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Japan Earthquake + Tsunamis= between March 10 and 11 of 2011(I think)
Simply horrendus; my condolences to all who have perished and their family in the Japan tsunamis of March 11 in consequence of earlier earthquakes. Hundreds are believed to be dead and missing with more to come. Western Canada + Hawaii with tsunami warnings. (edit)Apparently it's the 7th strongest earthquake in recorded history.

Live stream: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ -courtesy HFOilers poster Jepprey

Edit: Some pictures wow... -coutesy HFOilers poster NoLocus

8.9 earthquake amirite?

I'm glad I live in Kansas, the only things that happen are tornados. Maybe some flooding, but nothing to disastrous.

RedRaver wrote:

8.9 earthquake amirite?

I'm glad I live in Kansas, the only things that happen are tornados. Maybe some flooding, but nothing to disastrous.

I'm glad I live in Alberta where it's not close to the sea like Vancouver. In this case, beside the same ocean of the Japan March 11/11 incident.

Also, the only 'disaster' we might get here is only heavy blizzards and snowstorms. I can live with that.

The only disasters I get where I live is snowstorms. My town is known for disastrous floods but none of them happened in my lifetime.

We get freaking everything here in Ohio. We had a hurricane two years ago. IN OHIO. But it wasn't near as bad as the tsunami. God bless all who are suffering.

Gr33n wrote:

We get freaking everything here in Ohio. We had a hurricane two years ago. IN OHIO. But it wasn't near as bad as the tsunami. God bless all who are suffering.

Wow that's nice and bad to here^.
We had a bad tornado at my place around 5 months ago.
Broke down trees and everything. This one guy even had his house broken down because a tree fell into it.

Well since you guys are all talking about your disasters. I'll talk mine In 1987 on July 31. There was a tornado in my city resulting in 558million CAD$ damages. Hence that day, we named it Black Friday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton_Tornado

Spoiler:

-courtesy HFOilers poster Jimmi Jenkins
Picture above^ shows the wave heights of tsunamis currently.
Oh fuck...Hope there won't be any further losses of life.

Short video from CBS regarding California flooding/tsunami: http://robotceleb.com/news/217033-03112011-california-tsunami-live-video-footage.html

Oil refinery now on fire and radioactive vapour released to cool down the
radioactive plantations. On a personal note: that just shows how desperate and serious things are down there in Japan.

Thousands feared dead.

More pictures -courtesy HFOilers poster NoLocus

President Obama sent tons of troops and equipment to help with the rescue process- good for him. Rumor is that the US sent coolant to Japan for the nuclear reactors.

Nearly 11thousand Canadians in Japan-according to CBC.

Live streaming from CBC

Hope you guys don't mind if I keep the editing because of updates and things I think interesting. If you do mind, just tell me that you do mind through chat or pm or whatever. I might have to go soon so yeah. Also I'm sorry if eveything is a little-messy.

Y r my posts getting deleted all I said was that nuclear power plants were destroyed in japan

I live in vermont. Im a Green Mountain Boy Baby lol.
Though in 2001 we had an earthquake cause the lake we live next to, Lake Champlain, is a giant fault line. but it was like a 3.2 or somthing.

News update: Radiation levels, according to CBC, are 1000 times the normal levels in the (edit) plant forcing more evacuation of the area.

ohhh dam i saw tht. thats pretty scary.