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[gogetta]

And I wonder what's going to happen in the Pacific Ring of Fire now.. Seems like the plates are on the move again.

I really don't want to know. I live on a tiny ass island and we're in the middle of it all. We're pretty much done if we ever get hit by a tsunami like that that hit Japan.. or any tsunami really. I can only hope our reefs never fail us.

[Waser Lave]

And I wonder what's going to happen in the Pacific Ring of Fire now.. Seems like the plates are on the move again.

All tectonic plates are moving all of the time.

[Adina]

To top off the unfortunate news that many people have died due to the tsunami, people have started a rumour on the internet that the creator of Pokemon has died. My friends status on Facebook said R.I.P Satoshi Tajiri, and I was like hell naw.

Either way, this is tragic. I got to school yesterday and everyone asked me if I heard about Japan but I didn't since I don't watch the news. Then in one of my classes we just sat there watching the news to keep updated. It's so fucked up.

[Abradix]

Then in one of my classes we just sat there watching the news to keep updated.

Teacher without a lesson plan.

[ShadowLink64]

To top off the unfortunate news that many people have died due to the tsunami, people have started a rumour on the internet that the creator of Pokemon has died. My friends status on Facebook said R.I.P Satoshi Tajiri, and I was like hell naw.

Yeah, I looked this up and found absolutely nothing to back it up, so I just ignored it. Too bad other people can't do that.

[Sweeney]

Yeah, I looked this up and found absolutely nothing to back it up, so I just ignored it. Too bad other people can't do that.

Nintendo have put out an announcement declaring the rumour false.

[Adina]

Nintendo have put out an announcement declaring the rumour false.

Thank god. There were too many people whining and bitching on Twitter about how the creator of their childhood has died.
Pokemon is great, I must admit, but to go as far as saying it was the creation of your childhood? Really?

[Fresca]

I also heard that the creator of Hello Kitty died, but there has been no evidence of that one way or the other. Tbh it wouldn't make her death any worse for me knowing that she created Hello Kitty, but the loss of life in Japan is so astounding right now. So sad.

[Ladida]

All tectonic plates are moving all of the time.

True, there're quakes every day, and we won't feel most because they're way inside the earth or in the ocean. I should've been more specific and said "It looks like the plates that can affect us in catastrophic proportions are making themselves known again"

[AyoForYayo]

To top off the unfortunate news that many people have died due to the tsunami, people have started a rumour on the internet that the creator of Pokemon has died. My friends status on Facebook said R.I.P Satoshi Tajiri, and I was like hell naw.

Either way, this is tragic. I got to school yesterday and everyone asked me if I heard about Japan but I didn't since I don't watch the news. Then in one of my classes we just sat there watching the news to keep updated. It's so fucked up.

Ha
I remember during the other huge tsunami there was a rumor going around that John Basedow or however you spell his name died in the tsunami..

[Narna]

I have an Uncle trapped in a subway, just got out today...

[DanDoesWork]

Well i have no freaking clue what happened to my uncle who lives there. No phones calls yet. grrr my mom is getting really worried ;/ as for the quakes man the videos on the internet are just scary enough

[Abradix]

I talked to my fiance after the quake... But then that reactor went up and she disappeared. I'm trying to wait before I freak out... Maybe there was an evacuation or something.

[Ladida]

I talked to my fiance after the quake... But then that reactor went up and she disappeared. I'm trying to wait before I freak out... Maybe there was an evacuation or something.

Well the areas around the plants were evacuated. Does she live around there? It also seems as though the different forms of communication have gone down in those parts. If she was ok after the earthquake, she probably still is, just not somewhere where she can get in touch with you. Hang in there.

[Bubbly]

My bro's in Japan and luckily his place wasn't affected.

Now my parents are freaking like crazy because of the radiation... when few days back, they asked him to take next Tuesday's flight because this Sunday's flight was too expensive and shit.
& now they're trying to get him to book an earlier flight and we can't even get in touch with him.

[Ladida]

My bro's in Japan and luckily his place wasn't affected.

Now my parents are freaking like crazy because of the radiation... when few days back, they asked him to take next Tuesday's flight because this Sunday's flight was too expensive and shit.
& now they're trying to get him to book an earlier flight and we can't even get in touch with him.

That's pretty scary.. Hopefully he hasn't been exposed too much to it. All the best, and I hope you hear from him soon.

[redlion]

From what I saw on Rachel Maddow tonight, the US government has finally started assessing the situation separately from the Japanese government. She made it sound like we were quoting almost word for word their press releases, just dubbed into english. Apparently, you give the US bureaucracy a few days to crank the numbers, and all of a sudden we're experts on everything. If it affects enough people, some Sec is gonna fly in and 'appraise the situation' before the president lays down the law. Shit, the US government will engineer rice farming in China, cure their drought ridden crops, just so we can keep outsourcing shitty jobs to them.

Anyways, so the reactors aren't even the main problems. The main problem from what Rachel said was the 100 tons of spent fuel rods sitting in a cooling pool. An empty cooling pool. So those can melt, explode, and irradiate their surroundings, not necessarily in that order. But the possibility increases as we continue dicking around on recovery efforts.

[Bubbly]

That's pretty scary.. Hopefully he hasn't been exposed too much to it. All the best, and I hope you hear from him soon.

IKR?
We just heard back from him few hours ago. Apparently their electricity supply got cut, since they have electricity shortage.

[chaoprokia]

My Fren in Tokyo mail about the situation where after shocks still hasn't cool down yet and there no food in super market.