huge earthquake in japan — Higher Ground 4x4

Mar 11, 2011 02:28 PM #1

8.9 on the scale with lots of 6-7.0 aftershocks

tsunami already hit japan and west coast of US and hawaii is under tsunmai warning

also reports of cooling system failure at one of the nuke plants in japan

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/11/video-massive-quake-hits-japan-tsunami-alerts-throughout-pacific/

Mar 11, 2011 03:00 PM #2

Mar 11, 2011 03:01 PM #3

Mar 12, 2011 07:32 PM #4

Mar 14, 2011 04:49 PM #5

new video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12725646

Mar 14, 2011 04:52 PM #6

the nuke plants are really getting scary with the explosions. in this video you can see the building falling after the explosion

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/second-plant-explosion-24515761

Mar 14, 2011 04:54 PM #7

one more

watch the full thing, crazy to see the huge buildings picked up and float away

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Mar 14, 2011 05:10 PM #8

Holy Cow man
Thanks for posting all that too. You are my news source

Mar 14, 2011 08:11 PM #9

just for the heck of it i went to geigercounter.com and saw this message

Order Update: Due to the disaster in Japan, orders for Geiger Counters have out-stripped our supply. We estimate that on Tuesday, we will have a better idea of availability and ship dates. As to past and future orders, we will fill them generally in the order in which they were placed. You may still place orders, and they will be filled after our backorders are met. As it stands, we are sold out of all Pocket models, but still have plenty of Radiation Network Software. We also have some of the larger, traditional Probe Geiger Counters. We are sorry for the delay, and will appreciate your patience. You can phone or email us on Tuesday as to a status of your order. Thank you.

Lead times are getting pretty far out - can't be more specific yet

Mar 15, 2011 02:36 AM #10

Mar 15, 2011 02:46 AM #11

uhhh things arent going well at those nuke plants either

from hotair.com

Update: Abandon ship.

They initially suggested that the damage was limited and that emergency operations aimed at cooling the nuclear fuel at three stricken reactors with seawater would continue. But industry executives said that in fact the situation had spiraled out of control and that all plant workers needed to leave the plant to avoid excessive exposure to radioactive leaks.

If all workers do in fact leave the plant, the nuclear fuel in all three reactors is likely to melt down, which would lead to wholesale releases of radioactive material — by far the largest accident of its kind since the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago…

“It’s way past Three Mile Island already,” said Frank von Hippel, a physicist and professor at Princeton. “The biggest risk now is that the core really melts down and you have a steam explosion.”

A Japanese cabinet minister confirms that part of the containment vessel itself in reactor number two has been damaged. Meanwhile, if you can believe it, a fourth reactor is now on fire and radiation levels have risen to the point where, in the vicinity of the plant, they’re actually a threat to human health. Which, of course, is another major problem since there are only so many workers with the know-how to perform the necessary tasks. Even if they’re willing to be rotated in or out, there may not be enough of them to staff the rotations.

And guess what? Even if a meltdown is averted — which now seems unlikely — the worst may be yet to come:

Even as workers race to prevent the radioactive cores of the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan from melting down, concerns are growing that nearby pools holding spent fuel rods could pose an even greater danger…

The threat is that the hot fuel will boil away the cooling water and catch fire, spreading radioactive materials far and wide in dangerous clouds…

The pools are a worry at the stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant because at least two of the three have lost their roofs in explosions, exposing the spent fuel pools to the atmosphere. By contrast, reactors have strong containment vessels that stand a better chance of bottling up radiation from a meltdown of the fuel in the reactor core.

It would take days or weeks for the spent rods to boil off so there’s time to deal with this problem if workers can get back into the plant. But if they can’t due to radioactivity — what then?

A nuclear engineer tells the Times that spent rods catching fire would actually be worse than a meltdown. If I’m understanding it correctly, it would be the equivalent of a giant dirty bomb going off.

Mar 15, 2011 01:42 PM #12

http://www.radiationnetwork.com/RadiationNetwork.htm
this is a link that updates radaition levels in the states every three mins.

Mar 15, 2011 02:48 PM #13

:O

brotobeast wrote:http://www.radiationnetwork.com/RadiationNetwork.htm
this is a link that updates radaition levels in the states every three mins.

hmmmmm this site was working fine and updating and now it went down????????????:O

Mar 15, 2011 05:34 PM #14

brotobeast wrote::O

hmmmmm this site was working fine and updating and now it went down????????????:O

http://radiationnetwork.com/ this link is working

Mar 16, 2011 04:53 PM #15

So pretty much every video you see with cars driving away... those people are dead?
I guess you'd actually have more chance for staying alive if you were in the vehicle if you could stay in them even though it'd be like being inside a washing machine instead of out of it being crushed by everything sharp/heavy grinding together.

The crack video is interesting by itself but not paired with the water sweeping footage:
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Mar 19, 2011 12:24 AM #16

audio of quake and another video
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110318/ts_yblog_thelookout/listen-to-japans-massive-quake

Mar 19, 2011 06:58 AM #17

^^^wow where did those buildings go?

Just in time:
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Mar 22, 2011 02:51 AM #18

This Japanese video helped me better understand the nuclear problem
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Mar 23, 2011 01:02 PM #19

brotobeast wrote:http://radiationnetwork.com/ this link is working

checking levels this morning and they are ranging 25 to30 when it has 15-18 in morning heard on news they had detected the isotop from japan in the valley and levels are showing it up and down the west coast. zombie plans in place yet????

Mar 28, 2011 09:05 PM #20