Japanese police say deaths from the recent Sendai earthquake and tsunami, now upgraded to magnitude 9 and the 4th most intense in recorded history, will be measured “in the tens of thousands” amidst warnings of a likely magnitude 7 aftershock and an ongoing reactor crisis.
The police chief of tsunami-ravaged Miyagi prefecture says the final death toll “will undoubtedly be measured in the tens of thousands.”
Only 2,000 deaths have so far been officially confirmed, suggesting the final casualty figures will depend strongly on what proportion of the large numbers of unaccounted for persons turn out to be deceased as opposed to merely out of communication or dispersed amongst the 250,000 refugees currently displaced from their homes.
Of more immediate concern is the perilous state of Fukushima’s reactors, after the reactor officials reported as being at or near meltdown suffered a non-nuclear explosion shortly after it was brought under control.
Now Reactor 3 is undergoing a similar coolant system failure, and according to reports is also at or near meltdown status.
Officials say the possibility of an actual nuclear explosion is remote, but have confirmed radioactive leakage in the vicinity is at unsafe levels and have been steadily widening the exclusion zone around the plant to double its previous size.
After an “unprecedented” 180 magnitude 5+ aftershocks already, official seismologists also indicate that there is 70% chance of a magnitude 7 aftershock within the next 3 days, and a further 50% chance of one within the next 3 days after that – the only consolation being that there is not much left to destroy in the most vulnerable areas.
Tokyo has already largely returned to normal after suffering minimal casualties, although the capital region remains at risk of power cuts and is suffering lingering disruption to the distribution of goods.
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Such a tragedy. Condolences to the families who lost someone...
In simple words...
R.I.P
Forgive me if I'm heartless...but I'm still waiting for the headline "Ishihara and other candidates die in earthquake"...
You're not. I think most of us are wishing that the only casualties be are the ones against manga/anime/games (ie: Ishihara).
I call empty hope.
You know how shit works up there. One of the reasons why some people don't mind being hypocritic faggots that are the politicians is the privilege that comes with it. If they do somehow get into trouble in a major disaster, expect rescuers to put those politicians on the top list of priorities. This also applies to Ishihara and his cronies.
You either vote him out, or pay huge cash to assassinate him and bear the consequences. Those are the only way.
If Ishihara and his crones did not get hurt in that quake then they might focus on winning the votes by use of the sympathy tactic, I felt that the anime ban was more of a publicly stunt anyway.
the casualties should be every single one of you ducking japs you ass holes got what you mother fucking idiots did in world war 2
Somehow i get this feeling that ishihara can cast float on himself. You know like bad weeds can't easily die.
who cares about world war 2 if u say the japs got wat they deserved wat about america for bombing them? will we get wat we deserved?
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/03/13/quake-death-toll-will-be-measured-in-tens-of-thousands/#comment-775042
LOL What year are you from you stupid hick, why don't you go and do some real research instead of letting those teabagger shitheads you call politicians tell you what to believe.
its a shame that mother nature got to them before i did
Don't worry, I'm sure mother nature will get back at you soon enough.
Shit happens, AVEN
My condolences as well, and I hope no more lives are lost.
Japan has now actually had 300 aftershocks following the quake. It's quite thankful that very few of them have managed to hit the island.
It's mostly been gently rolling back and forth here in Tokyo, so not much to be worried about yet.
Here's hoping that the village of 10,000 that went missing won't be included in those numbers.
This is turning out to be a very big mess i feel for them so much i hope they can recover.. my heart goes out to them
This is too sad...
Condolences for everyone.
And I'm scared also because it's not even the "Big One" who could appear soon.
I can't say how I'm sorry for all the families.
To be fair... this is kinda a 'big one'. Just too scary to think what would've happened if this one was underneath a city. 6.0s were enough to destroy entire cities in Japan in decades past like Kobe.
And really sad that the Sendai region and other parts of rural Japan is so filled with older/elderly people.
I can't even visit Youtube without getting furious since it's filled with racist and outright insensitive crap right now. I can't even shoulder any type of comedy at this point, coming from snarky internet. Usually I can, but not with this.
How is it sad that Sendai is filled with old people? At least the victims are people who had live most of there lives. You don't want anyone do die but i think is better than having young people as the victims.
Japan has little youth anyway, they certainly can't afford losing more of them.
Youtube was always filled with stupid comments anyway. I know is annoying reading the stupidities of every idiot but the fact that even idiots can speak, shows the freedom of the internet and why it's so great. If you try to make the idiots shut-up you will make the sane people shut-up too and leave only evil controllers ruling everything, trolls are the necessary evil of freedom.
I hope my fellow Filipinos are safe and sound. Deep condolences to everyone who suffered and their families. Japan will recover as soon as possible.
Blowout soon fellow stalker
Um, can you clarify what you said obro? If you're being disrespectful with the ongoing tragedy, everyone will be disgusted with you.
My deep and sincere condolence to the people involved in the tragedy. My thoughts and prayers are with them.
doesn't really affect me at all.I am not from Japan.I don't have anyone in Japan that I should care about.I have no connections to Japan.
Why don't you pray for people dieing in middle east every single day? Because it's not cool to pray for them right now let's focus on Japan and pretend to care and then forget a week later.
Thanks for letting us know that you're a cold-blooded, heartless bastard, obro. So what if you're not from Japan or don't have anyone in Japan that you should care about? What if someone that you care about happens to be one of those victims? No wonder everyone here hates you. You must that anon who is in love with his God and keeps making distasteful comments here.
I'm not saying that I'm a heartless organism like the one I'm talking to right now but the situation in Japan and Middle East are two different things right now; Japan got hit by a disaster coming all of sudden out of nowhere while the latter one are obviously caused by the foolishness of (certain) human beings' themselves; busybody foreign armies, idiot terrorists who use God's name to "legally" shed blood, brainless suicide bombers who think blowing up themselves along with the innocent civilians will ensure them a ticket straight to heaven and parents who encourage their children to carry a riffle and shoot any white guy they see walking on street.
Yes I am sure that they should teach their children to love the Americans
Yup, the quakes are just going to get worse from here on out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_HLj2Q_B4I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3KCAP22JRc
Not to mention the radiation threat to the Western U.S. and Canada as the jet stream brings these radioactive elements in the air:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfKawRWSk3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z14TgZ3QEYw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1CFReh5o-U
prepare now. order some potassium iodide tablets, buy bottled water, have some food stored.
That third video is a hoax: http://www.blogotariat.com/node/211958
The fourth video has no real information.
And that last video finishes up with the expert saying he believes they probably have the situation under control.
Try reading an article from someone who actually gives a full explanation:
http://atomicinsights.blogspot.com/2011/03/nuclear-plant-issues-in-japan-are-least.html
Instead of wasting money on useless stuff trying to protect yourself from what won't happen, try donating that money to a relief fund to actually help the people in need.
why japan T-T why not put disastrs where the most terrorist are like in iraq >_>
because usa is a terrorist <_<
americas government are terrorists, not the people. The people have become slaves to the politicians.
I'm tired of hearing that already. Well, if america's people are that innocent, why won't they choose to oppose the government instead of living their "american dream"? Saying that you're a victim whilst living a fairly good life (compared to certain other countries) is pure hypocrisy and face-saving
And all of the 'politicians' are merely slaves to the corporations.
Who are slaves to the market demands of the people.
The people are happy that iraqis and afghanis are dying: they figure "good, kill all those men who marry girls and opress them".
Americans god is Woman. Just tell them someone is not worshiping WOman and they're happy to kill them.
because the terrorists are smart in one regard, they picked a relatively calm geologic area to live in.
Japan is like California, 60 million years ago.
The Middle East has had some very harsh earthquakes in the past, you know. Every place in the world could potentially be hit by brutal tremors. Some areas just take a long ass break between quakes, but they can all get hit.
>Japan is like California, 60 million years ago.
True... in that dinosaurs like Ishihara are still stumbling about, crushing innocent creatures in his wake.
What they need is a big fucking rock from outer space to fall on them and wipe out those has-beens while leaving the rest of the ecosystem intact. Wishful thinking, I know, but a guy can dream, can't he? o_0
Dammit why must japan suffer for this much lost sometime ill be thinking that the world is coming to an End as we speak
Why would you be anrgy about Qwaser of all things.
I don't know why, but he mad bro. Best not to feed the trolls man. After seeing all this, they're really hungry. I'd rather let them starve.
take ur religion some place were ppl care.
2000 deaths....im not sure what to say about this
as soon as i heard that there was an earthquake in japan i thought "oh ok....most likly a small one"
but one this large and this many deaths is giving me a sick feeling in my gut.
i wonder whats gonna happen next?
loser alert....
man... Its getting worse by the day... I fear the worst, but I really hope its not in the tens of thousands, and hope they can cool down the reactors before any more harm can be done.
I feel so bad for those ppl but please tell me Ishihara was caught up in that
Let's pray the nuclear reactor problems don't escalate any further.
Perhaps 'fortunately' if you're thinking relatively, the Nuclear Plants seam to be the least of the issues facing the public.
http://atomicinsights.blogspot.com/2011/03/nuclear-plant-issues-in-japan-are-least.html
SL-1 highlights the worst case failure mode of a BWR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1
In this case even without a containment building the damage was no where close to that of Chernobyl.
Also the fuel in modern reactors is in an oxide form which can't burn it can only melt.
No high level radiation has been released the video from the camera would have noise in the form of snow and bleeding colors if there was as a CCD or CMOS image sensor is pretty good at detecting neutrons.
Using Katrina as an example their biggest worry by far is diseases cholera which unlike the reactor really can kill thousands if not got under control quickly and looting.
I'll pray upon all death gods that you die, scum Anon.
I feel for Japan. My Condolences.
It's funny to see that the world is always the same.
Hello Troll!
To the others : don't feed him, he bite...(sometimes)
Quit eating mushrooms.
I know it is against your policy but artefact please moderate these senseless degenerates. Their childish trolling is too much even for this site
@Anon 19:25 U mad?
Result of twisted religion and too much LSDs it seems.
He hates Japan but calls himself whatever-'sama'? That's pretty cute.
he just thinks he is "cool" when he really is a lonly drug/man lover..