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Japanese news reporting during disaster scenarios is something to behold. The screen is filled with data and blinking like a Bloomberg Terminal.
My favorite is the NHK reporters standing in the middle of absolutely nowhere with their NHK helmets. No matter what the event, there is a reporter wearing a helmet.
I guess I will have to sleep with a big wooden log.
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Japanese news reporting during disaster scenarios is something to behold. The screen is filled with data and blinking like a Bloomberg Terminal.
To be fair, most of Japanese TV is like that. I always joke that the primary reason they developed HD TV was to be able to cram more text in every corner xD
But then again, take a stroll around a shop-laden street in Japan and you'll see the exact same thing. They just like it that way.
Funny thing is how for interior design they do a full 180 and typically go very minimalistic.
Has anyone heard how bad it was in Petropovlosk? USGS estimates "severe" shaking with the possibility of moderate to heavy damage and a chance of fatalities. They have had quite a swarm of quakes there over the last couple of weeks, including one that was M7+ around the 20th.
It's basically immune to tsunamis as it's protected by a bay with narrow entrance that extinguishes the waves, also most of the city is raised at least 10m above the sea.
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To be fair, most of Japanese TV is like that. I always joke that the primary reason they developed HD TV was to be able to cram more text in every corner xD
haha, makes a lot of sense!. But then again, take a stroll around a shop-laden street in Japan and you'll see the exact same thing. They just like it that way. Funny thing is how for interior design they do a full 180 and typically go very minimalistic.
Only if they are well to do. Most family houses in Japan are crammed full of stuff with very little "design".
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From videos online so far, it seems the strength of the quake didn't translate to massive lateral movement. There seemed to be lots of intense P-wave wiggling and bumping rather than large S-wave swings back and forth. The big Japan quake was one of those, where you saw offices being slid back and forth and everything flying off shelves. Not sure what that means for the tsunami - but so far it seems less intense than…
Japan uses a scale that measures the movement[0]. Of course depending on where you are the result changes, but it's a lot more usable for the practical "how much shaking will be involved here/was involved here". [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency_se...
Intensity: 7
Category: Brutal
Description: Standing or moving is only possible by crawling. People may be thrown through the air.
Japan forecasting tsunamis up to 3m across basically the entire eastern coast. First waves will hit within 10 minutes. https://www.nhk.or.jp/kishou-saigai/tsunami/ https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/live/ (live, Japanese) https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/ (live, English) The east coast is also where the vast majority of Japan's population lives, and was previously hit by the 2011 tsunami (Fukushima and all that). We'…
Japanese news reporting during disaster scenarios is something to behold. The screen is filled with data and blinking like a Bloomberg Terminal.
Eg. old people without smartphones or someone just turning their TV on, seeing big letter "Tsunami evacuate" with map and other information. You instantly know the most important information and you can act on it.