EARTHQUAKE!!! TOKYO HIT HARD

ME!!! | March 11, 2011 | Ronin

[Ronin]

Tokyo just got smacked hard. Still feeling tremors. Refrigerator broken, glass everywhere. I'm safe.

Other Japan FReepers check in!!

[Anti-Hillary]

Nagoya, Kariya, /the home of the Toyoda family.... Due south of Tokyo, north of Osaka,,,,

[Islander7]

A tsunami watch has been issued for the state of Hawaii as of 7:56 p.m. Thursday.

It has been upgraded to a WARNING. Sirens sounding now.

[Freddd]

Hawaii time, that’s near 8 a.m.

[Cindy]

Thank you for the update Islander 7.

[Allegra]

I’m glad you two are safe. Prayers up for all.

One of my co-workers is a Navy guy...stationed in Guam and scheduled to redeply from here in Iraq very soon. He’s worried about his friends in Guam.

[BIGLOOK]

I’m right on Hilo Bay; the sirens have sounded and I’ve got a bag packed and ready to go.......

[Fledermaus]

Be safe.

[tcrlaf]

This buoy is around 700 miles southeast of tokyo, north of Kwajalien (SP?)

[JimSEA]

Wow. An 8.9 precursor Quake. Sitting on top of the world’s biggest subduction zone has its bad points. Any word on tsunami hitting China or Korea?

[PghBaldy]

Yes. My brother is in Taiwan, but he said he is safe.

Times tsunami expected to hit various areas:

http://www.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=pacific.2011.03.11.073000

[Kathy in Alaska]

I thought so.....evacuation bag packed? Ready to depart? Effect on your son’s area?

[EternalVigilance]

God bless and God speed.

[STARWISE]

You’re a Boy Scout....
Stay safe and sound. God bless and protect you and all who’re so worried right now.

[BuckyKat]

When we were looking at purchasing, I purposely stayed away from Ewa and Kapolei, not thinking tsunami so much as flash flooding. I remember a really bad election day (forget what year)where H1 was flooded on the viaduct to the top of the concrete guardrail on the mauka side. Kapolei and Ewa were virtually impassible.

[TigerLikesRooster]

[BIGLOOK]

My son won’t be affected at all....he’s up around 1100 feet. But he won’t be driving down to the docks in the morning so he’ll lose a day of work.

[21twelve]

http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/state/guam/apra_nankai01_p.mp4

Here is a tsunami inundation model for Guam. Interestingly they used (I think!) a 8.9 magnitude off the coast of Japan. (With a ground motion of 15 meters along the fault line).

[Munz]

Prayers to you stay safe and get to high ground

[ponygirl]

Remember the British mantra from WWII: “Keep Calm and Carry On!”

[STARWISE]

From WSJ live blogging

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2:20 amby Brittany HiteAdd a Comment Philippine officials are ordering an evacuation of coastal communities along the country’s eastern seaboard in expectation of a tsunami following a 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan, the Associated Press reported.

Philippine Volcanology and Seismology Institute director Renato Solidum told the AP that the first 3-foot (1-meter) high waves are expected to hit the northernmost Batanes islands by 5 p.m. local time Friday.

2:16 amby Brittany HiteAdd a Comment NHK reported that a ceiling collapsed at a Honda Motor plant in Tochigi, and a female worker has been confirmed dead.

2:16 amby Miho InadaAdd a Comment Reported damage in the Tokyo area includes the following:

Two injured at a Tokyo outlet of U.S. wholesale store Costoco due to the collapse of slope of car parking.

Four houses have caught fire in the Tokyo Adachi ward, burning down the floor area of 200 square meters.
Land liquefaction is detected in the water front area in Chiba.

25 injured—5 of them seriously injured—due to a collapse of the ceiling of the Tokyo Kudan Kaikan, where 600 people were gathering for a college graduation party

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/03/11/live-blog-japan-earthquake/