Good thoughts toward Japan...

[seawasp]

... and anyone else potentially in the way of the tsunami. Preliminary reports seem about as good, or as little bad, as one could hope for with an 8.9 quake.

Comments

[kengr]

I've been listening since the 11 pm news here (which as only about half an hour after the quake).

See my LJ for a rally odd effect of modern connectivity with regards to this.

Tsunami is expected to hit coast here around 7:15 local time. That's less than 3 hours.

Evacuation is recommended on Oregon coast, but they are waiting for the tsunami to hit Hawaii so they'll have better data before sending out the actual messages.

A lot of folks have been leaving coast areas for the last several hours.

I'm glad some friends up in Washington no longer live in the house that was only about 20 feet above sea level (and less than a mile from the estuary they live on). They now live on a hill several hundred feet above sea level.

Not that this tsunami is gonna be high enough to bother even their old place.

I'm probably gonna crash after I hear the reports from Hawaii.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Someone on my FL said that the tsunami had just hit Hawaii with 500 mph force and someone else said the beaches here are closed because it's supposed to hit here in 3 hours. I know the force is diminished, but I have to wonder what kind of waves we'll see.

Such devestation in Japan.

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

Something like this is really horrible to have happen. And you get a real feel for it from the odd stories you encounter along the way. I worry about the train that never arrived. Apparently it left one station and never arrived at the next, this during the time the tsunami hit.

Thankfully Japan has invested in earthquake resisting their buildings given the almost continuous 6+ aftershocks they have been getting.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

The quake is bad enough but the video shots of the tsunami are horrendous - a 30 foot high wall of water moving at hundreds of kph. There's one shot of it approaching a road, sideways on and there are two cars moving. One keeps going and moves out of shot, but from the direction it's heading there's no way that it's going to get clear of the water. The other stops and turns so it's backwards on to the approaching wall of water which by now is thin mud carrying with it the remains of houses, cars, boats and industrian units not to mention people, animals, rocks, trees and accumulated debris.