Registered: May 2008
Location: The Pacific Northwest, of course
quote:
Originally posted by Lews
Shit my cousin lives there. Hope everyone in Hawaii will be okay, too.
I just shudder to think of what's going to happen to the countries that aren't so well prepared as Japan and America when this hits them
I cant imagine we'd be that well of, compared to the Japanese. When I was over there I was taking special notice of their earthquake infrastructure. Maybe it was because I was in Kobe, and they did a lot of rebuilding, but almost everything seemed to be built to withstand earthquakes. All the highways and train bridges/elevated railways were built to sustain a large a quake. Not at all compared to a lot of parts of Seattle or Tacoma.
Mar-11-2011 08:26
Quazar
still likes trance
Registered: Jun 2010
Location: Los Angeles, USA
quote:
Originally posted by Acton
I can't bring myself to leave for work..... I think i'll work from home today.
I just hope that everyone on the Pacific coastlines get the evacuation warnings in time, I mean, it's nighttime that side of the world, right?
It's half-past midnight in California, so about 10:30pm in Hawaii. It's late, but not too late to warn people.
Mar-11-2011 08:26
enydo
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Registered: Jan 2008
Location: NYC
The Al Jazeera broadcast is great.
Mar-11-2011 08:31
Lews
Platipus And Prog Addict
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Hugging Whales And Saving Trees
quote:
Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
I cant imagine we'd be that well of, compared to the Japanese. When I was over there I was taking special notice of their earthquake infrastructure. Maybe it was because I was in Kobe, and they did a lot of rebuilding, but almost everything seemed to be built to withstand earthquakes. All the highways and train bridges/elevated railways were built to sustain a large a quake. Not at all compared to a lot of parts of Seattle or Tacoma.
Compared to Japan, no. Compared to the rest of the world, we're pretty damn well off.
they keep showing the same images. i wanna see what's happening now :/
Mar-11-2011 08:42
Ian
Not dead yet.
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: UK
This is awful for the people of Japan but we know from experience that they are leaders at engineering against earthquake damage so hopefully it won't bring down as much as it could do in other less developed regions, Haiti being a perfect example of that. The tsunami though could be the big killer depending if and where it makes ground and how well warned those people are.
Mar-11-2011 08:44
LAdazeNYnights
Crossing Swords
Registered: Nov 2009
Location: Los Angeles, CA
jesus they're saying the tsunami in sendai was up to 33 feet
the first report i read was "13 foot tsunami"
Mar-11-2011 08:50
DaveT
NEED PERSONAL COPY-EDITOR
Registered: Jul 2002
Location: San Francisco
Tsunami watch for west coast of US. If anything happens, Tsunami will hit San Francisco around 8:08am.
4 million buildings in Tokyo w/o power. WOW!
Hawaii doing mandatory evac of lower areas. sirens blaring in the middle of the night there.
Mar-11-2011 08:51
Joss Weatherby
Banned
Registered: May 2008
Location: The Pacific Northwest, of course
Yea, I figure the sirens will be starting pretty soon on the Washington coast. Some parts of it are very flat, very far inland and this is the sort of thing they are very worried about there.
Mar-11-2011 08:57
Lews
Platipus And Prog Addict
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Hugging Whales And Saving Trees
quote:
Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Yea, I figure the sirens will be starting pretty soon on the Washington coast. Some parts of it are very flat, very far inland and this is the sort of thing they are very worried about there.
The P.I. is reporting currently that there is no warning for the West Coast.
