Watching the NHK feed

[nenena]

A 6.8 just hit south of Sendai again and a 6.1 hit Nagano two hours ago. It just isn't stopping.

I haven't been able to contact anybody that I know in Japan yet.

Completely terrifying Science Facts, courtesy of the NHK news feed: A cubic meter of water weighs one ton. (Sciencey people: is this really true? I had no idea.) Now imagine how many cubic meters of water were in the first 20-foot-high wave that hit Japan yesterday. And that wave reached speeds of up to 500 kilometers per hour when it was traveling over the open ocean.

This is not just the worst earthquake in recorded Japanese history, but the fifth-most powerful earthquake ever recorded anywhere in the world, period.

Four passenger trains and a cruise ship with over 100 people on it have been missing since yesterday.

Links again, because these cannot be signal-boosted enough: CharityNavigator and Google People Finder.

Comments

[chiikaboom.livejournal.com]

oh my god thats so scary! I hope the people you know there are ok!!!

[nenena.livejournal.com]

I hope so too.

I'm not letting myself be too worried yet, because a lot of people who are perfectly fine are still incommunicado due to a lack of access to phones and the internet. I just hope that I can get through to some of them before the weekend is over.

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

*hug hug hug hug hug* :(

i hope & am praying that the ppl you know are ok D:

[popcorn42.livejournal.com]

Our thoughts are with you and the people you know.

[wanderingdreamr.livejournal.com]

Hope everyone you know is okay, got in contact with my friend in Japan but I'm worried for my Japanese teacher's family since I don't know where they live. Hope the aftershocks stop soon.

[vega-jd.livejournal.com]

Oh God, this is so horrible, I wish it would just stop already :(

[bardicfool.livejournal.com]

Pics are terrifying. Dad says I can no longer go to Japan. Ever. Am sending folks over there good thoughts and will check out the assistance opportunities. Hope all your peeps in that area are okay.

[thegrapeofdeath.livejournal.com]

Sciencey people: is this really true? I had no idea.

Pure water has the highest density of 1 g/cm at about 4°C. This ends up being 1000 kg/m^3, which is a metric ton. The US defines a ton as 2,000 lb, just slightly over 900kg.

It should be known that seawater is denser, around Japan ~1025 kg/m^3. Doing a quick calculation, that would be ~2260 lb, which I'm pretty sure would qualify it under the 'long ton' used in the British system. So, unfortunately, using the term here is not an exaggeration.

[ash-ka-chan.livejournal.com]

I'm worried too. My cousin's grandma has family in Japan, and she was planning on visiting them this May. She's super nice, and doesn't need this kind of stress in her life.

Just seeing some of the pictures floating around on the web is freaking me out. It's also making me at a loss of words. On Pixiv there's already over 30 pages of encouraging pictures, unbelievable.

If I had the money, I'd donate. But I don't. For now I'm just surfing around the 'net, sending messages on fourms and that. And reblogging all kinds of stuff on Tumblr.

Apparently, over 20,000 people are being evacuated in Japan due to a possible nuclear power plant meltdown. That's really freaking me out.

[masterchick69.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing the links in your previous posts. My family in the states and myself are worried about our family and friends in Japan. Because of the links you posts, my family can watch a more minute by minute coverage on what's going on in the east.

I hope you make contact with your friends and I hope they are safe and well.

[lefthandpenguin.livejournal.com]

One of the girls I know studying abroad right now just got back for spring break. Another one is in Nagoya but she seems to be doing fine~. Alot of my Japanese friends here were worried about their families, but everyone seems alright so far...

[karenhealey.livejournal.com]

Augh, Nenena, my best wishes to your people.

[animeshen.livejournal.com]

I have a friend in Japan teaching English, haven't heard from her yet. I donated what I could to international Red Cross. This is really frightful. I hope everyone will be okay.

[aiwatan.livejournal.com]

The more I learn the more horrible it was.

I hope all the people you are worried over there are fine. I'm worried myself about my teacher over there. Though she usually is busy and takes her time to reply e-mails so I don't want to over-worry.

Best Wishes for you!

[(Anonymous)]

When I heard about this quake, I got really scared when I learned about it yesterday at school, and in a class, we had to spend the whole time researching it, and when I saw the video, a little screen, but the houses and bouts were WAY smaller, and I saw them all drifting away in the screen I was really worried about it! I really hope you will get in contact with your friends and family there in Japan! I live in the Ring of Fire too, so my dad predicts there's going to be a big earthquake too..... for some reason I hope so..... but I really hope Japan can rebuild themselves! This news was so horrible and so sudden!!!

[annalouise.livejournal.com]

heya, if you haven't been able to contact them don't worry - lots of people don't have internet/phone and all the networks are jammed. I'm in like the most south-western part of fukushima possible so I've been ok, but so many of my friends watched the tsunami just wipe out their towns.