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Earthquake in Japan

Started by lancaster lady, March 11, 2011, 01:12:28 AM

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Tara

FAFE,

glad to hear they are ok, I was worried when I heard they were near the ocean.

Pen

FAFE, that's great news! I was worried. Our friends in Japan are fine too, luckily.

It's difficult to comprehend the extent of the damage and the impact on so many millions of people. Haiti is still dealing with the aftermath and it's been over a year. I imagine many Haitians are afraid they're going to be forgotten after NZ and now Japan. My heart hurts for everyone.
Respect ... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.
-- Annie Gottlieb

LaurieS

True Pen, but Japan is by far the strongest nation to deal with disasters such as this.  They will pick up the pieces and move on... Did you notice how there was no televised episodes of mass looting and violence... I do admire them in that respect.

Nana

Thank God all you ladies and relatives/friends are ok.   Yes, it must have been hell for those affected.  We got a 7.2 quake here in the Imperial Valley in California exactly on Easter Day last April.  It  seemed like the end of the world...cant imagine an 8.9.  I also admire the people in Tokyo. 

Love
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove:
Shakespeare

Rose799

Was yours one of the houses on YouTube, with the pool sloshing around, Nana?  Have you been feeling the aftershocks?  I signed up to get e-mails on those over a 4.0, I believe.  I'm still getting e-mails, quite often on a daily basis...


Nana

Dear Rose

It was not my house (have no pool lol).  But I saw one in a Crown Plaza Hotel (5 minutes from my house) and it was shocking.   We did not have electricity that night.  The earthquake was around 3:00 P.M. and I was picking up my daughter from the GreyHound Bus because she was coming from San Diego.   My son, dil and gc were at my house with my husband eating.  That night, all the people slept in their cars or next to the door in the living rooms.  There was no electricity so we took in our garden solar lamps to lighten up.  My dil's mother/father  slept for three weeks in her garage.  We had hundreds of aftershocks and we all  got crazy.   I remember seeing the street in waves ,It is going to be one year since then (exactly on Easter Sunday).  The good thing was that it was a Sunday (and Easter) so the families were together, children did not attend school, men were not at work, so all the factories and businesses were closed.  Cant imagine the chaos and casualties if it had been otherwise.  God was with us all.   7.2....cant forget.  Many houses had to be reconstructed.   Mine had to be cleaned up thoroughly because everything felt to the ground, china, glasses broken, pieces of the  wall.    When I came home from picking my daughter my husband, son, dil and gk were all outside and guess what?  My gk came running to me and smash their egg shells. on my head.   They steel wanted to have fun on Easter Sunday.   

This earthquake was also felt in San Diego (where daughter lives) but it was 6 F.   I believe it was also felt in L.A. 

Lets hope we have a better Easter Sunday this year lol.

Love


Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove:
Shakespeare

Rose799

I live in S.D. & it felt it, too, Nana, but nothing near what you got.  Dh & I went to Home Depot.  I had just gotten into our vehicle to leave & was waiting for dh.  I thought he was goofing around, shaking the car, until I saw him standing some distance away.  Then I noticed other vehicles were also shaking & people started running out of the store.  It took a couple seconds to register what was happening.  I'm glad you didn't have major damage.  That was funny about the gk's~  I'd go crazy after all those aftershocks, too.  Thank heavens, we've only felt a couple of them.   

Here is a video of one of those pools I referred to & other links below for future reference~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_c89iGukA&feature=fvst


Recent earthquakes - Global:
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

California/Nevada:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsanim/canv/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/Quakes/quakes_all.html

Pacific Northwest:
http://www.ess.washington.edu/recenteqs/latest.htm

Central U.S.:
http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/

Alaska:
http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/Seis/recenteqs/index.html

Hawaii:
http://tux.wr.usgs.gov/

Tsunami Warning Center:
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/

LaurieS

The news has surpassed the shock of the tragedy and are introducing the very real heartbreaking stories.  I couldn't help but to cry as one man walked from room to room at a school house looking for his wife who had been at work when the tsunami hit.   You could see the anxiety in his eyes yet he took the time to thank and acknowledge every person he passed by.  I hope that the United States does everything within our power to help these people, the dignity and strength they are displaying is the example I wish we here were capable of as well.  What a nightmare

Pooh

It is terribly sad, and I have been watching it also.  Now dealing with the radioactivity taking place and the mass evacuations, is even more terrifying.  I also saw where we are having military personnel testing positive for radiation.  Not only are the Japanese in a bad situation, but our people over there as well.  Let's keep them all in our thoughts and prayers.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. -
Joseph Campbell

holliberri

So sad. This has an impact on all of us. I can't imagine what everyone in Japan must be going through.

FAFE

My DIL and GS were planning on going to Japan for the month of July.  Don't know if this will work out now.  Maybe her parents can come and stay with them instead.  They are older and are not in the best of health, so it may work out for DIL and GS to go as planned. 

It is truly a tragedy that I cannot wrap my mind around.  Kinda like watching the space shuttle blowing up, NYC World Trade Center collapsing, etc.  You are seeing it, but cannot imagine that it is really happening.

Pooh

It is terrible, for everyone.  In my job, I deal with nuclear.  We have a nuclear plant near us and part of our county falls into the 50 mile evacuation zone.  So we do nuclear drills twice a year, of which I am the 911 representative (Yeah, just call me the person that always goes, "Yeah, ok..I can do that").

Having some inside information on radiation, this event unfolding is really bugging me.  Don't get me wrong, I am very empathetic to what is happening to the people of Japan, but now my concern is turning towards the US.  People that are exposed and contaminated with radiation, can contaminate someone else.  I have seen nothing so far on the news, where we are taking precautions if people are flying in here from other countries and Japan.  And yes, other countries as well as people from the Japan area have probably fled into other areas by now.

I want to see on the news, airports screening people coming in, for radiation exposure.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. -
Joseph Campbell

Pooh

Ok, I am finding I have a real soft spot when it comes to these workers that are still in the nuclear plants, trying to stop a nuclear disaster, at the risk of their own lives.  What a selfless sacrafice.  They are truly heroes in my eyes.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. -
Joseph Campbell

holliberri

I was just on CNN reading about them. I'm trying not to cry at my desk. You read my thoughts.

Tara

It is a tragic situation, my heart goes out to the people of Japan


Pooh,

a friend sent me some info that if there is a melt down, esp #3 that is in such trouble, there will be significant contamination
in calif, oregon, and canada.  NY Times already said there will be radioactive air in these areas today but not significant enough
for health problems. 

DH and I sat down for a few minutes yesterday  and talked about a plan just incase we needed to evacuate for awhile
what we would do and where to go.  This letter or blog  (a doctor I guess ) said better to do a few preparations now as if it should happen, which hopefully will not, then you have what you need to either shelter in place or evacuate.  It also said not to expect
the government to be transparent.  They certainly were not transparent about the health risks in ny after 911 (which really troubles me as many of the first responders and later responders became and maybe even are still quite ill from what I have seen in documentaries)

I was wondering what your thoughts are about this?  I know everyone should have emergency prepardness kits anyway.
Tara