im in playa carmen, CR right now sitting at a shop on the main street. i can see the waves breaking from where im sitting. the waves have been a little smaller yesterday and today but it was super fun being out with 3 people out when its normally super crowded bc of tsunami evacs. its supposed to hit us around 4-5pm so it looks like well be watching a tsunami/sunset tonight in the montonas!
Check this footage from Japanese TV... really gruesome. Thoughts and prayers are with these people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGrNDYPidWU
This video is the best quality i have seen. Its wild at the start of the video you see the water flowing in, then at the end you see it flowing at. Looks like the video is unedited too, so all that happened in a matter of minutes... Anyone know the water temp? if these people survived the initial wave are they gonna freeze to death??
The pacific in Socal looks like it is smoking. Its 80 degrees, not a cloud in the sky 1 mile inland, and as you approach the coast, it literally looks likes its on fire. The SD river is super high. The bay tides are shifting, and a lot of boats are knocking around and getting beached.... Nothing major though. A ton of surfers out. The surfs is bigger now, almost head high. Its is not cool that these guys are out. The rips look bad. You cant see your hand in front of your face. I think they should show a little more respect.... They kept showing these cracked out yahoos with broken fins and beat up old boards on the local news, all yelling about how they are going to "wait for the big one" and surf in the tsunami swell. So novelty. Its not even over head. Poor taste. Even the seals in La Jolla got out of the ocean. They all know something is up when the tide shifts at the wrong time. Its like the fish went deep, and the seals just lined up along the bluffs, waiting out whatever sketchy energy that they are feeling. Can you imagine what that must have been like for the sea life by the epicenter? The booming of the quake, and then 500 mile an hour ocean current. Those animals must have been thrown through quite a spin cycle. I wonder if some will end up washing up on land... But it looks like we are in the clear in southern CA... One guy is missing after being swept away up in the bay area. off the docks. The water temps are in the high 50s I think, but that cold is not the issue. If those walls of water hit you, you drown. That water was moving hundreds of miles per hour as it swept people away. They said when the water backed off of that farm town that was swept away in that video post and there were 300+ bodies there. Still in the town. Imagine how many others were swepts away and not located yet... Those cars speeding away is about the saddest sh** ive ever seen. Technology and video has really made this incident hit home around the globe. Its like absolute terror.
[/QUOTE]Those cars speeding away is about the saddest sh** ive ever seen. Technology and video has really made this incident hit home around the globe. Its like absolute terror.[/QUOTE] I'm with you Zach, that was horrific, the box truck turning around trying to escape that just gets engulfed by the wave of debris and cars just giving it everything they have to try to escape. did you check out the link I posted. crisp unedited video from Japanese tv, huge ships being tossed around and pile driven through the community... tragic.
Never though about how devastating the water becomes on the way out as well. Always focused on the original wave but as the water moves back out it's another round of destruction. Thoughts and prayers are with the families.
Perhaps the scariest thing is what could potentially happen with the overheating nuclear reactors and all. I guess that could take an already epic disaster to an even higher level
I saw somebody say on the news that Japan now lies 8 feet further east than before the quake. Whole thing is mind boggling...
Kind of makes you wonder if something like this can happen to us.Could you imagine what New York City would be like.I don't know when the end of the world is.Ony God knows, but to me it doesn't seem too far off,with everything going on right now on this planet.
All these techtonic plates are connected throughout the globe. The Chili Quake released tension under southern california, which is why we got hit with a 6.5er on Easter last year. So, I hope the worst is over, but I would not be surprised at all if we had some activity on the west coast sometime in the near future. My dad works for NOAA and he explained that in reality, the most dangerous fault line in the US acutally runs from Maine to Georgia. The last time it shook it ripped through the entire coast, creating the mountain ranges that are there now... If you remember last year, downtown Baltimore had a quake of around 3.8 I want to say... It is not a very active fault line, but a lot of people don't know that. I never knew there was a possibility of quakes back east when I lived there... So, Mentawis had effects which triggered Haiti, which had effects that tiggereed Chili, which had effects that triggered numerous socal/normex quakes in the past year, and now the action has affected over on the other side of the pacific.... Is it me, or does it seem like there massive quakes have been happening more often in this millenium? Maybe I was just young and didn't watch enough news... but this is crazy!
really wild stuff... when earthquakes as strong as this occur the entire planet gets screwed up. even the speed at which the earth rotates becomes slower
Not sure if this is the exact one that you were talking about, but the Ramapo Fault would directly effect some individuals on here. Last major earthquake was in 1884 and that was in New York City. Certainly not as active as many of the other fault lines in the US, but interesting non the less. Wiki NJ Monthly
