Japanese earthquake...

[Menen]

Reading the Comments in the Youtube videos, it seems those idiots cant even stop from fighting even on videos of natural disasters and people dying.


Religion Wars happen on any kind of video

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[Daenth]

By the looks of it, the Japanese can build strong houses with bad foundations. Those houses were being washed away and they weren't even being broken apart.


but inb4AmericanInvetvention

It's because the foundations slowly wore away with every small earthquake. They would have repaired them if they new about the huge earthquake.

[lordician]

Jesus, moar problems in the east. :C

[Momentum]

I have to get down there and help.

[Menen]

I have to get down there and help.

Implying that Japan's location is lower on earth than yours

[Citrus]

[Momentum]

My Parents probably wont let me :c

[Night Fox]

Implying that Japan's location is lower on earth than yours

Usually, when using down and up for relative location, it refers to coordinates.
So, if he was at 2, 5 and Japan was at -6, -8; it would be proper for him to say "down there."

[Flying Ace]

first haiti then Egypt and then libya and now this

the whole world in someway or another is going to pot :I





also I'm not saying there are any quakes in Egypt and Libya but what I mean is general chaos

http://www.google.com/

Tsunami Alert for New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and others. Waves expected over the next few hours, caused by 8.9 earthquake in Japan.

thats where I found out this morning around 5:40

any news about the Nuclear plant?

[Wedge]

By the looks of it, the Japanese can build strong houses with bad foundations. Those houses were being washed away and they weren't even being broken apart.
but inb4AmericanInvetvention

Actually it's a function of how homes are built. Typical residential buildings are secured to the foundation by embedded j-bolts screwed into the sill plate (the bottom part of the wall). I don't know the exact physics behind it since I haven't really studied it, but I imagine moving flood waters would exert enough force on a wall to shear the entire house off the foundation. It's not an issue with the foundation, or rather, the foundation is part of the problem, but it's the construction method itself, not damage to the foundation.

I should also mention that this construction method is called light frame construction is extremely common the entire world over. It was invented in Chicago in the mid 1800s and became popular again after WWII (with some changes) and almost every home in the US to date is built this way.

[Daenth]

http://jibtv.com/program/fullscreen.aspx?page=0
I'm watching this because I want news.

[_Dark_]

This is scaring me right now for one reason: I know someone who is there right now. He was a teacher from Japan who visited my old school for two years. He lives in the town the earth quake and tidle wave hit. We all are posting on his Facebook and hope he's okay.

[Rockinboy2000]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fUqdGXLbM&feature=channel_video_title


Actual fotage of how bad it was.

[Domidore66]

Whee radioactive emissions!

[Dnitro]

Whee radioactive emissions!

50 thousand people used to live here

man, i feel sorry for all of the ants.
I mean 15 cm waves are like 9000 feet in ant measurements.