Powerful earthquakes hit Japan

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  1. TwilightAngel

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    TwilightAngel, Mar 11, 2011
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    Wow thats one crazy earthquake, you see in the video in the first link all the buildings and cars floating in the water like toys or lego bricks in a big sea of water.

    Sorry to anyone that had Family in Japan

    Side Note: Nooooooo! there goes my anime and anime related goods.

    I bet the whales and dolphins are behind the tsunami.
     
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    More importantly, the denim!

    I can't believe how powerful mother nature is sometimes. That is really unfortunate. But, them be the risks living so close to the ocean.
     
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    ya its bad int hat are but frm what I know the body count will get up to like 500+
     
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    That's insane, 8.9 magnitude. The worst earthquake in Japan's history!
     
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    i thin the last known big one was like what 150 yrs ago
     
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    Kobe around 15-20 years ago.
     
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    the roof has blown off one of the reactors..I imagine its a meltdown ..they have not called it that..yet.

    the other reactor is still not under control..that one too will blow.
     
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    Meltdown unlikely. Seems it was a hydrogen explosion or the smoke would be highly radioactive, which it apparently isn't.
     
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    Yeah the power of the elements is an amazing thing. Sometimes for the better, sadly it can also be for the worse.
     
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    You don't know that for sure.
     
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  12. TwilightAngel

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    It was in one of the reports that the last known strong one was like 100+ yrs ago, Not to sure how far ago it was but its what they say
     
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    Japan had an earth quake in 1923, it was 7.9 and killed over 140 000 people.
     
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