tsjonathan
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Hi guys,
Would anyone happen to know anywhere that's good to watch league in Tokyo?
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Thanks in advance,
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Would anyone happen to know anywhere that's good to watch league in Tokyo?
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Thanks in advance,
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tsjonathan
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Dammn that quake was scary
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alien
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i was watching it live on skynews. the choppers were in the air and you could see the tsunami coming and it just went right over houses, people and people trying to get away in cars. at one stage they said it was an 8.9 earthquake! i heard that a nuclear power plant was damaged and there might be radiation.
Tiger_Watto
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I did my bit to show support…. I had bucket loads of Asahi tonight... Cheers
happy_tiger
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Was watching live on ABC news channel They had a chopper flying over the Tsunami as it rolled in Unbelieveable Does anyone get this strange feeling that something is seriously wrong with this planet
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alien
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@Tiger Watto said:
:neutral_face: are you ok, canetoad :question: :question: :question:
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alien
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@happy tiger said:
There are lots of things wrong with this planet.
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alien
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@Adman said:
That was only the first wave. There were bigger ones after that. 10 meters high! They were showing those ones on tv too, live from the choppers.
<big>Japan quake: live report</big>
AFP
March 12, 2011, 5:02 am
WASHINGTON (AFP) - 1752 GMT:: The first tsunami waves begin hitting Mexico's Pacific coast, around 8,200 miles (13,000 kilometers) from Sendai, the epicenter of the quake. The waves are around half a meter high, but authorities at the Scientific Research Center in the town of Enseada warn that subsequent waves could be as high as two meters (seven feet)
1742 GMT: President Barack Obama calls the quake a "potentially catastrophic disaster" and says the "images of destruction and flooding coming out of Japan are simply heartbreaking. He was speaking in a news conference that was delayed by more than an hour, to allow him to be briefed on the situation in Japan and the US response so far.
"We currently have an aircraft carrier in Japan, and another is on the way. And we also have a ship en route to the Marianna Islands to assist as needed," he said.
1719 GMT - This is Karin Zeitvogel in Washington taking over from London with AFP's live reports on the massive quake that struck Japan nearly 12 hours ago, triggering tsunami waves that are now hitting the west coast of the United States.
The quake, which hit near the northeastern city of Sendai at 14:46 pm (0546 GMT) and lasted about two minutes, and the tsunami disaster it triggered may have claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people, Kyodo News agency says.
1700 GMT: I'm now handing over to my colleagues in Washington – stay with us for all the latest news following the huge earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan at 14:46 local time (0546 GMT) Friday.
Here's a recap of the key points following the 8.9-magnitude quake -- the strongest ever to hit Japan -- which struck off the northeastern coast of the main island of Honshu, triggering a huge tsunami along Japan's Pacific coast.
-- The 10-metre (33-foot) wave of black water generated by the quake -- the seventh biggest ever recorded -- pulverised the northeastern city of Sendai, the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, where police reportedly said 200-300 bodies had been found on the coast.
-- More than 90 people have been confirmed killed in addition to the bodies found on the Sendai coast, public broadcaster NHK reported.
-- The wave set off tsunami alerts across the Pacific, including in the US state of Hawaii and in many Latin American nations from Mexico to Chile, where seaside populations were urged to take precautions.
-- A Japanese ship with 100 people aboard was reportedly carried away while more than 300 houses were destroyed in the remote city of Ofunato in Miyagi Prefecture.
-- The government said the tsunami and quake, which was felt in Beijing some 2,500 kilometres (1,500 miles) away, had caused "tremendous damage", while aerial footage showed massive flooding in northern towns.
-- The quake, which struck about 250 miles (400km) north-east of Tokyo at a depth of 20 miles and lasted about two minutes, rattled buildings in greater Tokyo, the world's largest urban area and home to some 30 million people.
-- In Tokyo, millions who had earlier fled swaying buildings were stranded far away from home in the evening after the earthquake shut down the capital's vast subway system. The mobile phone network was strained to breaking point.
-- There was also major disruption to air travel and bullet train services. A passenger train with an unknown number of people aboard was unaccounted for on a line outside Sendai, Kyodo News agency reported.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/japan-tsunami/a/-/article/8996911/japan-quake-live-report/
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alien
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tsjonathan
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I was getting a haircut and thought the hairdresser was messing with me giving me a vibrating chair and then I realised it was a massive earthquake! Much bigger than Christchurch apparently!
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alien
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@tsjonathan said:
100 times bigger
mikey
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@tsjonathan said:
I used to watch it ion a bar in Shinjuku that has closed down. Best to contact the Japan Rugby League Association as they know where you can watch it.
@tsjonathan said:
Glad you're OK.
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alien
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im very worried about this nuclear meltdown. i dont think the japanese government is telling people how bad the situation really is but alot of govenrments are like that when disasters happen, which causes even more deaths
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alien
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<big>Quake survivor saved from 15km out to sea</big>
AAP
March 14, 2011, 8:45 am
A Japanese man who was swept 15km out to sea by Japan's deadly tsunami was plucked to safety on Sunday after being spotted clinging to a piece of wreckage, officials said.
A Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer rescued 60-year-old Hiromitsu Shinkawa after discovering him floating on a piece of roof in waters off Fukushima Prefecture, two days after the disaster struck.
The man, from the city of Minamisoma which has been virtually obliterated, was swept out along with his house after the massive tsunami tore into Japan's northeast following a 9-magnitude earthquake on Friday.
He is conscious and in "good condition" after his rescue which took place around 12.40pm local time, ministry officials said, adding that he was taken to hospital by helicopter.
"I ran away after learning that the tsunami was coming," Shinkawa told rescuers, according to Jiji Press.
"But I turned back to pick up something at home, when I was washed away. I was rescued while I was hanging to the roof from my house."
The government has said that at least 1,000 people are believed to have lost their lives in the disaster, and police estimate more than 215,000 people are huddled in emergency shelters.
However, the police chief of badly-hit Miyagi prefecture, which lies north of Fukushima, said that the death toll was certain to exceed 10,000 in his district alone.
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/japan-tsunami/a/-/article/9004313/quake-survivor-saved-from-15km-out-to-sea/
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AAP
March 14, 2011, 8:45 am
A Japanese man who was swept 15km out to sea by Japan's deadly tsunami was plucked to safety on Sunday after being spotted clinging to a piece of wreckage, officials said.
A Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer rescued 60-year-old Hiromitsu Shinkawa after discovering him floating on a piece of roof in waters off Fukushima Prefecture, two days after the disaster struck.
The man, from the city of Minamisoma which has been virtually obliterated, was swept out along with his house after the massive tsunami tore into Japan's northeast following a 9-magnitude earthquake on Friday.
He is conscious and in "good condition" after his rescue which took place around 12.40pm local time, ministry officials said, adding that he was taken to hospital by helicopter.
"I ran away after learning that the tsunami was coming," Shinkawa told rescuers, according to Jiji Press.
"But I turned back to pick up something at home, when I was washed away. I was rescued while I was hanging to the roof from my house."
The government has said that at least 1,000 people are believed to have lost their lives in the disaster, and police estimate more than 215,000 people are huddled in emergency shelters.
However, the police chief of badly-hit Miyagi prefecture, which lies north of Fukushima, said that the death toll was certain to exceed 10,000 in his district alone.
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/japan-tsunami/a/-/article/9004313/quake-survivor-saved-from-15km-out-to-sea/
(includes video)
tsjonathan
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Thanks guys!
can't watch the game tonight cause of the black outs…
can't watch the game tonight cause of the black outs…
hammertime
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Scary happenings over there. I just heard there was another reactor explosion and a new tsunami warning.
@alien said:
Don't get too worried Alien. You're right when you say their government wouldn't be releasing all information, but if there were serious issues afoot, they'd would most definitely start mass evacuations of surrounding regions. The Japanese are quite anal when it comes to design and they have an extremely strict building code due to being so prone to earthquake activity, and their inner containment vessels would be very well designed and would take a devastating cooling system failure in order to breach it.
Nuclear reactors have a number of safety features and despite the fact that uranium is a volatile element, there are a number of ways to control it in such an event. Simply put, if it was going to be a Chernobyl, which was a human caused containment failure, it would have happened already. Their physicists have done extremely well to keep the reactors under control after such a catastrophic event, and if there is leakage, it will not nearly be as rampant as Chernobyl.
BrissieTiger67
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latest is that that the recent explosion may have caused a "minor mass radioactive leak".
