true, of course, and its the best in terms of efficiency and or GW, and a country of small land mass, and approx 125 million people need the best possible power source.

I am looking at a vortex (BBC World) where ships seem to be drawn in to its centre.

currently 19 dead/missing.

 

I would like to visit, or even work in Japan, someday. There's a lot of support for the Japanese and soon other countries that will be hit, many in Pacific, as Saya posted.
this can put some of our smaller problems in perspective, for sure.[/QUOTE]


yeah it would but here in colorado i love it so i just smoke it often when i can sorry to hear the big Island is gonna get hit in a few how they show the coverage of it.. there,

 

Public transport has just been suspended in Tokyo,can you imagine how many people will be on foot?What if you live kilometres away how do you get home amongst the 100's of thousands (millions?) of commuters?

 

I wanted to go back there someday. But I don't think there will be anything to go back to. It's a small nation.

 

watching the TV now and our country is also waiting for the tsunami to hit the eastern part of our archipelago.. they say that roughly 19 regions will be hit..

 

12.7 million.

a link with some interesting info.


Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

http://www.weather.gov/ptwc/?region=0

 

One thing that bothers me is those christain people on t.v in america going to say god sent it to punish them? They said the same thing with what happened in haiti and new orleans.

 

These Christian extremists...and that is what they are...have some weird ideas...

 

My background is Christian, they don't affect (or speak for)me, but I think I get your point; I tend to ignore or refute those that profess to know God's will when it comes to `acts of God'.

 

Impact in the south pacific will be minimal, there saying 25cm waves in NZ in 7 hours.

 

AAP
The 8.9-magnitude earthquake which ravaged Japan and sparked a tsunami is the largest quake to ever hit the country, an Australian expert says.

Kevin McCue, a seismologist and adjunct professor at Central Queensland University based in Canberra, said seven earthquakes over magnitude eight had rocked Japan since 1891.

In 1923 a 7.9-magnitude earthquake killed 147,00 people, Mr McCue said.

But the massive 8.9-magnitude quake on Friday superseded all of them.

"Our expectation is that many people will be killed and there will be extensive damage," Mr McCue said in a statement.

 

morning NTG! Thanks!

more good science info USGS link


http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2011/usc0001xgp/


This is a computer-generated message -- this event has not yet been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude
8.9
Date-Time
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 05:46:23 UTC
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 02:46:23 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
38.322°N, 142.369°E
Depth
24.4 km (15.2 miles) set by location program
Region
NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances
130 km (80 miles) E of Sendai, Honshu, Japan
178 km (110 miles) E of Yamagata, Honshu, Japan
178 km (110 miles) ENE of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan
373 km (231 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 13.5 km (8.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters
NST=350, Nph=351, Dmin=416.3 km, Rmss=1.46 sec, Gp= 29°,
M-type="moment" magnitude from initial P wave (tsuboi method) (Mi/Mwp), Version=A
Source
USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID
usc0001xgp

 

That is why I said the ones on t.v. There are some nice ones. Rare but they exsist. I don't mean to try to change the subject to religion. Has anyone heard anymore updates?

 

no nuclear leaks which were feared at one stage. death toll is 26

 

Got this from Google..

 

sounds like power is still on in tokyo and most of the phone networks there are still ok

 

If the phone networks are ok then why can't I get through? Unless it's too late for my cousins.

 

are they in tokyo?

they may not be close to their phones...

 

Probably power outages.

Tokyo Electric shut seven reactors at its Fukushima Daiichi and Daini atomic plants while three reactors at Tohoku Electric’s Onagawa station were halted, the trade ministry’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said in the e-mailed statement. Japan Atomic Power. shut the No. 2 reactor at its Tokai plant, the agency said.

FoElectric Power Development Co. shut its 600-megawatt No.2 unit of Isogo coal-fired plant in Yokohama.

More than four million homes serviced by Tokyo Electric are without power following the quake, Daisuke Hirose, a spokesman for the utility, said today by phone.

 

(Reuters) - A fire broke out at Tohoku Electric Power Co's (9506.T) Onagawa nuclear plant in northeastern Japan following Friday's major earthquake, Kyodo news agency said.

Prior to the Kyodo report, the company had said it had not received information on whether there had been any problems at the nuclear power plant after the disaster.

Separately, Fukushima Prefecture, the site of a Tokyo Electric Power (9501.T) nuclear power plant, said on Friday the plant's reactor cooling system was functioning, denying an earlier report that it was malfunctioning.

Japanese media reported that the government had decided to declare a nuclear power emergency situation, which occurs if there is confirmation of radioactivity leaks from a nuclear power plant or a reactor cooling system breaks down. (Reporting by Chikako Mogi and Risa Maeda; Editing by Edmund Klamann)