[dorlomin]

http://magicseaweed.com/Tsunami-Warning--Content/3105/

[dorlomin]

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/


Noaa bouy center

[Novus]

Just saw on the BBC live feed that the nuclear SCRAM system failed and officials are trying to evacuate everyone within 2km of the plant.

[dorlomin]

Moderating rods by have been damaged by the quake.

[Novus]

Holy hell LNG facility just exploded:

[dorlomin]

Whats the source for that image, its spectacular....

[Puchica]

why they waited this long to evacuate I can't understand. At 5 am EST they were telling people near the Onogawa plant to 'stay calm' and stay in place, all the while they were acknowledging that the shut down wasn't going as planned. I remember when we got the TMI evacuation order after being told for so long to stay calm. It was 'Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry,' then RUN AWAY. At least Met Ed reimbursed me 88.00 for evacuation expenses.

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', 'W')hats the source for that image, its spectacular....

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Puchica', 'w')hy they waited this long to evacuate I can't understand. At 5 am EST they were telling people near the Onogawa plant to 'stay calm' and stay in place, all the while they were acknowledging that the shut down wasn't going as planned. I remember when we got the TMI evacuation order after being told for so long to stay calm. It was 'Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry,' then RUN AWAY. At least Met Ed reimbursed me 88.00 for evacuation expenses.

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', 'W')hats the source for that image, its spectacular....

[Cid_Yama]

Moved to own thread.

[AdTheNad]

Arg, also moved reply to own thread.

[dorlomin]

Wall of water

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Japan warns of small radiation leak from quake-hit plant
By Osamu Tsukimori and Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters / Mar 12, 2011

TOKYO, March 12 (Reuters) - Japan warned there could be a small radiation leak from a nuclear reactor whose cooling system was knocked out by Friday's massive earthquake, but thousands of residents in the area had already been moved out of harm's way.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Fukushima reactor pressure may have hit 2.1 times capacity
Reporting by Risa Maeda; Editing by Edmund Klamann / Reuters / Mar 12, 2011

TOKYO (Reuters) - Pressure inside a reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant may have risen to 2.1 times its designed capacity, Japan's trade ministry said on Saturday, exceeding the 1.5-times level announced a few hours earlier.

[bratticus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyQn4PgMkaE

[TheDude]

YouTube: Walls of water, courtesy the Guardian.

[Loki]

Here's a report on what the tsunami did here in Oregon.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')rookings City Manager Gary Milliman said about 60 to 85 percent of the commercial dock is destroyed. Seven boats were swept out to sea, while several others sank or sustained severe damage, he said. The body of a man was also discovered on one of the boats, but the Curry County sheriff had told Milliman it is unclear whether the death resulted from the tsunami.

[dorlomin]

The 80 workers swept out to sea on a boat have been succesfully recovered.

But the grim hard task of working out how serious this was is about to get underway.

[Novus]

The nuclear ordeal isn't over yet.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Reuters: Japan may have hours to prevent nuclear meltdown