RE: JAPAN EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI
Mar. 11th, 2011 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogWhen I left the flat this afternoon, I’d heard there’d just been an earthquake in Japan. I only saw a headline and a Facebook post from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dinopollard , and this was maybe three minutes after it happened, so I didn’t know the details.
When I came back home 4.5 hours later, I found out about the tsunami.
I’ve been watching coverage on the BBC and Al Jazeera since then.
If you've seen the footage, you don’t need me to tell you how bad it is. And it’s going to get worse at this stage, depending on how big the tsunami is in other areas (it’s hitting Hawaii as I type this). The BBC is showing live footage of Sendai City on fire. The death toll is likely going to go way up.
One reason I’m posting about is that it struck me how routine a headline about an earthquake in Japan is – at least to me. I was actually in Tokyo once when one hit – it was minor, and they issued tsunami alerts then, and when they came they were maybe ten centimeters high.
So it’s a shock to see Japan get clobbered this badly after dodging so many bullets (since Kobe, anyway – and this was bigger). And of course it brings back memories of the Boxing Day tsunami.
I know people in Japan, though not really that far north. So I’m hoping to not get any bad news.
For the record, we’re fine in HK – they didn’t expect waves over half a meter, and in the end they were about 0.2m.
Oh, and for those of you who knowdinopollard , he’s fine. He's watching Black Dynamite.
– dF
dinopollard , and this was maybe three minutes after it happened, so I didn’t know the details. When I came back home 4.5 hours later, I found out about the tsunami.
I’ve been watching coverage on the BBC and Al Jazeera since then.
If you've seen the footage, you don’t need me to tell you how bad it is. And it’s going to get worse at this stage, depending on how big the tsunami is in other areas (it’s hitting Hawaii as I type this). The BBC is showing live footage of Sendai City on fire. The death toll is likely going to go way up.
One reason I’m posting about is that it struck me how routine a headline about an earthquake in Japan is – at least to me. I was actually in Tokyo once when one hit – it was minor, and they issued tsunami alerts then, and when they came they were maybe ten centimeters high.
So it’s a shock to see Japan get clobbered this badly after dodging so many bullets (since Kobe, anyway – and this was bigger). And of course it brings back memories of the Boxing Day tsunami.
I know people in Japan, though not really that far north. So I’m hoping to not get any bad news.
For the record, we’re fine in HK – they didn’t expect waves over half a meter, and in the end they were about 0.2m.
Oh, and for those of you who know
dinopollard , he’s fine. He's watching Black Dynamite.– dF
