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Massive earthquakes and tsunami hit Japan
Topic Started: Mar 11 2011, 08:02 AM (1,906 Views)
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Japanese volcano erupts

A volcano in southwestern Japan erupted Sunday after nearly two weeks of relative silence, sending ash and rocks up to four kilometres (two and a half miles) into the air, a local official says.

It was not immediately clear if the eruption was a direct result of the massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked northern areas Friday, unleashing a fierce tsunami and sparking fears that more than 10,000 may have been killed.

The 1,421-metre (4,689-feet) Shinmoedake volcano in the Kirishima range saw its first major eruption for 52 years in January. There had not been any major activity at the site since March 1.

Authorities have maintained a volcano warning at a level of three out of five, restricting access to the entire mountain.

In April last year, the eruption of the Eyjafjoell volcano in Iceland dispersed a vast cloud of ash, triggering a huge shutdown of airspace that affected more than 100,000 flights and eight million passengers.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article965229.ece/Japanese-volcano-erupts
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I want to donate some moey - does anyone know the best way / organisation? I was thinking Red Cross?
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/

Top right corner. Takes seconds.
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Go on to iTunes and click on the American Red Cross square n the middle of the front page, and just click on the amount you want to donate, easy as can be.
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thanks guys!
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The Scariest Earthquake Is Yet to Come

The tsunami that struck Japan was the third in a series of events that now put California at risk. :drama:

All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent—which can be withdrawn at any time.

For hundreds, maybe for thousands of people, this consent was withdrawn with shocking suddenness—all geological events are sudden, and all are unexpected if not necessarily entirely unanticipated—at 2:46 on this past clear, cool spring Friday afternoon. One moment all were going about their quotidian business—in offices, on trains, in rice fields, in stores, in schools, in warehouses, in shrines—and then the ground began to shake. At first, the shock was merely a much stronger and longer version of the temblors to which most Japanese are well accustomed. There came a stunned silence, as there always does. But then, the difference: a few minutes later a low rumble from the east, and in a horrifying replay of the Indian Ocean tragedy of just some six years before, the imagery of which is still hauntingly in all the world’s mind, the coastal waters off the northern Honshu vanished, sucked mysteriously out to sea.

The rumbling continued, people then began to spy a ragged white line on the horizon, and, with unimaginable ferocity, the line became visible as a wall of waves sweeping back inshore at immense speed and at great height. Just seconds later and these Pacific Ocean waters hit the Japanese seawalls, surmounted them with careless ease, and began to claw across the land beyond in what would become a dispassionate and detached orgy of utter destruction.

We all now know, and have for 50 years, that geography is the ultimate reason behind the disaster. Japan is at the junction of a web of tectonic-plate boundaries that make it more peculiarly vulnerable to ground-shaking episodes than almost anywhere else—and it is a measure of Japanese engineering ingenuity, of social cohesion, of the ready acceptance of authority and the imposition of necessary discipline that allows so many to survive these all-too-frequent displays of tectonic power.

But geography is not the only factor in this particular and acutely dreadful event. Topography played an especially tragic role in the story, too—for it is an axiom known to all those who dwell by high-tsunami-risk coastlines that when the sea sucks back, you run: you run inland and, if at all possible, you run uphill. But in this corner of northeast Japan, with its wide plains of rice meadows and ideal factory sites and conveniently flat airport locations, there may well be a great deal of inland—but there is almost no uphill.

Such mountains as exist are far away, blue and distant in the west. All here is coastal plain. And so the reality is this: if a monstrous wave is chasing you inland at the speed of a jetliner, and if the flat topography all around denies you any chance of sprinting to a hilltop to try to escape its wrath, then you can make no mistake—it will catch you, it will drown you, and its forces will pulverize you out of all recognition as a thing of utter insignificance, which of course, to a tsunami, all men and women and their creations necessarily must be.

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/13/the-scariest-earthquake-is-yet-to-come.html
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:scared: :scared: :(
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IN THE CENTRE OF A RING JUST LIKE A CIRCUS
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this one had me in tears :(

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Disney commits $2.5M to Japan relief efforts

Walt Disney Co. will donate $2.5 million to the American Red Cross to support the relief efforts following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

The company also said it would match up to $1 million donations by its employees and cast members to the Red Cross Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Fund and the independent organization Save the Children.

Disney’s Japan attractions, including Tokyo Disney Resort and Tokyo Disneyland, are closed indefinitely, according to its website. Disney’s Aulani resort at Ko Olina on Oahu is scheduled to open Aug. 29.

http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2011/03/16/disney-commits-25m-to-japan-relief.html
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With all the money Disney animated films have grossed in Japan you'd think they would let go of more than $2.5 million.

Did the CEO find that $2.5 million in his underwear drawer or somehting?
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Dog in Japan stays by the side of its ailing friend in the rubble :(

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It's a universal truth that dogs are man's best friend, but they're pretty darn loyal to their own as well. Case in point: this tear-inducing video, via the website Jezebel, showing a dog, shivering and disoriented, remaining loyally by the side of a stricken fellow canine amid the devastation of the Japanese tsunami.



:( :( :(
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bulgar
Mar 17 2011, 05:24 PM
Dog in Japan stays by the side of its ailing friend in the rubble :(

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It's a universal truth that dogs are man's best friend, but they're pretty darn loyal to their own as well. Case in point: this tear-inducing video, via the website Jezebel, showing a dog, shivering and disoriented, remaining loyally by the side of a stricken fellow canine amid the devastation of the Japanese tsunami.



:( :( :(
this is just heartbreaking
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Mar 18 2011, 01:26 AM
bulgar
Mar 17 2011, 05:24 PM
Dog in Japan stays by the side of its ailing friend in the rubble :(

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It's a universal truth that dogs are man's best friend, but they're pretty darn loyal to their own as well. Case in point: this tear-inducing video, via the website Jezebel, showing a dog, shivering and disoriented, remaining loyally by the side of a stricken fellow canine amid the devastation of the Japanese tsunami.



:( :( :(
this is just heartbreaking
heartbreaking indeed!

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UPDATE:

The dogs were picked up after the video was filmed, and are in the care of a local shelter.
:clap: Updates and pics will be here in the coming days: http://www.facebook.com/lifewithdogs

"Kenn Sakurai, who is the president of a Japanese pet food company who is helping with the rescue of animals, reports on Facebook that the two dogs have been rescued:

“We have already got these dogs … One is staying at the vet clinic and the brown and white one is at the shelter,” he wrote."
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I couldn't even bring myself to look at the video, but I'm relieved to hear they're being cared for at least.
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I think they put one of the dogs down.
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really? :(
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Yeah. That one dog was really sick. I guess they felt that it was better to put it out of its misery.
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Japanese Government protests Herald Tribune cartoon

Japan Probe is reporting that the Japanese Consulate in New York has officially complained to the International Herald Tribune after the newspaper printed the following comic:

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“The consulate complained that it was “regrettable” to see such a comic, given the fact that the safety of Japanese food exports is being verified by customs officials in both Japan and America.”
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maybe it's satire on the West's hysteria. calm down nips :lol2:
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Apr 24 2011, 12:59 PM
maybe it's satire on the West's hysteria. calm down nips :lol2:
exactly.
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