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Post by byz on Mar 11, 2011 8:03:37 GMT
I know a few people on this blog are based on the west coast of the US.
I hope that you are all safe in the next 24 hours.
Also anyone who reads this on the pacific rim also.
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Post by byz on Mar 11, 2011 8:07:19 GMT
Tsunami sirens are currently sounding in Hawaii. If it hits it will be in five hours, we'll then get an idea about how big the wave hitting the west coast will be  |
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Post by byz on Mar 11, 2011 8:10:19 GMT
US geological survey say that the main quake was "Massive".
The aftershocks are as big as the Christchurch earthquake.
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Post by byz on Mar 11, 2011 8:30:17 GMT
The quake is the 5th largest since 1900
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Post by djake on Mar 11, 2011 12:16:59 GMT
So far from what I've seen on the Tsunami warning sites. The expected wave height for the West Coast is around 3/4 of a meter, with some as high as 2.23 meters. wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/ |
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Post by scpg02 on Mar 12, 2011 1:54:00 GMT
Docks in the Bay Area broke apart sending boats all over. One man reported dead. All's well here though.
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Post by ZL4DH on Mar 13, 2011 1:16:49 GMT
US geological survey say that the main quake was "Massive". The aftershocks are as big as the Christchurch earthquake. The main one was 8000 times bigger than Christchurch. |
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Post by spaceman on Mar 16, 2011 13:01:09 GMT
The natural disaster has unleashed a man made one. With the nuclear radiation being released, will the fish from Alaska be safe to eat or the food from California? How much radiation is being released? How far will it travel? I am trying not to over react here. Governments and industry in the past have been less than forth coming in the dangers involved. Then they wonder why people panic. It isn't them or their families that come down sick .So far 4 reactors are involved. Will northern Japan have to be evacuated? Thankfully the winds are blowing out to sea.
At this rate of contamination, the earth 's surface will be totally polluted in about 1000 years.
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Post by curiousgeorge on Mar 16, 2011 14:26:53 GMT
The natural disaster has unleashed a man made one. With the nuclear radiation being released, will the fish from Alaska be safe to eat or the food from California? How much radiation is being released? How far will it travel? I am trying not to over react here. Governments and industry in the past have been less than forth coming in the dangers involved. Then they wonder why people panic. It isn't them or their families that come down sick .So far 4 reactors are involved. Will northern Japan have to be evacuated? Thankfully the winds are blowing out to sea. At this rate of contamination, the earth 's surface will be totally polluted in about 1000 years. Let's put a little perspective on this shall we? There are several million people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today. Those cities were rebuilt and heavily re-populated within 20 years after the bombings. People are not dropping dead from radiation exposure, and there are no zombie mutants running around. Also comparison to Chernobyl, which was a far more serious situation: www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html The media is hyping this for all it's worth. |
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Post by karlox on Mar 16, 2011 17:16:36 GMT
The natural disaster has unleashed a man made one. With the nuclear radiation being released, will the fish from Alaska be safe to eat or the food from California? How much radiation is being released? How far will it travel? I am trying not to over react here. Governments and industry in the past have been less than forth coming in the dangers involved. Then they wonder why people panic. It isn't them or their families that come down sick .So far 4 reactors are involved. Will northern Japan have to be evacuated? Thankfully the winds are blowing out to sea. At this rate of contamination, the earth 's surface will be totally polluted in about 1000 years. Let's put a little perspective on this shall we? There are several million people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today. Those cities were rebuilt and heavily re-populated within 20 years after the bombings. People are not dropping dead from radiation exposure, and there are no zombie mutants running around. Also comparison to Chernobyl, which was a far more serious situation: www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html The media is hyping this for all it's worth. Thanks God we shall always have the media to be blamed for this-shall-never-happen scenario! |
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Post by karlox on Mar 16, 2011 17:17:45 GMT
Well, who cares? It´s "cheap", isn´t it?
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Post by karlox on Mar 16, 2011 17:20:47 GMT
"Japanese quake and oncoming tsunami"
Good Thread id: look for the oncoming ¨tsunami¨... we are not there yet...
:-)
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Post by curiousgeorge on Mar 16, 2011 19:41:08 GMT
Let's put a little perspective on this shall we? There are several million people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today. Those cities were rebuilt and heavily re-populated within 20 years after the bombings. People are not dropping dead from radiation exposure, and there are no zombie mutants running around. Also comparison to Chernobyl, which was a far more serious situation: www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html The media is hyping this for all it's worth. Thanks God we shall always have the media to be blamed for this-shall-never-happen scenario! I assume you are being sarcastic? |
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Post by karlox on Mar 17, 2011 13:22:56 GMT
I am just feeling very very sad for what´s going on in Japan right now indeed. Don´t think there is any hyping from most media sources. Chernobil was a cat 7 event that occurred in a very unsafe and outdated plant etc. For what I am hearing and reading currently from very different media sources, in my opinion, this could derive in a Slow-motion-Chernobil disaster -currently cat 6, media said- and affect thus a very highly populated area such as Tokyo and surroundings (30, 40 million people living there). How could they even evaccuate such large population in case it is needed? Next hours seem to be very decisive... US Army Forces security area being (evacuated) of 80km radius from the plant, 20km for the area inhabitants -according to Japanese Government instructions- and from 20km to 30km radius warnings such as "try to stay at home and close the windows". Just praying for this not going further!
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Post by curiousgeorge on Mar 18, 2011 0:14:07 GMT
I am just feeling very very sad for what´s going on in Japan right now indeed. Don´t think there is any hyping from most media sources. Chernobil was a cat 7 event that occurred in a very unsafe and outdated plant etc. For what I am hearing and reading currently from very different media sources, in my opinion, this could derive in a Slow-motion-Chernobil disaster -currently cat 6, media said- and affect thus a very highly populated area such as Tokyo and surroundings (30, 40 million people living there). How could they even evaccuate such large population in case it is needed? Next hours seem to be very decisive... US Army Forces security area being (evacuated) of 80km radius from the plant, 20km for the area inhabitants -according to Japanese Government instructions- and from 20km to 30km radius warnings such as "try to stay at home and close the windows". Just praying for this not going further! Tokyo is a very long way and south of Fukushima. I'd suggest that you read up on radiation from reliable scientific sources, instead of listening to what the media says. You might start with learning about the "Banana Equivalent Dose" ( not a joke, a real measure of exposure that is more understandable to non-phyiscists than rems, or sieverts). Fuzzy terms like 10x more than normal, or the other adjectives the media use, are meaningless and only scare people. They should be reporting the actual data at various distances from the source. But that would be boring wouldn't it. |
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