Earthquake has hit Japan

junkeR · Post by **junkeR** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:55 pm

Best of luck you guys. This is a crazy story.

brentsg · Post by **brentsg** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:03 pm

Glad everyone seems ok here at least.

TonK · Post by **TonK** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:37 pm

Glad everyone is good so far.

Keep checking in please.

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:39 pm

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:40 pm

was working from home today and was on the third floor of the house and the place rattled like crazy, some damage to goods and a family friend who was visiting fell and broke her leg in three places. But nothing serious

quite shitty waiting to get in touch with the wife who was at work. Twitter seemed to be the communication tool to use given that it was up and rocking. Sucks that the wife isn't on Twitter :/ but hey, everyone is safe so that's all good.

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:43 pm

Speechless.

I'm very glad you guys are ok. Heard the earthquake was the one of the most ferocious in history, but didn't take any lives so far. I really hope the Tsunami doesn't do more damage than it already has(taking lives).

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:56 pm

Death toll is rising pretty fast, actually. 200-300 bodies found in Miyagi alone, plus over 60 found throughout the country and a boat with 100 passengers got swept away. If less than 1,000 die it would be a miracle considering the damage.

It'd be nice if the aftershocks stopped so I can get some sleep. :/

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:57 pm

that death toll is going to go flying up - they simply have no idea how many people died in the North East yet and watching the tsunami gobble up cars , boats, houses etc like they were nothing does not fill me with hope that the current relatively low death toll will stay low

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:15 pm

NTSC-J wrote: It'd be nice if the aftershocks stopped so I can get some sleep. :/

Yes... they indeed suck. I'm dizzy as shit... and they keep coming. I'm thinking of sleeping in my helmet.

adversity1 · Post by **adversity1** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:24 pm

J, there goes our Muchi Pork fun this weekend!

Vyxx · Post by **Vyxx** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:28 pm

I woke up this morning to a Major snow storm and I thought I had it bad.

Seriously, good to see you Japan members checking in. Hopefully rancor posts soon...

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:29 pm

adversity1 wrote:J, there goes our Muchi Pork fun this weekend!

Thanks for inviting me to your gay party.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:37 pm

adversity1 wrote:J, there goes our Muchi Pork fun this weekend!

Yea the shinkansen was shut down for the day so no Tokyo for me this weekend. It'll be another week before the arcade in Nakano gets around to installing Pork anyways. :/

GP, you're always welcome. English-speakers only, though.

My girlfriend is safe at least and sent me pictures of her apartment. Absolutely trashed, good thing she wasn't home.

xris · Post by **xris** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:45 pm

The news of this is just terrible. I hope that all of the people are safe, along with their families, and friends. My heart goes out to anyone that is struggling with this. I hope that it will subside as soon as poosible, and those in need of help get it as soon as possible.

njiska · Post by **njiska** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:53 pm

Vyxx wrote:I woke up this morning to a Major snow storm and I thought I had it bad.

Seriously, good to see you Japan members checking in. Hopefully rancor posts soon...

Seconded. This is just insane news. Need to call a few friends in japan now and make sure they're alright.

Bloodreign · Post by **Bloodreign** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:58 pm

From the video I've managed to see, things look pretty bleak, but glad to see members living out in Japan checking in and letting us know they are ok. I swore I read that a couple days ago a 7.2 hit off the coast around Honshou, this 8.9 now makes that seem much smaller than when my eyes bugged on that 7.2.

Heartwork · Post by **Heartwork** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:04 pm

Checked in with the couple people I know over there, they're alright.

Hope all you shmuppers and your friends and family stay safe over there.

cmonig · Post by **cmonig** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:05 pm

An unthinkable catastrophe!
The Earthquake is 8000 times stronger than the one that hit Christchurch in NZ recently.
I hope most people in the area are unharmed.
And hopefully the Radioactivity of those malfunctioning power plants can be contained.

Edwards80 · Post by **Edwards80** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:09 pm

Friend of mine lives near tokyo but is fine apart from being a bit sea-sick. The building was shaking for 45mins apparently.

He said local info there seems to suggest 88000 missing

Pretty dire news by any standards.

Snake · Post by **Snake** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:55 pm

Biggest quake in a century. Good luck and hang in there, Japan.

ZOM · Post by **ZOM** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:06 pm

Edwards80 wrote:He said local info there seems to suggest 88000 missing

Man this is crazy.

t0yrobo · Post by **t0yrobo** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:15 pm

I heard the news while I was out last night, a 8.9 is some serious shit. I guess it's lucky that at least it happened during the day so people could be somewhat prepared, but still not much can stop a 6 meter wave. Best wishes to everyone over there.

gct · Post by **gct** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:55 pm

That is some huge damage from the footage I saw. I can't even say I hope people are OK, the ones who lost their homes and families are obviously not, I don't know how a city and its people can recover from this.

My heart goes out to all those affected by this disaster.

louisg · Post by **louisg** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:35 pm

I live a few thousand miles away, over in San Francisco. woke up this morning, went for a jog, and noticed that the cops were outside. I asked what was up, and they said it was a tsunami warning! Still, I had no idea what the magnitude was of the situation. Getting back in, I was sleepily reading the news and read about the 8.9 earthquake.

That's when I decided to not stick around

(I don't think the waves did much of anything in SF though)

Anyway, pretty terrible. I hope all the folks on this forum who are over there, or in any of the islands in the Pacific, are ok.

Obiwanshinobi · Post by **Obiwanshinobi** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 6:53 pm

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 comes to mind. Quite a mess of a situation.

Evilmaxwar · Post by **Evilmaxwar** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 6:56 pm

You gotta give credits to the Japaneses engineers, pretty much all the buildings are still standing. If anything that strong was to hit here where i live, the entire city would be leveled

. Also folks over there seem to be reacting in a calm and orderly way, they deserve much praise for the way they handle this.

I sure picked the right time when ordering 150$ of doujins from Rancor Yesterday... Well anyway thats just a few games, hope hes allright :\

greg · Post by **greg** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:13 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:Thanks for inviting me to your gay party.

You're invited to our gay party in Tokyo next month, GP. Read the other thread.

Anyhow, for everyone stuck at work and don't have access to a TV, CNN has live streaming of NHK here:
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live ... am3&hpt=T1

greg · Post by **greg** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:18 pm

greg wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:Thanks for inviting me to your gay party.
You're invited to our gay party in Tokyo next month, GP. Read the other thread.

Anyhow, for everyone stuck at work and don't have access to a TV, CNN has live streaming of NHK here:
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live ... am3&hpt=T1

EDIT:
Crap, Niigata, Nagano, and Gunma ken are getting warnings. My family is in Nagano, so is NTSC-J. Give us an update when you can.

StoofooEsq · Post by **StoofooEsq** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:29 pm

Edwards80 wrote:He said local info there seems to suggest 88000 missing Pretty dire news by any standards.

Yeah, this is heinous from any perspective. My thoughts go out to the victims and anyone else in Japan affected by this.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:35 pm

Just got woken up at 4 AM with another good shaking and my cell phone going off with an earthquake alarm.

...and now, just as I started typing this, another one.

Can't sleep...earth'll eat eat me...

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