Godzilla inc

[Crowley]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6900156.stm

An earthquake has struck central Japan, killing at least five people, flattening buildings and triggering a fire at a nuclear power plant.

Hundreds of people were injured when the 6.8-magnitude tremor struck the Niigata area.


End of the world, etc etc. Everyone ok?

[4letterwords]

Good thing it was in the Alabama of Japan. I doubt many people on here are in Niigata. But I hope everyone is ok.

[silentplummet]

I have a very dear friend in Niigata, I'll have you know.

[4letterwords]

Well I hope they're ok.

[JapaneseLever]

all my friends woke up, but I stayed up too late last night and slept right through it. Dammit, they all said it was a good one too.

Oh well, at least I caught the one that was last week, if I remember correctly.

[MNJetter]

I am in the most earthquake-less part of Japan. Nothing can touch me. Mwahahaha!

[japanat]

I am in the most earthquake-less part of Japan. Nothing can touch me. Mwahahaha!That's what I thought, once, too. "Hey, I live near Kobe; there hasn't been an earthquake here in forever...."

[MNJetter]

Well, the area I live in statistically gets by far the least amount of earthquake activity in all of Japan, so I wasn't kidding about that. There's been one or two since I moved here that have been strong enough for me to feel, but with the exception of the one that hit Sendai two summers ago, nothing more than a force 1. That's not even strong enough for some people to feel at all.

.....speaking of earthquakes, apparently there was just another one a couple minutes ago. But it's about the strangest-looking quake I've ever seen. On JMA's website, it looks like the epicenter was in the Japan sea, off the west coast, but the monitor centers registered the strongest quakes on the east coast. It's like it got stronger as it moved outward.

[stsparky]

Strong quake rocks Japan (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2938248.stm)

And I was worried about Jetter - heh.

[Eddie Echoplex]

I am in the most earthquake-less part of Japan. Nothing can touch me. Mwahahaha!

No bigotry (except from one old crazy guy), fresh veggies and fruit, no earthquakes... I'm beginning to think the inaka (did I wrote that right?) is not so bad, after all.

[MNJetter]

It's the good life. :hat:

You can cross off the crazy old guy, too. We found out that he's not a bigot. He's just genuinely senile.

[Pierrot le Fou]

What japanat is saying is true though. Kyoto is also supposed to be earthquake-free happy-fun-land whose only downside is the horrendous summer humidity and blistering cold wind in the winter. Yet since coming I've had 2 shindo-4, and a shindo-3, so obviously the brochure lied.

And the Hanshin earthquake, same deal -- nobody saw it coming.

Don't count on being safe. Japan is going to sink into the fucking ocean one of these days.

[4letterwords]

You mean like
http://www.sebousan.com/blog/images/cinema/nihon.jpg