Japan earthquake and tsunami

CinnamonGirl wrote: They said this is 5 strongest earthquake since recording strength. I know they are trying to evacuate. The lack of information is alarming. That usually means they don't have much in the way of communication. We are going to see alot worse news coming up.

Having been through panicky evacuation situations down in hurricane country, I can't even imagine what it would like trying to evacuate people through a devastated landscape with sketchy communications and probably lots of wounded people.

At this time they have NO communication through cellular or land line. Just what the reporters are either inventing or some ground reports passed along.

That whirlpool was wierd to have happened in a shallow area like that. My guess is that it was caused by an initial tsunami wave that was deflected back or was partially receding and collided with another incoming tsunami wave. The pier or breaker seems to have channeled them into each other causing a huge eddy that it appears as a whirlpool.

http://twitter.com/BreakingNews#

http://www.facebook.com/BreakingNews

I follow this alot. They follow major news entities. I also have them on Facebook.

http://twitter.com/REUTERSFLASH

http://www.thejournal.ie/fears-of-a-rad ... i-2011-03/

“We understand this situation is under control,” the analyst said, adding that he understood that a back-up battery power system had been brought online after about an hour and began pumping water back into the cooling system, where the water level had been falling.

Japanese news media quoted officials in Fukushima Prefecture as saying that water levels were 3.4 meters — about 10 feet — above the fuel rods at the No. 2 reactor at the plant. Tokyo Electrical Power officials confirmed that water levels had been falling but said that fuel roads had not been exposed.

Full Article

CNN says Sec. Clinton said that US is sending a US plane with coolant to Japan.

Oh Boy a whole bunch of Glycol.

Entire Japanese City On Fire

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... quake.html

Oh my gosh, watching that is hard, this could just as easily have been Los Angeles or San Francisco or one of the cities in the path of the New Madrid fault like St. Louis.

CNN breaking:

1:42pm Eastern) "They are being forced to release the radioactive gases to try and ease the pressure building in one reactor to prevent a complete meltdown."