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8.9 earthquake hits Japan
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#152It was crazy scary, and I was all the way down in Nagoya. There doesn't seem to be too much damage in Miyagi (where the earthquake was) but some fires broke out apparently. Luckily, it seemed to be a long, hard earthquake rather than a short hard earthquake, which means that buildings are able to withstand the shaking better. The shaking went on for about 3 minutes here, and there were some after shocks that lasted f…
It's probably also deep. Deep earthquakes do less damage. But still, 8.9, that's almost 100 times bigger than a 7.
Closer to 80 times stronger than a hundred, but yeah definitely deep.
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#153The Tsunamis caused by this that might hit Taiwan etc. can be huge (5 to 10 meters). Or then just 10 cm high. How ever it's moving now 800km an hour. The destruction is terrible ( http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhj2ge_violent-seisme-d-une... ) I cannot explain in written how sorry I feel for the people living in the area.
Good news! Waves did not cause any damage to persons or property in Philippines.
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#154I don't know if it's of use for anyone here, but Google has set up a Crisis Response page:
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#155Maebashi, Gunma here. I was on the 10th floor of city hall when it happened and bookcases were falling all over; we were trying to hold them up and not really getting how serious it was. That was a few hours ago and we're still getting periodic aftershocks. No sea here, so we don't have to worry about tsunami, luckily. I was fine during the quake itself and now I'm having an attack of the nerves; it still feels like…
I hope you don't try and hold up book-cases in the future (not sure how large they are). But during an earthquake, they could easily crush you.
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#156Maebashi, Gunma here. I was on the 10th floor of city hall when it happened and bookcases were falling all over; we were trying to hold them up and not really getting how serious it was. That was a few hours ago and we're still getting periodic aftershocks. No sea here, so we don't have to worry about tsunami, luckily. I was fine during the quake itself and now I'm having an attack of the nerves; it still feels like…
I hope you don't try and hold up book-cases in the future (not sure how large they are). But during an earthquake, they could easily crush you.
Not big ones -- not even over my shoulders. Just full; we were trying to keep the contents from falling all over.
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#157Maebashi, Gunma here. I was on the 10th floor of city hall when it happened and bookcases were falling all over; we were trying to hold them up and not really getting how serious it was. That was a few hours ago and we're still getting periodic aftershocks. No sea here, so we don't have to worry about tsunami, luckily. I was fine during the quake itself and now I'm having an attack of the nerves; it still feels like…
I'm on au and getting mail on my cell phone in random batches; if I force a mail check, it'll give me a few messages, but they don't seem to be pushing e-mail notifications. I guess this is their way of dealing with the flood of mail.
An interesting anecdote: the only provider that ISN'T forwarding/storing my messages properly is Softbank. It worried me until I noticed, but all e-mails I'm trying to send to friends with Softbank phones are just bouncing.
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#158Also I found this interesting: > A massive 8.8 magnitude quake hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, shaking buildings in the capital Tokyo > Why would you talk about the earthquake in Tokyo, when it happened in Miyagi? Tokyo only got hit with a 3 or 4. [EDIT: updated to 5 JMS. Tokyo got hit pretty hard too] The actual earthquake was around 240 miles away. That's the same distance from New York to Boston.
It was felt by most of the population of Japan. And there was actual damage done in Tokyo.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would like to think that HN had some compassion for their fellow users (HN has a lot of Tokyo based startups/hackers), not to mention humans in general. In a scenario like this, who gives a fuck if it's off topic? And for the record, I saw the story here first, so I am thankful for that.
There are plenty of sites for general news. HN is not one of them. The reason you saw it here first is because somebody posted it here despite what the guidelines say, and you happened to come at the right moment, before you checked other news sites you usually do. The fact that you saw it here first does not change the fact that the article is, according to guidelines, off-topic. Oh, and FYI, not posting this articl…
I find it strange that you and others question whether this article should be on HN - the fact you and others are commenting must mean that the topic grabbed you enough for you to want to read and comment on what people are saying on the subject.
Also the fact that the post has over 300 points and is comfortably the most talked about thing within the community is proof enough that topics like this should be allowed to remain within HN
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
So since most of y'all understand American geography better than Japanese geography: My friends in Osaka (San Fran) felt it. I live in Ogaki (Kansas). There was a mild panic in the mall, and our trains stopped for a few minutes. Folks in Tokyo are largely shaken but not terribly affected (Boston/DC ish). Miyagi/etc (Maine-ish) got a wee bit whacked by a tsunami. They had a few minutes of warning. Reports will come in…
Osaka is kind of cool but gets a bit...weird...at times, there isn't much to speak of in Ogaki, and Miyagi is a fishing town?
Miyagi is a prefecture. Like a state or province.