Japan rocked with 8.9 earthquake.

[cassiesmom]

The earthquake in Japan and the previous one in New Zealand weren't even 3 weeks apart. I heard on the news that geologists are still recording aftershocks in Japan. In the newspaper yesterday it said that ocean waves from British Columbia to California were measured as an effect of the earthquake and tsunami all the way in Japan. Yikes.

Is Japan considered a densely populated country? Or maybe just some of their major cities are. The Amazing Race competitors were there last week and there were lots of people and cars in the streets. When I've seen pictures they often show high rise buildings and talk about the amount of time the Japanese people spend commuting, either by car or public transportation.

[blue]

Blue:
You are trying to compare apples to oranges. Yes, there were many more lives lost in Haiti and Indonesia, and the events there are probably not what you might refer to as world changing. But - were either of these considered big players in the world economy? No!!! Therein lies your difference. The loss of even one life is tragic, and I'm not downplaying the tragedy of Haiti or Indonesia, but it is, what it is. And even tho the loss of life will be far less in Japan (hopefully), the destruction that this industrialized nation has endured, will be felt worldwide for a long time to come. IMO.

Im comparing loss of life from one natural disaster to another, that is all.

The Japanese are very resilient, they have proven that over and over again. Because of this there has been so little loss of life compared to their population. After WW2 they rebuilt to where they where even with the restrictions the Allies put on them.

So again I may have been wrong about this being a world changing event. Japan could rebuild to be even more technologically advanced then they where before the earthquake.

[wombat2u2004]

The Japanese are very resilient, they have proven that over and over again. Because of this there has been so little loss of life compared to their population. After WW2 they rebuilt to where they where even with the restrictions the Allies put on them.

So again I may have been wrong about this being a world changing event. Japan could rebuild to be even more technologically advanced then they where before the earthquake.

Yeah, I have to go with that to. This won't be like the Katrina aftermath.
The Japs will fix it all up in no time.

[wombat2u2004]

Not good news....
Reactor No.2 blew this morning.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml

[sana]

Today in the assembly, our Head Mistress asked us what special thing we noticed on TV in the news about the Japanese, and she told us that nobody panicked because its thee worst thing during earthquakes and all these natural disasters. When the earthquake came, before all that, they had been practicing and taking its exercises daily and on a routine and during the earthquake, people in supermarkets stood against to the shelves and later when they were getting food from the supermarkets, everybody stood in lines and did not break the lines and then she asked all the girls "Is there an earthquake coming in the breaktime" lol, some girls are usually breaking the lines and all that during break in front of the canteen We studied waves in the Science Period and our teacher also talked to us about this earthquake and the earthquake in 2005 in Pakistan.

[pomtzu]

So again I may have been wrong about this being a world changing event. Japan could rebuild to be even more technologically advanced then they where before the earthquake.

If there is any safe land left to build on. Okay - that's an exaggeration - but this whole mess with the nuclear reactors~~~~~well, it just keeps getting worse!

[wombat2u2004]

If there is any safe land left to build on. Okay - that's an exaggeration - but this whole mess with the nuclear reactors~~~~~well, it just keeps getting worse!

Hey, you've got your very own nuclear reactors built straddling the San Andreas Fault to.

[wombat2u2004]

List of earthquakes in Asia over the past 7 days.
As you can see........most are in and around Japan.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...n/Asia_eqs.php

[wombat2u2004]

Shakemap of affected area in Japan.
1th March 2011....9.0 Magnitude.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...hake/c0001xgp/

[Cincy'sMom]

The latest from my friend in Japan is that the town she is in is ebing evacuated (20 miles from the Reactors). The group she is with (She is there teaching English) will be moved to Tokyo and then flown back to the states.

[pomtzu]

Hey, you've got your very own nuclear reactors built straddling the San Andreas Fault to.

And that's why I'm glad I live 3000 miles to the east of it! When Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania had their partial meltdown, that was even too close to me. A lot of my ex's relatives lived close enough to have to be evacuated.

I live just across the Delaware Bay from the Salem Nuclear Power Plant in New Jersey, and can see the condensation from the cooling towers from my house. Hopefully that place never blows. I'm close enough to be in trouble.

[wombat2u2004]

And that's why I'm glad I live 3000 miles to the east of it! When Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania had their partial meltdown, that was even too close to me. A lot of my ex's relatives lived close enough to have to be evacuated.

I live just across the Delaware Bay from the Salem Nuclear Power Plant in New Jersey, and can see the condensation from the cooling towers from my house. Hopefully that place never blows. I'm close enough to be in trouble.

Trouble is, wind can carry the radiation half way around the world.
But what can we do ??? We need the power they create.

[wombat2u2004]

Before and after pics of the devastation.
2 X pages

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/ja...eforeafter.htm

[Kirsten]

Yesterday, the German government made a decision re. our nuclear power plants. Only last fall, they extended the lifespans of our reactors (which our previous government had once decided to shut down), now the Merkel government decided to cancel the lifespan extensions. And 7 reactors, the oldest ones, will be shut down in the near future:

German media roundup: Merkel's nuclear U-turn

[Grace]

Did any of you ever read the book, or see the movie, On the Beach? Book written by Nevil Shute. Movie with Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck.