Yeah apparently they already have 100,000 troops en route to the Sendai and the surrounding towns. Not to mention all other departments sending people up there.

Were there many deaths as a direct result of the earthquake?

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Originally posted by Jackson Were there many deaths as a direct result of the earthquake?

As far as I remember, no, not really. The roof of a supermarket fell on a kid, some old guy had a heart attack, and so on. Outside the prefectures that were hit by the tsunami, there are just a dozen or so deaths.

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Originally posted by Jackson Were there many deaths as a direct result of the earthquake?

Quite a few because of the falling debris and collapsed buildings. It's going up all the time, at least according to NHK.

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Thing is, these houses aren't little shacks like you'd find in shanty towns. It looks like the place has been bombed.

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Originally posted by _Ocean_Drive_ Quite a few because of the falling debris and collapsed buildings. It's going up all the time, at least according to NHK.

You sure? I just watched NHK and the numbers are high only in Miyagi/Iwate/Fukushima, exactly where the tsunami hit

I'm not keeping track of what-killed-whom any more, so I reserve the right to be mistaken here...

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Originally posted by Jackson ...Speechless

4 fucking minutes. destroyed. holy shit.

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Originally posted by jonSun The ground actually cracking open & moving.

HOLY FUCK

Sat in the 7th floor of the library at uni, I just watched a Japanese guy walk up to the window and cry silently as he watched the sun setting...

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Originally posted by Jackson Sendai airport being struck - Amateur footage.

Jesus the sounds of ultimate fear in those people's voices

all of this is so hard to phathom from a weather nerd's standpoint. i'm always used to seeing such destruction caused by a weather disaster. the fact that it was sunny outside and just seeing the disaster unfold as a force of Geology and not Meteorology...blows my mind. that video of the earth opening up....man...so wicked.



this is the type of shit you see after tornadoes and hurricanes. i feel for those people...at least with weather you can see the conditions coming towards you and you know it's going to be a shit day. these people had no real heads up or warning. absolutely horrible

Watching these videos, I think the death toll is going to be much worse than initial estimates. 30-40k at least IMO.

Kudlow was listening to a report about the global stock markets doing well in the wake of the quake. "All in all, the market taking this in stride," his co-host said to him.

"The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that," Kudlow responded. "And the human toll is a tragedy, we know that."