lunarverse

It was the fifth strongest since 1900.

McLeodGanja

The system they have for keeping it cool is failing for some reason is all I know. So I am guessing it could explode if they don't fire the power up soon. Just said on the BBC that about 2-300 bodies have washed up somewhere.

Oz!

the problem is that one of teh cooling systems have failed ....... they can't get electricity to power it

ThePepsiSyndrome

I was watching the first wave move across Japan live last night also. The people in the building that were being destroyed had no time to get away. The final death toll will probably be more than I can wrap my mind around.

Is this supposed to be funny? I'm not too sure, I slept very little last night.

Shirahime

Well from what I heard on the news in regards to the Nuclear Power Station that's having problems, is that they've managed to get one of the two naff reactors "under control." I highly doubt this for some reason. If it all isn't sorted, we may have another Chernobyl on our hands. -_-

I've also stopped freaking out so much about me boyfriend's family in Hawaii and also him in San Francisco.

TheMadcapSyd

No, there won't be, don't even say that because it makes people who don't know anything more about nuclear power than OMG ATOMS start freaking out. Chernobyl was a terrible design that would've never been legal in any western nation, for one thing it has a positive temperature coefficient which meant in an extremely unlikely chain of events that the core could reach the energy of dynamite and explode(Chernobyl wasn't a nuclear reaction) but it didn't even have a containment building.

Chernobyl by the laws of physics can't happen in any nation that's not the former Soviet Union. A meltdown is not a Chernobyl, it's exactly what it sounds like, when the nuclear material loses it's cooling systems it becomes hot enough that it begins to melt. And frankly in the very unlikely case all backup systems fail and there is a meltdown, I don't care, again this isn't the Soviet Union, we containment buildings in the west(well technically east for Japan), with several layers of protection, even if the core melted down it'd still have to go through a ridiculous amount of layers before even reaching the ground.

PB_Smith

Pretty amazing coincidence, not much more. Problem is she's putting the horse before the cart.
astrophysicist guy said Quake caused Earth axis shift, she thinks a comet caused the shift and thereby the quakes. She needs to go back and watch that news interview again.

But yeah, I'm sure she is bouncing of the walls now screaming "SEE, I TOLD YA!!!"

Shirahime

Yeah I been reading up on it since I got back home from work.

Skip

Yes, the Ring of Fire is very active right now. Two earthquakes in Chile, two earthquakes in New Zealand, now this in Japan all in a relatively short period. Looks like the entire ring has started to shift. And if you look at the list of earthquakes in Japan you'll know it's still going on, with the quakes moving around the ring.

Ever since the big Chile quake I've been looking for signs of other activity along the Pacific ring and there has been plenty as you can see!

antithesis

This is so sad and it is also frightening since it shows us that nature really is in charge here.

I will be praying for those affected and also praying that the tsunami on the west coast where I am is not so bad and since my whole family is in Hawaii I hope they are ok as well.