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I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody affected by the earthquake but your comment made me remember this: http://xkcd.com/723/
I actually first heard about this earthquake on Twitter (all eyewitness reports, no second hand information). I immediately checked all news sites I could think of (European, US) but none were yet reporting on it.
Also 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.
Probably the same reason Californians talk about the entire state no matter where the quake hits the state. Also, Al Jazeera is reporting 4+ million homes are without power in Tokyo.
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No, it is not. From the HN guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. And unlike cosmok, I do mind it, because this type of news is slowly turning HN into something it shouldn't be. There's a reason for this particu…
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Edit: I mean this in earnest, we can and should help.
"At 11:01 pm we just had a 4.6 earthquake on the big island"
There's also increased seismic activity on some of the volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest (far left link on each row shows latest activity):
http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/welcome.html
I'm not a seismologist so I have no idea if that's as gnarly as it looks.
I just talked to my parents in Hawaii, there's a tsunami warning for 3 am HST. I reminded my dad to sandbag the doors of his restaurant in Waikiki (Vit's Hawaiian Steakhouse) before he closes for the night. It's just outside of the "tsunami zone" in Waikiki, so I know my dad will probably be working until the police make him evacuate. He did that on the last tsunami warning, and Vit's was pretty much the only restaur…
On a side note, twitter and fb feeds are going off right now.