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Old 11 March 2011, 03:03 PM
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Live from Hawaii.

Seems to be ok.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLi....html?stream=4
Old 11 March 2011, 03:40 PM
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A 2m Tsunami is huge.

As it nears shore it will turn into a much higher wave.
Old 11 March 2011, 04:20 PM
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They are issuing warnings here, although the wave is only supposed to be 2ft by the time it hits the coast.

(I'm in San Francisco, flying out this evening)
Old 11 March 2011, 04:25 PM
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It's just hit Oregon.
Old 11 March 2011, 08:17 PM
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Is this Karma for Pearl Harbour, Whale killing and shark fin soup?
Old 11 March 2011, 09:58 PM
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Old 11 March 2011, 10:13 PM
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As far as i could tell micronesia has been spared , can you imagine a wave higher than the highest bit of land on your little island
Old 11 March 2011, 10:28 PM
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That is what happened in the Maldives.
Old 11 March 2011, 11:40 PM
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just shows that the idiots arguing that the planet needs saving are 180 degrees out
Old 12 March 2011, 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by chrispurvis100
That has sent shivers down my spine watching it on the bbc website.Mother nature seems very angry at the moment doesn't she. Almost as if the 2012 prediction is starting to hold some weight!

She is annoyed. And these things are getting worse and stronger. Does make you wonder.
No disrespect to that area, but they are famous for mass pollution. It's been posted on here before.
It's still awful and very, very tragic.
Old 12 March 2011, 06:04 AM
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"Doggy" from this forum is in Japan right now, he was sent over for 3 months as part of the training for his new job, he says its pretty crazy, some of his pictures he has taken have been quite impressive tbh.
Old 12 March 2011, 10:54 AM
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Nuclear plant has exploded!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219
Old 12 March 2011, 04:29 PM
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This brings it home - what was once a city reduced to this...

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...11507145-1.jpg
Old 12 March 2011, 05:46 PM
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This is unreal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LPGzzaSsbU
Old 12 March 2011, 06:13 PM
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々はあなたの安全性と健康を祈ります
Old 12 March 2011, 06:21 PM
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The footage of Skyscrapers swaying was insane.

I gotta say I've been very impressed with what I have seen of the Japanese society and government so far.
Old 12 March 2011, 06:23 PM
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the most danger comes from aftershocks..i had 11 one night and woke up in bed beside my sister
Old 13 March 2011, 12:46 AM
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WTF?


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Old 13 March 2011, 12:57 AM
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thats wot she said
Old 13 March 2011, 03:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Trout
々はあなたの安全性と健康を祈ります
Thanks mate

I've been in Japan for nearly 5 years... and let's just say it was one of the scariest things to ever happen to me!

I live in the prefecture of Gunma, so only about 450miles away from where the real havoc wreaked, but it shooks things up pretty bad where I was.


As for the person who made this comment
Is this Karma for Pearl Harbour, Whale killing and shark fin soup?
It certainly is no joke mate

So just to let you know, at least one scoobynet member in Japan is ok... I also have mates from other car forums, and they are all safe too
Old 13 March 2011, 09:35 AM
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The 6 foot wave is an indication of the shock wave from the earthquake being transmitted via the water in the sea.

When it reaches a coast the shallower water causes the wave to increase in size and can then turn into a tidal wave which will flow over the coast concerned.

Les
Old 13 March 2011, 10:06 AM
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kind of makes you grateful for living in such a wonderfully boring location like England
Old 13 March 2011, 10:40 AM
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Funny you should say that!

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Old 13 March 2011, 10:42 AM
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This is what the Yanks think about it.

http://www.viceland.com/wp/2011/03/t...-pearl-harbor/
Old 13 March 2011, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by jonnyrex

That's got to be liquifaction causing that... the ground is floating on a bed of water or saturated ground underneath.

Scary scary stuff
Old 13 March 2011, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Wurzel
This is what the Yanks think about it.

http://www.viceland.com/wp/2011/03/t...-pearl-harbor/
What a bunch of a$$holes!

They got pay back on Pearl Harbour by the nuke they dropped.
Old 13 March 2011, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by RA Dunk
What a bunch of a$$holes!

They got pay back on Pearl Harbour by the nukeS they dropped.
Slight correction made.
Old 13 March 2011, 11:18 AM
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Yea my mistake, I can't believe the arrogance of some of those people TBH, fair enough the jokes are out already and some of them are pretty funny but to say things like they deserve it etc is a bit much.
Old 13 March 2011, 11:32 AM
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SN member Coolangatta lives over there. I'm worried about him.
Old 13 March 2011, 12:09 PM
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BBC reporter just called the Tsunami a "tidal wave" - what a pillock.


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