@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1745 GMT: A 50cm-high (20in) tsunami has awept along Mexico's north-west coast, AFP reports.
Japan Earthquake/Tsunami
Japan Earthquake/Tsunami
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1747 GMT: CNN correspondent Kyung Lah tweets: "I've gone 3 miles in 3 hours. Seriously. This is how bad it is in Tokyo right now."
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1751 GMT: All Japanese ports have reportedly been closed. "It's a big mess. All discharge operations are suspended in the area," a Japanese ship broker told the Reuters news agency. Another broker said: "Most or all coal stocks will be washed out at many of the coal-fired power plants. Ports will be closed at least for a short time until damage assessments can take place."
Edit: If anyone can find the raw videos of the earthquake on Youtube please post them here, the BBC is only showing brief clips of them. I've looked but naturally they are titled in Japanese, making them pretty hard to find for an English bloke.
Dale, thanks for keeping us all update. I'm at work and this is the easiest site for me to access atm.
Cerberus.Liandaru said:
Dale, thanks for keeping us all update. I'm at work and this is the easiest site for me to access atm.
You're welcome.
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1757: Ali Attas, a Kenyan journalist living in Yokohama, has told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme about the moment the earthquake struck: "It was just an incredible scary feeling, the intensity started increasing. When I started moving in the room, I could not stand on my feet. I was beginning to hit the wall... I am not going to sleep tonight." Balkisu Saidu, a Nigerian studying in central Tokyo, said she had been standing in a queue for a bus for nearly three hours, trying to get home.
Also, Thanks Chuuuuu.
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1801 GMT: Scientists have said the earthquake ranked as the fifth-largest in the world since 1900 and was nearly 8,000 times stronger than one that devastated the city of Christchurch in New Zealand last month. "The energy radiated by this quake is nearly equal to one month's worth of energy consumption" in the United States, Brian Atwater of the US Geological Survey told the Associated Press.
Brb, I'm going to take a short break to get some tea, I've been sat here since I woke up. I'll post any updates en masse when I get back.
Asura.Chuuuuu said:
Clean-up on aisle 4? =/
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I've been watching the BBC feed since Dale posted it and I can't look away..
I feel terrible and my thoughts and prayers out for Japan and surrounding areas.
I feel terrible and my thoughts and prayers out for Japan and surrounding areas.
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1803 GMT: President Barack Obama says the US is ready to give Japan any assistance it needs to stabilise the nuclear reactor in Fukushima. Officials have said pressure is rising after a cooling system failure.
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1807 GMT: The BBC News website has published a large map of Japan with embedded video from key locations, showing the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami.
Bahamut.Zorander said:
I've been watching the BBC feed since Dale posted it and I can't look away..
I feel terrible and my thoughts and prayers out for Japan and surrounding areas.
I feel terrible and my thoughts and prayers out for Japan and surrounding areas.
It is horrible, isn't it? =(
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1809 GMT: The world should extend its sympathy for Japan - but also its deepest admiration, writes Nicholas Kristoff in The New York Times.
Asura.Daleterrence said:
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1803 GMT: President Barack Obama says the US is ready to give Japan any assistance it needs to stabilise the nuclear reactor in Fukushima. Officials have said pressure is rising after a cooling system failure.
Oh ***. Oh ***oh ***oh ***.
I've been watching the news non-stop since about an hour after this thing hit last night. Have a friend in Osaka, says he's OK and that not much happened there, but Jesus everywhere else is pure chaos...
apparently, i just slept through the Hawaii tsunami
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1814 GMT: The BBC's Roland Buerk in Tokyo says the official death toll has risen to 350, with another 500 or so missing.
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1816 GMT: Just a reminder that large aftershocks of around magnitude 5.0 are continuing in north-east Japan, more than 12 hours after the devastating 8.9 quake. Stay with us for further live updates.
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1818 GMT: Some reports from local US media of the tsunami's arrival on the US West Coast: Joe Vazquez from CBS5 tweets: "Second tsunami surge now hitting Santa Cruz. CBS5 reporting a dozen or so sunken boats. County spokesman says at least $2m damage." KGO Radio tweets: "Crescent City OES: All docks are gone after first surge, 35 boats crushed, water starting to fill harbor parking lot."
Thanks Degs, that just shows how much of Japan was effected by this, even by a minor amount.
Oh, something to note; the Earthquake was so powerful, it was picked up by experts in Scotland.
Oh, something to note; the Earthquake was so powerful, it was picked up by experts in Scotland.
Phoenix.Degs said:
Asura.Daleterrence said:
Thanks Degs, that just shows how much of Japan was effected by this, even by a minor amount.
Oh, something to note; the Earthquake was so powerful, it was picked up by experts in Scotland.
Oh, something to note; the Earthquake was so powerful, it was picked up by experts in Scotland.
i believe i read that after shocks, which can reach almost to the strength of the original quake can occur up to a month after the event.
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1826 GMT: Boats in Santa Cruz harbour, California, have been damaged by waves generated by the tsunami, US broadcaster ABC reports. Water levels dropped by about 9ft (2.7m). Cliffs above Ocean Beach in San Francisco have been filled with spectators, it says.
im surprised california did get damage o.o
Quetzalcoatl.Kanjirou said:
Asura.Daleterrence said:
@BBCBreaking via Twitter said:
1803 GMT: President Barack Obama says the US is ready to give Japan any assistance it needs to stabilise the nuclear reactor in Fukushima. Officials have said pressure is rising after a cooling system failure.
Oh ***. Oh ***oh ***oh ***.
Clearly that plant failing doesn't need to happen, I think Japan has had enough Nuclear explosions or such for the earth's existance.
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