8.9 Earthquake has struck Japan

It is still preliminary, I will be curious to see where it settles after review.

The fires are going to be causing a lot of damage beyond the massive tsunami damage already shown.
 
"Any footage of the wave as it comes up on the shore? As in, you can see it coming right out of the ocean? "

Yes, there is news chopper footage of one of the smaller waves moving onshore, and also numerous large waves full of debris already onshore. FOX CNN and MSNBC are rotating through these videos.
 
Watching this I cannot help but think that the casualties are going to be in the thousands or even tens of thousands. I know Japan is better prepared than almost any other place, but the epicenter was I think they said 10 miles offshore. With as fast as a tsunami can travel, that gave them mere seconds in some places, and just a very few minutes in others. I hope I'm wrong, very wrong. But this does not look good at all for the people near the coast.
 
The quake was about 5-15 minutes(tsunami time) from the bulk of the population effected. Enough warning for some, but not for all. A quick check of google maps shows some of those towns near Sendai are not particularly close to elevated terrain. Those massive walls of debris that probably remind us all of large hurricane surge damage will contain lots of bodies.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake/c0001xgp/
 
Im shocked as I have missed everything up until now. We are 20 mins away from the first wave impacting Hawaii. Truly amazing footage coming out of Japan right now. We went a couple of months without a 7.0 or greater earthquake as we had a very active swarm in Dec and early Jan. This is one we will get to digest for a while. One can only think that there are massive casualties. HEre we go with the first waves to hit the USA.
 
I'm blown away that there's a giant wave, carrying things that are on fire... those things shouldn't ever mix. Have there been any estimates at fatalities yet? I haven't seen any mention.
 
Jordan Hartley said:
Im shocked as I have missed everything up until now.
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USGS has a great email service that sends emails for significant quakes worldwide.

History Channel had a good show called "Mega Quake" I think. From what I remember an 8.9 in Japan is at or above their theoretical max magnitude.
 
The AP is circulating a model-generated wave height map from the PTWC, but their stubborn habit of only offering images in stupidly small sizes prevents me from actually reading it. Does anyone have a link to this?
 
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