Japan Tsunami/Earthquake: More Before and After Pictures
March 13th, 2011Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Update for Sunday, March 13
March 13th, 2011A few more quick updates on the aftermath of the Sendai earthquake/tsunami:
More dramatic footage of the tsunami coming in. There’s one building that the water goes up against, and then through, and then, in a matter of about 10 seconds since the wave hit, the building is gone.
Includes some of the above, and a lot more besides, off Japanese TV:
Before and After aerial footage:
Helicopter rescue footage:
The tsunami even caught the Japanese Air Force unaware, which a number of (I think) F-16s picked up and carried into buildings or soaked with mud:
Interesting video from 2010 explaining Japanese preparation for earthquakes and tsunamis:
Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Update for Saturday Morning, March 12, 2011
March 12th, 2011Some quick Sendai earthquake/tsunami updates:
Up-close footage of the tsunami coming into the city I haven’t seen before:
Close footage of the tsunami surge moving into a city:
More close tsunami footage:
More Sendai aftermath footage:
Some cognitive dissonance in this Russia Today video: The footage is mainly the burning natural gas plant, while the voiceover discusses the nuclear plant failsafe issues:
More burning natural gas footage, along with a discussion of other nation’s tsunami preparations:
For other videos I’ve put up from the earthquake/tsunami, start here or just go scrolling back through the videos I’ve put up the last couple of days.
Howard Waldrop and I have to review Battle: Los Angeles for Locus Online, so between that and my usual Saturday obligations, I’m not sure if I’ll have time to do too many more updates today.
And Still More Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Upadates
March 11th, 2011My most recent post on the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is here.
Some more news tidbits on the Sendai earthquake/tsunami.
Dawn just broke over there. Here’s footage of the aftermath:
A video of the massive whirlpool formed off the coast in the wake of the tsunami:
(If you know of a better video not recorded off a camera aimed at a TV, let me know.)
And finally, a much-needed moment of levity. I LOLed…
My earlier posts for earthquake/video footage can be found here, here, and here
Still More Video From the Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami
March 11th, 2011A few more videos. Not a lot of context for some of these, so I can’t tell if they’re from Sendai or someplace else.
This provides a scary, up-close demonstration of how fast the tsunami came in:
Japanese office workers run as bits of building start falling around them:
There’s a reason they call it the Ring of Fire: The quake has activated several regional volcanos:
It’s almost like playing Sim City, where you inflict all the disasters (earthquake, flood, volcano, monster) on the city at once…
Japan Earthquake News Update
March 11th, 2011The current news, as near as I can gather:
More Videos
A grocery store during the quake. Don’t know us this is Sendai, Tokyo or somewhere else:
The Ichihara oil refinery on fire:
The tsunami coming in:
More tsunami flood footage:
Still more:
Pictures From the Japanese Earthquake
March 11th, 2011Correction: As the commenter below notes, this picture is from the 1995 Kobe earthquake, not today’s quake.
This one is particularly scary:
The apartment buildings behind it seem intact. Maybe the tsunami surge tossed a ship into the highway.
(Hat tip: Instapundit.)
8.9 Earthquake, Tsunami Hits Japan
March 11th, 2011The quake hit at 2:46 p.m local time about 230 miles off the coast of northern Japan near Sendai. A Wikipedia entry is already up, and they’re calling it the largest earthquake to hit Japan in recorded history. It looks pretty bad, although thankfully not “sink into the sea” bad.
But it looks bad enough:
This CNN story also has embedded footage of the tsunami coming inland carrying debris, boats and burning houses with it.
This NNK report is saying the tsunami waves were 10 meters high.
Compilation of live quake footage:
Here’s footage of the tsunami inundating a Japanese airport:
If there’s one comfort in this, Japan is very good at earthquake and tsunami preparation. If something this big hit, say, Haiti, just about everything on the island would be gone.
Bruce Sterling Donates Books and Papers to the Ransom Center
March 10th, 2011Including the manuscript for The Difference Engine, among others. I knew he was planning to do this, since he talked about it several years ago when I went over to his house to buy some books from him.
The Penniless Shakespeare Scholar
March 10th, 2011This story of an itinerant Shakespeare scholar with no job and no fixed address, who lived in a succession of homes by the kindness of strangers, is fascinating reading. It also reminds me, ever so slightly, of someone I know…