

IIRC Japan found a hundred or two hundred bodies somewhere...

[Ion Cannon!]

If the death toll stays under 1000 I would be very suprised, 8.9 richter is seriously powerful and although Japan is ideally equipped to deal with earthquakes you cannot protect against a Tsunami nearly as well. Some of my lecturers had to take calls about the earthquake today, it was quite interesting.

[AllStarZ]

Hit a thousand. Only likely to climb even higher in the next few days or hours.

[Rich19]

Japan has declared a "Nuclear emergency" as one reactor's cooling system has failed: http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-12711707

[R3ven]

Oh my, that's terrible D:

Heard about the earthquake around 11 hours ago(roughly 6 AM here) and was horrified by it. I heard someone say that 8.9 was the highest Japan has ever recorded.

[Sgt. Rho]

I think it was indeed one of the worst ever recorded globally.

[CoLT]

I'm not entirely certain that 8.9 is the highest ever globally, but in Japan if I'm not wrong it is.

I saw this on sky and bbc news this morning and just saw the whirlpool video on youtube. It's absolutely incredible how much damage was cause in such a short space of time. Sadly, I don't think the death toll is going to stop at 1000. More dead will continue to be found as the hours go by, it's really such a tragedy.

[Sgt. Rho]

The highest globaly I think was 9.1. I however said "one of the worst", not "the worst".

[Raven]

Highest I think was the one that caused the Indian Ocean Tsunami. It was 9.x if my memory is correct.

4 Trains and one ship are uncounted for so far. I really do feel for those people. My country was also hit during the 2004 badly. But this seem to have hit more denser population centers. I hope that the death toll would be less than ours. I really do hope so. Its terrible.

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btw do we have any affected members?

Edited by Raven, 12 March 2011 - 02:55.

[Ghostrider]

Yeah it shifted the Earth's axis by 25 centimeters. Jesus.

[Sgt. Rho]

Any - minor and major alike - Earthquake shifts the Earth' axis a bit. To be honest. Even when you take a dump you minimally change the axis of the planet