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Tokyo just got smacked hard. Still feeling tremors. Refrigerator broken, glass everywhere. I'm safe. Other Japan FReepers check in!!

Fox News Channel (not the website) is now reporting 8700 dead... Latest updates on Earthquake info...

WORST CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY EVER: According to the latest reports, the number of dead is anywhere between 3900 and 6300 dead, thousands more missing, and both sets of numbers are expected to rise... A seismologist has already reviewed the data on the quakes...and this is the sum of what he found... 1. Magnitude was 8.9...Occurred off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra     - 155 miles south/southeast of  Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia     - 200 miles west of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia     - 780 miles south/southwest of Bangkok, Thailand     - 1000 miles northwest of Jakarta, Java, Indonesia 2. The depth of the quaked ran 6.2...

Magnitude 8.1 - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA 2004 December 26 00:58:55 UTC Preliminary Earthquake Report West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/NOAA/NWS A great earthquake occurred at 00:58:55 (UTC) on Sunday, December 26, 2004. The magnitude 8.1 event has been located OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.) Magnitude 8.1 Date-Time Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 00:58:55 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 6:58:55 AM = local time at epicenter Location 3.400°N, 95.700°E Depth 40 km (24.9 miles) set by location program Region OFF THE...