Quake Rocks Japan

[Don Ho]

Holy shtein!  As most of you are asleep and missed this, this quake was nasty.  8.9 hit about 2:45 PM Japan time.  Tsunami about to hit Northeast coast of Japan.  Footage is amazing.

Hawaii on a Tsunami watch and possibly west coast of US.

[Eagaholic]

Jesus, 8.9 is massive. The scale is logarithmic rather than linear so there's a huge difference between a 7.9 vs 8.9 magnitude.

[Don Ho]

Did you see the footage?  HOLY shtein!  This just released here in Hawaii:

A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD CAUSE DAMAGE ALONG
COASTLINES OF ALL ISLANDS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII. URGENT ACTION
SHOULD BE TAKEN TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY.

THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS
                     0259 AM HST FRI 11 MAR 2011

[Don Ho]

Officially a Tsunami Warning now.  Sirens to go off at midninght here.

[MDS]

oh boy

save the laptop, donald. mlb.tv subscription!!!!!

[Eagaholic]

Good luck to you, Don.

Some of Japan footage is pretty farged up. Watching the Tsunami spread looks like the earth just started to flow, like it was on a plate that was tipped. Some aerial footage showed the tsunami spreading over the land and a couple of cars on the road trying to flee just got engulfed and carried away in the debris.

[Munson]

Get to high ground on a Volcano, Tito. Good luck.

[Eagaholic]

Man, feel sorry for those people in cars trying to get away seeing the wall of water coming from a distance but helpless and finally get washed away. Refinery explosion suddenly making the screen turn white like it went nuclear in massive explosion. Looking Katrina-esque. Rare to see news footage of people actually dying right in front of your eyes.

24 foot water wall hits airport.

[Don Ho]

oh boy

save the laptop, donald. mlb.tv subscription!!!

Absolutely.  My priorities are all screwed up.  Just went to get gas - line was 70 cars deep at all stations.  Hit the store and it was nuts.  Water, canned meat, bread. Pop Tarts and of course 24 pack of Miller Lite.  Saw half the neighborhood there.

People starting to take this thing seriously.  Sirens will be going off any time now.  Starting to evacuate low lying areas.

We're about a mile and a half from the coastline but I am at sea level.  My parents and sister live about 5 miles down the coast but live on a good size hill. 

This is nuts.

Will keep you posted. 

[Don Ho]

A tsunami watch was also issued for the coasts of Oregon, Washington and California as well as parts of Alaska, The Oregonian newspaper reported. The paper said any wave which reached the coast could hit just before 7:30 a.m. local time Friday.

[Eagaholic]

Be safe, Don. It's heading toward you at 500mph, 4 hrs. Are you at high ground?

[Don Ho]

Not yet.  At home, but we live at the bottom of a steep hill and the road up there is literally 10 feet from where I'm sitting.

4 hours and counting.  Getting a little tense around here.  People definitely starting to panic.

[Eagaholic]

Good luck man, hopefully Japan got it the worst. I think they said another 20 countries could be in it's path.

[Diomedes]

8.9 is an amazing amount of energy, holy crap.

[ice grillin you]

Absolutely.  My priorities are all screwed up.  Just went to get gas - line was 70 cars deep at all stations.  Hit the store and it was nuts.  Water, canned meat, bread. Pop Tarts and of course 24 pack of Miller Lite.  Saw half the neighborhood there.

drama queens

there was never a chance of a tsunami in hawaii much less the us west coast...when theres an ocean quake anywhere in the world they just autopmatically call an earth wide tsunami warning...its like bush with the terror rainbow levels