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Best wishes to Japan & surrounding areas
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Just a quick message to any PI members, their families & friends who are caught up in the Japanese earthquake / tsunami. Hoping that you are all safe & well. God bless
Yes, it’s a very sad day for everyone in Japan. It will take a very long time to recover from a disaster of this magnitude.
Thinking of everyone,
Dave.I’m over here, I’m well and my wife and her family are fine.
I’m in Tokyo, just arrived back in from Ireland yesterday morning and was asleep on the sofa when it woke me.
It was unusual as it lasted a long time about 2 mins and got stronger. There were aftershocks all day, and even today.My apartment building is quite flexible so it sways quite a bit, there was stuff tossed on the floor, the gas meter cuts off the gas automatically. But no major damage.
But here we are far from the real carnage, it is horrifying to see what happened up north. And then there are 2 nuclear reactors in danger of meltdown. Hopefully the worse is over.
Thanks,
MartinI have a daughter going to college in Tokyo and so far she is ok..keeping my fingers crossed.
Good to hear you and yours are well Martin.
Apparently the shock was so bad that according to Reuters “The earthquake that devastated northeast Japan displaced the country’s main island by 2.4 meters and even tilted the axis of the Earth by nearly 10 centimeters” !
I guess I am nearer home now.
Tokyo is ok, obviously there has been terrible carnage north of Tokyo.The nuclear issue has been totally sensationalised in the western press, although BBC world had someone on who put it into proper perspective
http://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
http://atomicinsights.blogspot.com/2011/03/nuclear-plant-issues-in-japan-are-least.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;But the tsunami toll will be huge.
The quake was 8000 times the strength of the NZ quake, the aftershocks were almost continuous on the day and even today, 2 days later, there are still some over magnitude 6.Many photos going around, this is a typical set
http://framework.latimes.com/2011/03/11/earthquake-and-tsunami-hits-japan/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;A town I stayed in in Northern Japan is gone, horrific stuff.
MartinOC wrote:
I guess I am nearer home now.
Tokyo is ok, obviously there has been terrible carnage north of Tokyo.The nuclear issue has been totally sensationalised in the western press, although BBC world had someone on who put it into proper perspective
http://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
http://atomicinsights.blogspot.com/2011/03/nuclear-plant-issues-in-japan-are-least.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;But the tsunami toll will be huge.
The quake was 8000 times the strength of the NZ quake, the aftershocks were almost continuous on the day and even today, 2 days later, there are still some over magnitude 6.Many photos going around, this is a typical set
http://framework.latimes.com/2011/03/11/earthquake-and-tsunami-hits-japan/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;A town I stayed in in Northern Japan is gone, horrific stuff.
Hey Martin, I hope you and yours continue to be well – readin ghte news today, the tone of the stories is increasingly gloomy on the prospects of the powerplant avoiding some sort of a meltdown – are you considering leaving Tokyo for a while, or what is the situation?
cheers
ssI’m obviously monitoring the situation carefully, (and disregarding a lot of sensationalising in the press). Twitter has been a great resource to help find good info.
I got an email from the Irish Embassy suggesting that Irish Citizen leave Tokyo; their reasoning is “considering the circumstances”.
However any expert I have read has said there is no danger to Tokyo. For example:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/paul-atkinson/japan-nuclear-update-british-embassy/10150111611771235″ onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;The US embassy is in line with the British.
Various experts like
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3165067.htm” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
and most analysis on BBC is level headed, but most other media is very sensational.There is of course a huge human tragedy in the north of Tokyo, it is very sad. That should be the main story.
We are still getting significant shakes, you can see from here
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
that we are getting constants aftershocks, since the big one about 35 of at least magnitude 6, which is not a weak earthquake.
Shops are fairly bare in Tokyo, but people are calm.Coincidently I just finished the previous Tuesday a book about hype/fear used in the media and politics, and how human evaluate risk, and how one should evaluate risks. Hopefully that has helped me make the right decision.
Staying put for now.But as with all my comment & critique it comes with the implicit prefix: “Now I’m no expert but this is what I think..”
Martin
MartinOC wrote:
I’m obviously monitoring the situation carefully, (and disregarding a lot of sensationalising in the press). Twitter has been a great resource to help find good info.
I got an email from the Irish Embassy suggesting that Irish Citizen leave Tokyo; their reasoning is “considering the circumstances”.
However any expert I have read has said there is no danger to Tokyo. For example:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/paul-atkinson/japan-nuclear-update-british-embassy/10150111611771235″ onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;The US embassy is in line with the British.
Various experts like
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3165067.htm” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
and most analysis on BBC is level headed, but most other media is very sensational.There is of course a huge human tragedy in the north of Tokyo, it is very sad. That should be the main story.
We are still getting significant shakes, you can see from here
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
that we are getting constants aftershocks, since the big one about 35 of at least magnitude 6, which is not a weak earthquake.
Shops are fairly bare in Tokyo, but people are calm.Coincidently I just finished the previous Tuesday a book about hype/fear used in the media and politics, and how human evaluate risk, and how one should evaluate risks. Hopefully that has helped me make the right decision.
Staying put for now.But as with all my comment & critique it comes with the implicit prefix: “Now I’m no expert but this is what I think..”
Martin
ss
Thanks Martin for this – and fair play to you – a very pragmatic outlook – all the best to you and yours!!Thanks Streetshooter,
There is an update, the British Foreign Office has changed it’s view in the last few hours to: “nationals should consider leaving Tokyo”.
However their scientific committee’s has not changed it’s opinion that there is no danger of health issues in the worst case.I should be on beach in Thailand!
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