Japan is getting ROCKED

ceebee

8.9 magnitude earthquake. Hope the polycounters out there and everybody else are alright!

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/japan.quake/index.html?hpt=T1

Live: http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish TSUNAMIS, SHIT.

Kwramm

oh cr**.... didn't feel anything here. Guess we're too far away. I hope everyone's alright!

aesir

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eIVp8EwG5Y[/ame]

aesir

also, the al jazeera live stream is excellent: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

EmAr

That looks horrible, I am trying to believe they are well prepared for this kind of things.

Ben Apuna

I hope the Polycounters in Japan are OK.

I'm going to be watching out for tsunamis, hopefully nothing hits here.

dfacto

My god, this is an absolutely huge quake, and the tsunami looks absolutely huge as well (4 meters!).

Hope most people got the early warning and could get out, though I already heard a village was wiped out by the tsunami already.

Edit: apparently the tsunami was 10m is some areas... The aftermath of this is going to be huge:poly122:

Emperors Teeth

The clip on the BBC website is probably one of the most horrifying I've ever seen, of anything, ever. My co-worker described it as a storm of civilisation soup...

Just watch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709598

It's even worse when you realise people are likely in some of those vehicles/buildings.

Poribo

Man, this is terrible, I was just watching it on TV. One disaster after another. Here in Australia, we've had our disasters: Victoria bushfires, Queensland floods and next to us we have New Zealand getting earthquakes.

I hope the Japanese stays safe, and the tsunami/earthquakes will end soon.

vofff

Is it end of the world?

Tom Ellis

Absolutely horrific, really hope all those affected are ok.

And yeah, come on Japan PC'ers, let us know you're ok!

Stinger88

I've been having trouble with my Car lately, which caused a bit of stress.

but, when you see a whole communities vehicles, building, etc floating down the street like leaves in a pond. It kinda puts things in perspective.

Hope PC'ers out in that part of the world are ok.

crazyfingers

Hope the toll isn't as bad as it looks like it will be, very scary.

Edit: Good lord, 8.9 that is MASSIVE. Hopes and prayers go to japan right now.

disanski

I hope there are not too many victims... Looks very dangerous. How powerful is the nature.....

Gmanx

Hell fire - ten metre high wall of mud, vehicles and houses wiping out everything in it's path. I hope they can keep the four affected nuclear reactors cool.

Anyone heard from Hawken King? Is he still out there?

tristamus

Nature always reminds us how fragile we are....

The Japanese definitely do plan for these things being that they are an island, and they know that, but this Earthquake was fucking ENORMOUS. Not much they could of done to prepare for it other than what they already have done....

My heart goes out to Japan, hope all are safe...

My heart is gonna sink tomorrow if I hear a high death count...

ceebee

I had my first earthquake experience here in LA and it was a 4.4 or something. Felt my apartment building sway back and forth and I was only on the 3rd floor. It must've been horrifying in a 30+ story building in Tokyo.

Andreas

Ruz

hope everyone is ok, hawken?

Entity

Hawken is in tokyo right? Fuck I hope he's alright

Tom Ellis

Entity wrote: »

Hawken is in tokyo right? Fuck I hope he's alright

Lamont's based in Japan too, he's outside of Tokyo I believe, lets hope he's ok also.

Ben Apuna

sama.van and rasmus as well. I think Lamont is north of Tokyo too

TheSplash

Currently staying in Tokyo, was woken up this afternoon by the quake. There have been many aftershocks in the past few hours, kind of hard to relax, but I think they have finally stopped.

Tokyo is very congested at the moment, many thousands of people trapped in the city unable to get home, phones are jammed, trains unable to run etc.

I was in in Brisbane for the Queensland floods in Australia earlier this year (my suburb was affected) and I have to say, this tsunami seems much, much worse. The scale of this, and the loss of life is shocking.

sama.van

Does someone has the Lamont's phone number? he lives in the dangerous zone.... He is not on MSN and googletalk from the earthquake...

brandoom

This is rediculous..

Earthquake after earthquake.

Should we start a pole to see which country will be next?

jeeeez. Hope both Hawking, Lamont and any other polycounters in the effected region are alright =\

gauss

God bless, stay safe to everyone in Japan right now.

Darth Tomi

What a terrible week- first they pass the Walker bill, then an earthquake.

fearian

sama.van wrote: »

Does someone has the Lamont's phone number? he lives in the dangerous zone.... He is not on MSN and googletalk from the earthquake...

He has one on his portfolio if you can give it a try: http://cgbylg.com/?page_id=60

Andreas

Apparently Tokyo wasnt badly hit, but the North is badly damaged, though this is just what Ive heard friends in tokyo say, I've seen no news on this at all, almost afraid to look

skankerzero

I know Hawken is ok. He's posting pics on his Facebook.

bbob

Damn planet, doing whatever it wants..

Hope everyone is OK

haiddasalami

hope all the japan polycounters are ok.

Nemlet17

This is just horrible. Hope everyone is ok. Stay safe polycounters!

adam

From what I can gather Hawken is alright. It's late there now so don't expect him to reply here. His apartment and office were rocked pretty heavily.

Xenobond

Del

~ Thanks for the update Adam. If anyone hears from Lamont please post. It's very worrying.

NoctyQ

Ow, seriously hope that everyone is okay.
Everyone located in Japan should tune in so we know that they're okay..
The Lamont case makes me worried.

Slum

I tried to contact Lamont through email, but no response yet.

Skamberin

Hope Lamont is alright, hopefully he's just busy helping people out and getting his bearings or something.

Slum

I would imagine some areas have lost internet/phone service with everything going on.

PogoP

*runs off to email Lamont* Come on guys, let's save him with emails! :P

This is awful. My girlfriend text me this morning to say what had happened so I sat in bed watching the news... You really don't think of this sorta stuff happening to such civilised cities/towns (I know similar earthquakes happened in Oz and New Zealand, but when you think of Japan you think of super-techland).

I wish the best for everyone over there, and hope the mortality count doesn't rise any more.

Dn2

Lamont!

Mark Dygert

PogoP wrote: »

*runs off to email Lamont* Come on guys, let's save him with emails! :P

This is awful. My girlfriend text me this morning to say what had happened so I sat in bed watching the news... You really don't think of this sorta stuff happening to such civilised cities/towns (I know similar earthquakes happened in Oz and New Zealand, but when you think of Japan you think of super-techland).

I wish the best for everyone over there, and hope the mortality count doesn't rise any more.

Well, it could of been a lot worse if it wasn't in Japan. Look at Hatti, its widely thought that if they had even a 5th of Japans building codes and construction methods more people would be alive today. I'm sure Japan will be back up on its feet and teaching us all amazing things about how to minimize earthquake damage. Until then stay safe guys.

Tom Ellis

Mark Dygert wrote: »

I'm sure Japan will be back up on its feet and teaching us all amazing things about how to minimize earthquake damage. Until then stay safe guys.

Just the way they handle it at all blows my mind. I mean, I know they get a lot of earthquakes over there, but I couldn't believe the videos I've seen where they just calmly walk out of their building and evacuate to a park.

Makes me even more ashamed that my country crumbles under a couple inches of snow.

e-freak

Friends of mine told me their house is still up and no one of them is hurt but most of the furniture is broken. They live a 150km away from tokyo, power supply and water is down for them though.

Ruz

What I found amazing was in the middle of an earthquake the supermarket staff were more concerned about the bottles of wine falling off the shelf than their own safety

aesir

Ruz wrote: »

What I found amazing was in the middle of an earthquake the supermarket staff were more concerned about the bottles of wine falling off the shelf than their own safety

smaller earthquakes seem to happen quite often in japan.

equil

i hope everyone's safe.

Rico

Lamont is the only person I know that lives in Japan, he automatically popped in my head when I heard what happened. Hopefully he's alright, crossing my fingers for him.

Mark Dygert

equil wrote: »

i hope everyone's safe.

I'm not a Gundam fan but... NOOOOOOOoOoOoOOooooo....!

Also, more pics:
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/11/from-the-sky-aerial.html

Gmanx

For some reason this pic says more to me than any other from today.