Man, its nuts. Initial quake of something like 8.8, and aftershocks of 6.0 and higher...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/145_40.php


Then this:

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



Craziness.


I have a friend who is over there on business, and has been feeling the quakes.

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16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

Holy crap. The video is shocking stuff.

Seeing those debris saturated waves of salt water churn over farmland is heartbreaking. How long does it take farmland to recover from that?

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My room mate's parents live in Kailua. Best wishes to them.

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My cousin lives in Tokyo- my brother just called me to let me know he was able to text him and he is OK. I am supposed to work on a house in Carmel today that is a half block from the beach! Maybe I'll get a day off finally. Best wishes to all who are affected.

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It's a yawner here in Hawaii, the state dodged another bullet. No big wave, just a higher sea level rise and fall every half hour or so as the ripples race by at 500 mph towards the east.

when will it hit Cali?

It looks very chaotic. Apparently its cold there and millions are without power.

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2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

the street in front of our house was clogged with scores of cars trying to find higher ground. I ended up working from home until the panic eases--17 and 152 were jammed.

so far, one boat damaged in Santa Cruz harbor, that's all.

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2003 LS430 78K
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I wasn't sweating it. Low tide was about an hour after the time it was supposed to hit Cal. I'm on the south bay now, about 5 feet above sea level. I can only imagine the innards of the bay would get it much more mildly than the actual coast. The mouth of the bay is not that big. About as wide as the golden gate bridge is long.

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8.8 is terrifying. I remember the big Northridge, CA earthquake as a kid and it was only in the 6 range.. quite scary

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I think the really big concern right now is the nuclear reactors that are damaged.

yes, that safe clean energy source is is already hemorrhaging radiation, and one plant is having trouble with its backup cooling system. the expert on msnbc says meltdown is not out of the range of possibilities.

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I too remember Northridge as a kid, I didn't realize that was only a 6 something. I lived right on the coast in southern cali and the sound of water sloshing side to side in the harbor was not cool!

For being such a big quake, at least a full point over any of the biggest ones in the past few decades, it's amazing that more weren't killed (from what we know so far). Japan does have some of the strictest building codes when it comes to earthquakes, they kind of set the gold standard in that area.

As far as the nuclear meltdowns go, its just a case of media hype at the moment. Charlie Sheen has gotten boring. Both of the plants that are having cooling issues are built completely different than either Three Mile or Chernobyl, so nobody can really say what's going on, or how close or not close they are to "melting down".

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The Richter scale is exponential, right?
So an 8 is 100 times the energy of a 6? A 9 would be 1000 times more than a 6.

That is some shock!

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m.i.t. guy says power plant emittiing 8 times normal radiation outside, 1000 times normal radiation inside. trying to bring in more generators to pump cooling water.

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