8.8 Earthquake hits Japan

[BoomerD]

Cultural context. Read "Heavenly Intervention" as "Natural Phenomenon"


BBC reporting confirmed dead/missing at over 11,000 🙁

That makes absolutely NO sense...Here's his statement:

"Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara told reporters March 14 that the March 11 earthquake and tsunami was “punishment from heaven” because the Japanese people had become greedy.*"

Changing it as you suggested:

"Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara told reporters March 14 that the March 11 earthquake and tsunami was “punishment from Natural Phenomenon” because the Japanese people had become greedy.*"

It just doesn't make sense...cultural differences or not.

 

[sdifox]

That makes absolutely NO sense...Here's his statement:



Changing it as you suggested:



It just doesn't make sense...cultural differences or not.

well, I guess I needed the second part 😛

Punishment from the gods I guess it is.

 

[Juddog]

It was probably already mentioned, but the quake is now officially rated at 9.0 instead of 8.9.

Also I saw about how a guy is predicting the US west coast is next:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-vZkPP1RfQ&feature=player_embedded

 

[Juddog]

I'm reminded of this Tool song:
"It's a
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz
I sure could use a vacation from this

Silly shit, stupid shit..."

 

[Ichinisan]

Bumping this thread because people keep posting quake / tsunami pics in the other thread (the one about the evolving nuclear threat).

Now, can a mod please edit the "8.8" in the title and make it "9.0?"

 

[BoomerD]

The Seven Dumbest Things People Have Said (So Far) About The Japan Disaster

Larry Kudlow
"The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that. And the human toll is a tragedy, we know that, but these markets, all these markets, right, stocks, commodities, oil, gold, there is no major breakout or breakdown and I have to look at that positively."

Berita Harian
The Malaysia paper printed a cartoon depicting Japanese cartoon superhero Ultraman attempting to outrun the tsunami.

Cappie Pondexter
"What if God was tired of the way they treated their own people in there own country! Idk guys he makes no mistakes,"
"u just never knw! They did pearl harbor so u can't expect anything less."

Gilbert Gottfried
"Japan called me. They said maybe those jokes are a hit in the U.S., but over here, they're all sinking."

"I was talking to my Japanese real estate agent. I said is there a school in this area.She said not now, but just wait."

Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara
"Japanese politics is tainted with egoism and populism. We need to use the tsunami to wipe out egoism, which has attached itself like rust to the mentality of the Japanese people over a long period of time."

“I think [the disaster] is tembatsu (divine punishment), although I feel sorry for disaster victims,

Glenn Beck
Plenty of people were upset that the Fox News host called the tsunami a "message" from God: "I'm not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes – well I'm not not saying that either! What God does is God's business, I have no idea. But I'll tell you this – whether you call it Gaia or whether you call it Jesus, there's a message being sent.”

Rush Limbaugh
After a caller asked "If these are the people that invented the Prius, have mastered public transportation, recycling, why did Mother Earth, Gaia if you will, hit them with this disaster?" Limbaugh responded: "He's right. They've given us the Prius. Even now, refugees are recycling their garbage and yet, Gaia levels them! Just wipes them out!"

http://www.businessinsider.com/glenn-beck-rush-limbaugh-japan-disaster-2011-3

 

[BoomerD]

Anyone else think this looks like a bad photoshop?

Head MUCH too big for the body...

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Glenn Beck
Plenty of people were upset that the Fox News host called the tsunami a "message" from God: "I'm not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes – well I'm not not saying that either! What God does is God's business, I have no idea. But I'll tell you this – whether you call it Gaia or whether you call it Jesus, there's a message being sent.”

never underestimate the power of stupid.

 

[Zorkorist]

Never underestimate "God's" theatre of pain.

-John

 

[paulney]

What's up with Zorkorist trolling in Japan threads. Go back to P&N. You were out-trolled in the nuclear thread, so you move your dickscarfery here?

 

[Locut0s]

Never underestimate "God's" theatre of pain.

-John

Never underestimate the stupidity of mankind to attribute to an "angry God" that which is so obviously the result of indifferent nature.

 

[Locut0s]

Anyone else think this looks like a bad photoshop?

Head MUCH too big for the body...

I think he really does have a large head but it's being exaggerated by a combination of the suite he is wearing (no neck showing), the camera angle, and the background. I don't think he quite looks comical like you think, I've seen people like this.

 

[Zorkorist]

What's up with Zorkorist trolling in Japan threads. Go back to P&N. You were out-trolled in the nuclear thread, so you move your dickscarfery here?

I don't troll. I am always exactly who I am. Those here that think I troll, end up putting 15 posts about how I am a troll, when all I am is a poster.

'nuff with the troll stuff.

-John

 

[Ichinisan]

I don't troll. I am always exactly who I am. Those here that think I troll, end up putting 15 posts about how I am a troll, when all I am is a poster.

'nuff with the troll stuff.

-John

I actually believe you.

-Eunice

 

[Locut0s]

I don't troll. I am always exactly who I am. Those here that think I troll, end up putting 15 posts about how I am a troll, when all I am is a poster.

'nuff with the troll stuff.

-John

I don't think you are a troll. I just STRONGLY disagree with everything you have said so far.

 

[Zorkorist]

I don't think you are a troll. I just STRONGLY disagree with everything you have said so far.

Whicj is fine and dandy.

This is a discussion forum, for thoughts and ideas.

-John

 

[BoomerD]

Damn...something's STILL going on over there...

Looking at this map:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia.php

As of 12:45 PDT, there are 559 earthquakes on the map, and according to this list of quakes of 5.0 and larger for the past 7 days:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php

the vast majority are listed as

OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

There are more than 30 on that list of quakes in the Japan region larger than 6.0.

Has Godzirra woken?

Here's a nifty little visual:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42037498/ns/world_news-asia-pacific/

 

[Locut0s]

Wow thanks for the links. You really get a visceral feeling of the pressure being slowly unleashed in thousands of bursts with that animated showcase.

Damn...something's STILL going on over there...

Looking at this map:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia.php

As of 12:45 PDT, there are 559 earthquakes on the map, and according to this list of quakes of 5.0 and larger for the past 7 days:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php

the vast majority are listed as
There are more than 30 on that list of quakes in the Japan region larger than 6.0.

Has Godzirra woken?

Here's a nifty little visual:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42037498/ns/world_news-asia-pacific/

 

[tcsenter]

Damn...something's STILL going on over there...

Big earthquake spawn many big aftershock. Small earthquake spawn many small aftershock. Grasshopper.

 

[Ninjahedge]

It all depends on how much stress was relieved in the initial quake.

If it just happened to slip enough, you will get few, if any. But if some areas did not keep up 9the bedrock developed tension or compression stresses due to uneven motion) then you are prone to having another slip happen until a temporarily stable position is achieved.

It does not matter (directly) how big or small the quake was. It just matters how many other areas have this residual stress and how close they are to the original event. (In all fairness, the larger the quake the larger the AOE. So a bigger quake can trip other instabilities further away than a small quake....)

 

[DrunkenSano]

The MSNBC animation makes it look like there's a war going on off the coast.

 

[Capt Caveman]

So sad. 🙁

Hope for missing fades in Japan; elderly hard-hit

 

[skyking]

So sad. 🙁

Hope for missing fades in Japan; elderly hard-hit

Very sad. damn. I see the folks at the nursing home I support and cannot fathom half of them dying like that and then 11 more due to conditions.

 

[dennilfloss]

Sound of the Japan 9.0 quake. http://www.eitb.com/video/en/news/world/detail/620203/this-was-the-sound-the-quake-rocked-japan/

Fascinating.

 

[sdifox]

1. 1446: Last Friday's tsunami generated waves at least 23m (76ft) high, according to a study by the Port and Airport Research Institute in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, the Yomiuri daily newspaper reports.

23m wtfbbq!


that's 75.4ft for thee Imperial Unit users.