This is hours old that a earthquake of a 8.9 has hit Japan.
A massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake has struck off Japan’s northeastern coast, triggering a four meter tsunami that washed away cars along parts of the coastline.
Additional aftershocks and Tsunami are expected.
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Evacuations in progress for Hawaii, and calling for them on the West Coast and British Columbia and coastal Alaska. Hawaii will see them at 3 AM local, CA/OR/WA at 7-8 AM local.
6-8 feet on the west coast. This is SERIOUS shit. Prayers up.
Tsunami warnings for entire Pacific Rim, including Central and South America. Wave will hit Hawaii at 3 am their time, will reach West Coast 7-8 AM PST. Entire towns on east coast on Honshu are totally GONE.
Thoughts and prayers up.
The footage is incredible and shocking. One TV commentator said its the first complete footage of an earthquake and the resulting wave. Not sure if that’s true but the magnitude is still astounding.
A 7 meter/23 foot wave is no small matter and that they have had fewer than 100 fatalities shows the technology that they have in place. This was very close to them, so alert time was very short. In Indonesia this could well have been a couple hundred thousand, like a few years ago.
California is expecting a 2-3 foot wave now.
Scary, that’s a huge earthquake.
I don’t think we’ll see hollywood celebrities jumping to promote assistance for this one though.
I’ve only been through a couple of small quakes (2.0) since I moved into the Rockies. Those were more than enough; I can’t imagine an 8.0+ quake. That would have to be hell on earth.
Prayers out for those folks in Japan.
Strongest I ever went through was the 1993 Guam quake which was an 8.1. That was bad enough, thanks very much.