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I guess we can make a thread about it in case something else bad happens in Hawaii or CA.

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I just spoke to a friend from Tokyo, and she has been able to talk to her family.  Of course the tsunami wasn't a problem for Tokyo, but the earthquake sure was.  All public transportation is shut down.  Communications are almost completely shut down.  There's structural damage all over the place; she was able to reach her mother and she is fine, but she can't get out of her house because all the door frames were warped and she can't get the doors open.

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@1:37: This house, it is both ON FIRE and FLOATING AWAY at the same time.

@2:00: I think that truck was still moving when it comes into frame.

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BBC Live feed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

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Heard from a family on a visit in California and the boats to Alcatraz and the island were closed all day.
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It seems like there is an increase in tsunami or maybe just the coverage but until the big one several years ago while I had heard of the term I never remember any stories of them happening. Now there seems to be damage from them all the time.

Perhaps the southeast asia one was so damaging that it has everyone on edge but I just don't remember ever hearing about them.
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They happen all the time.  So much so that there's all these early warning systems that have been put in place all around the Pacific.  Japanese kids grow up learning about them like kids in Kansas learn about tornadoes.  Although this was a pretty big one, as was the one in 2004.  But the main difference is the world has gotten a WHOLE lot smaller in the last 15 years.

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It seems like there is an increase in tsunami or maybe just the coverage but until the big one several years ago while I had heard of the term I never remember any stories of them happening. Now there seems to be damage from them all the time.

Perhaps the southeast asia one was so damaging that it has everyone on edge but I just don't remember ever hearing about them.

It's because we used to call them "tidal waves"
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I would agree with the whole "world is getting smaller" idea if it wasn't for the obvious answer which is SUPER MOON!
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This is not good.

Two Japanese nuclear plants lose cooling ability.
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I'm half expecting Godzilla to show up and start tearing ass.

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I'm half expecting Godzilla to show up and start tearing ass.

I was having Godzilla thoughts this morning when watching that tsunami live.

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It seems like there is an increase in tsunami or maybe just the coverage but until the big one several years ago while I had heard of the term I never remember any stories of them happening. Now there seems to be damage from them all the time.

Perhaps the southeast asia one was so damaging that it has everyone on edge but I just don't remember ever hearing about them.

It's because we used to call them "tidal waves"
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?c....thing=3

I was showing my 5-year-old video footage of the earthquake/tsunami tonight, explaining to him what happened.  He was asking about the "slow" surge of water across the landscape, full of cars and houses, and I explained it was a tsunami and it was because the earthquake happened out at sea, etc.

He said, "Oh, you mean a tidal wave?"

No joke.  No idea where he learned that.

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I was having Godzilla thoughts this morning when watching that tsunami live.


While watching coverage I was thinking both about Godzilla and "how will they blame this on Bush or global warming?"

I predict somebody is already working on a conspiracy theory website showing Godzilla as the real culprit. It'll be a parody of the 9/11 conspiracy sites.
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Who did Japan piss off?

Japan actually moved 13 feet.
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Been watching various tsunami footage.

Are 90% of all vehicles in japan white?

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The only good thing that has come of that whole disaster is that Charley Sheen is off the news.

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Goddamnit.  No one's going to build another nuclear plant for the next fifty years now.

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No one has built one in America for at least 10 years as it is.

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