<p>Tsunami’s are hard to protect against–all you can do is get to higher ground & wait it out. The ocean is extremely powerful! </p>
<p>Prayers to Japan!</p>
<p>At times like this, I wish I had cable.</p>
<p>BB–they’ve been having multiple aftershocks of 6 to 7. How is this one different?</p>
<p>menloparkmom…in the link I provided in post #51…mentions nearly 88,000 missing.
After seeing those horrible videos of that tsunami, I can believe it.</p>
<p>I just saw on the news that local Xavier students are reported safe in Japan where they were studying for a semester.</p>
<p>A friend’s husband is safe…he is there on business. Lots of people locally work for P & G and go to Japan (and other countries) for a couple weeks or even a period of years. The globe is shrinking.</p>
<p>mommusic–this new quake was on a different fault. A large quake CAN trigger quakes on other faults .This 8.9 will generate aftershocks for years.</p>
<p>Central Japan is the mountainous part–hopefully there won’t be much damage there and HOPEFULLY no tsumanis from that.</p>
<p>The 6.6 earthquake that BunsenBurner just reported is not offshore like the majority of the aftershocks. It is considered a separate 6 mile deep earthquake in CENTRAL Japan.</p>
<p>This is just posted on CNN and Yahoo as breaking news, but so far I have not seen any updates. The epicenter was in a different spot - northwest. I just read that Russia is expecting a series of earthquakes to hit Kamchatka Penninsula and the Kuril Islands in the next several months.</p>
<p>BBC reporting 350 deaths so far, and “hundreds” more missing. The 88000 may have been an exaggeration…I hope.
More frightening pictures and videos.</p>
<p>[BBC</a> News - Home](<a href=“http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/]BBC”>Home - BBC News)</p>
<p>^
I can’t imagine just from watching footage how there would only be 350 deaths so far, unless that is just the number of bodies that have been retrieved. There is no telling what the final tally will be, and I would think it would be much more than the 88,000.</p>
<p>A crowded passenger train was swept off its tracks and is now “unaccounted for”. These victims are listed as missing. With stories like this rolling in, over 88,000 seems more than likely.</p>
<p>"Seismologists at the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, have just revised their calculations regarding the magnitude of today’s quake. They now say it was magnitude 9.0. "</p>
<p>Explanation of a “splay fault”</p>
<p>[Short</a> Sharp Science: Japan’s quake updated to magnitude 9.0](<a href=“http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/03/powerful-japan-quake-sparks-ts.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news]Short”>http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/03/powerful-japan-quake-sparks-ts.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news)</p>
<p>Yes, I think they have only been able to count bodies reported recovered to date. Like other mega-disasters, it will be a long time to get an exact toll I suspect. I am sure there will be huge #s of deaths all told.</p>
<p>^ I think so too.
I remember the first estimates with the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia/Thailand. We all know how that turned out.</p>
<p>88,000 dead would make this one of the most deadly tsunamis ever. The worst typically have death tolls of 20-30,000 (the 2004 tsunami was a really big exception). I would hope the death toll doesn’t end up anywhere near that.</p>
<p>Ongoing live coverage
[BBC</a> News - Japan earthquake](<a href=“http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698]BBC”>BBC News - LIVE: Osama Bin Laden dead)</p>
<p>A dam ruptured and has swept away houses.
A ***ushima nuclear plant is building up pressure.
Radioactive gas is being released from another.</p>
<p>I just heard on BBC that Sendai has more than a million people, and that the tsunami reached 10 kilometers in…</p>
<p>That makes have a population density similar to Honolulu, which is why I would expect a pretty high death toll. Yikes!</p>
<p>People have been repeatedly warned to stay away from the coast, yet some apparently thought that they were unsinkable:</p>
<p>[Tsunami</a> sweeps 5 to sea, rips out Calif. docks - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_re_us/us_japan_earthquake_pacific]Tsunami”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_re_us/us_japan_earthquake_pacific)</p>