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Futures Plunge On New 7.4 Magnitude Earthquake, Tsunami Alert

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/07/2011 10:44 -0400

ES just took a big leg lower. It is unclear if this is due to breaking news of a new 7.4 earthquake hitting Tokyo and a subsequent Tsunami alert. Then again, there may be no reason whatsoever: this is a self-aware SkyNet after all. Follow the latest developments on NHK here.

And location of the Earthquake:

Follow the latest news on NHK:

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Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:45 | 1145117 slow_roast

BTFD in PMs. Bullish for inflation.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:52 | 1145166 jus_lite_reading

HOLY MOSES!!!!!! REACTORS REACHED 5000 DEGREES AND TEPCO KEPT THAT SECRET!!!

130 KOREAN SCHOOLS CLOSED BECAUSE OF RADIATION!

http://fiatsfire.blogspot.com/2011/04/special-report-shows-fuel-in-3-rea...

Arnie Gundther said basically we're screwed!!!!!!!!!!!! BULLISH NEWS!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:57 | 1145218 Drag Racer

dude, TMI was dry for only 10-12 hrs and melted. These have been lowon water or dry for weeks. What did you expect. This stuff gets that hot in less than 1 day without water.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:06 | 1145275 d00daa

I'd wager "TEPCO KEPT THAT SECRET" is the main point of that post, not necessarily the fact that it happened.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:22 | 1145375 the mad hatter

Anyone else getting worried about the extremely bullish, BTFD sentiment?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:26 | 1145391 justbuygold

This just out !

Japanese govt raises level of earthquakes considered safe to public to level 7.5 on Richter scale. Therefore nothing to see here.....move right along

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:01 | 1145545 Drag Racer

This just out !

All tsunami warns and lerts are now lifted.

Though, the damaged reactors took a big shaking and everything fell back into place.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:05 | 1145561 Haywood Jablowme

Japanese govt raises level of earthquakes considered safe to public to level 7.5 on Richter scale. Therefore nothing to see here.....move right along

All tsunami warns and lerts are now lifted.

Though, the damaged reactors took a big shaking and everything fell back into place.

*hand claps* Encore!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 14:25 | 1146175 Cold Hand

So, an 8 is like 10 times more powerful than a 7, and a 9 is 10 times more powerful than an 8, um... so Japan just got hit with an aftershock that was 1/100 th of the big quake?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 19:16 | 1147499 Anonymouse

Is your point to belittle this earthquake? 1/80th I believe is that right fraction.

But for comparison, the Bay Area quake during the World Series in 1989 was a 6.9. The Northridge quake in 1994 was a 6.7.

The 2010 Christchurch earthquake was 7.1 and the 2011 was 6.3. Granted Japan is better prepared for earthquakes than New Zealand, but California is similar. Plus, as Christchurch showed, buildings already weakened in one quake can be destroyed by a weaker one.

A 7.1 will knock you on your butt.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:03 | 1145265 defn8Dog

But the Fukushima schoolkids headed back to school yesterday as reported by the WSJ, which now reports most stories on the level of USA Today.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:07 | 1145281 Divided States ...

Dont worry, this quake has no effect on the nuclear plants. No mention of the upcoming tsunami. Also, they make it sound like the nuclear plants never had any problems to begin with. MSM at its finest.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:25 | 1145387 fuu

Not surprising really. how much of regular media is owned by GE and Westinghouse?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:28 | 1145412 Drag Racer

basically NBC, Telemundo and Universal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_General_Electric

Fri, 04/08/2011 - 19:47 | 1152051 fuu

Add to that all things CBS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Westinghouse_CBS

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:26 | 1145389 Robot Traders Mom

And yet they evacuate the engineers at the nuclear plant, like a possible tsunami is more dangerous than the radiation they are being pounded with...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:52 | 1145176 Fish Gone Bad

This is probably bullish for radioactive iodine.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:03 | 1145261 AccreditedEYE

Larry Summers just announced this is even BETTER for their GDP.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:13 | 1145315 jus_lite_reading

It is! The people of the world will need a lot more KELP and Japan has shit loads of it. GDP should grow 50% this year alone.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:26 | 1145399 duckduckMOOSE

Mmmm....but it's radioactive Kelp.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:23 | 1145625 Yield2Greatness

At no extra charge.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:29 | 1145408 trav7777

UCB's rainwater isotope analysis is very bearish for apocalyptics. Rad levels declining markedly across the board for days now.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:42 | 1145475 malikai

What's the link for that?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:37 | 1145452 duo

You should probably supplent your diet with Mg, Ca, K, kelp, and antioxidants for cell repair. You do not want to absorb Cs/Strontium due to a Ca/Mg deficeincy.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:12 | 1145327 Clueless Economist

We need to send a few thousand Keynsian Economists to help out Japan. Doing things like cleaning up the reactors and manning the beaches watching for radioactive tsunamis.

Just keep them away from economic decisions.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:29 | 1145405 Fenlander

I've done some quick, rough calculations. It will take about 80 Keynsian economists of average human adult male size to pack the walls of the service trench of reactor number 2, slowing the rate of leakage of radioactive water into the sea. It will take about 130 more to be ground up and inserted into the 12 inch feeder pipes to give a nearly total blockage. Unfortunately, no permanent solution to the leakage is available, but this still represents the most useful thing you can do with 210 Keynsian economists.

On the other hand, it will take only one Bernank to change the laws of economics, mathematics, and indeed common sense.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:30 | 1145422 A Man without Q...

And if it doesn't work, just keep adding more Keynesian economists, eventually it will have the desired effect....

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:54 | 1145528 brandy night rocks

Hahaha, +a billion here, a billion there irony!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:24 | 1145379 covert

time to pick up a bargain before the prices get inflated again. put your capitol to work.

http://covert2.wordpress.com

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:43 | 1145119 The Axe

Shit Storm

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:59 | 1145239 stirners_ghost

"It's the shit-tectonics. When two shit-plates strike, and come together under incredible pressure, what happens, Bubbles?"

"What, Mr. Lahey?"

"Shit-quake."

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:01 | 1145251 Peterpaul

+1 for Trailer Park Boys reference

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:05 | 1145282 SilverBoy

+2 Bubbles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWNSTNwClQY

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:07 | 1145295 TheMerryPrankster

Thirty Sexy days Julian, thirty sexy days...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:08 | 1145304 Global Hunter

Ricky!!!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:57 | 1145534 brandy night rocks

I AM the liquor.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 14:00 | 1146033 HedgeCock

I need a cheese burger Mr. Lahey.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 14:04 | 1146046 HedgeCock

I need another cheese burger Mr. Lahey. (fixed the dupe)

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 18:34 | 1147324 brandy night rocks

"There's feathers hangin' out of it. That's made of an ol' blue jay!"

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:14 | 1145323 romanko

I can hear the shit-winds hollowing!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:44 | 1145120 ZeroPower

PMs down, crude down, markets dump.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:46 | 1145127 Dr. Impossible

and they wanna build a superstructure in this area in the next 10yrs?....are u kidding me

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:45 | 1145130 the not so migh...

is the tidel wave heading for Japan or California?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:48 | 1145154 Mae Kadoodie

Radioactive Tsunami?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:51 | 1145184 the not so migh...

that would be some messed up crap

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:00 | 1145243 Sudden Debt

INVASION OF THE RADIOACTIVE DOLPHINS!

PART DEUX!

I see bookdeals, I see movie rights, I SEE MERCHANDISING, I SEE MONEY TO BE MADE!!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:00 | 1145229 serotonindumptruck

Oh, my...the horror, the horror.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWLBljvEG-M&feature=related

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:14 | 1145325 jus_lite_reading

Yeah well,when I see 1/3 of the oceans die, then we know the end of the world is near.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:13 | 1145330 romanko

correction: 3 foot Tsunami.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:30 | 1145426 dukeland

Even the Pacific Ocean is rejecting and throwing back the radioactive water that TEPCO dumped into it.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:35 | 1145673 Drag Racer

small tsumani is confirmed though no real effects see on Japans coast. Japan's coast guard reports ocean level slightly raised.

Buoy roughly 150-200 miles east of epicenter went into alert mode after registering the sea rise.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=21418&type=2&seriestim...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:45 | 1145131 Fantasy Planet

Japanese govt. quake denial announcement to follo shortly.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:47 | 1145133 stoverny

the dog is still trying to shake us fleas off, but we are tenacious little SOBs

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:47 | 1145137 brian downunder

WOW, haven't these people suffered enough already.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:52 | 1145174 Sudden Debt

they sure like to rumble...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:04 | 1145274 AccreditedEYE

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:45 | 1145141 sabra1

so all that radioactive seawater is heading back inland, going to saturate the soil!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:03 | 1145264 Bob

Food for thought only.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:13 | 1145328 Atoyota

my thoughts exactly

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:45 | 1145142 Cdad

Quick...everyone should respond to the new emergency buy buying Lulu Lemon, of course. Let's go people, self involved American yoga queens wait for no one!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:53 | 1145194 Cdad

There you go...Scott Wapner of the BlowHorn [CNBC] has now called all clear on this whole earthquake thingy...so never mind about it. Thus, the market can now continue its entirely fraudulent march skywards towards its objective of complete and total annihilation of the Average Joe, that being the Ben Bernanke Wealth Effect...and eventually the birth of the New American Marxist/Banker party.

Oh...and TEPCO also just called all clear...so now we care really relax and buy Lulu with both hands. Smile people...look at the lovely unicorns!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:58 | 1145213 Cdad

Oh, and nothing makes me feel more comfortable than when Tyler Mathisen of the BlowHorn says "things have stabilized." So efficient...and within minutes...the situation totally assessed and dismissed. A true miracle...our new God...Tyler Mathisen, everybody.

What is this whole Christianity thing about anyway...when we have such efficient and benevolent beings among us here on Earth.

Man, I am craving a snort of pixie dust just now...anyone got some?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:59 | 1145238 Cdad

Oh, and apparently within minutes, the entire nuclear power group has checked in with the BlowHorn's Japanese affiliate with word that no other nuclear reactors are melting down. Again, the efficiency is simply miraculous. Why, it is still too dark to see anything, but never mind...all is just fine.

Buy Lulu...quick!

[ummmm..../sarc off....this is Marxism at work, folks. I hope everyone is comfortable with our new overlords]

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:18 | 1145348 Raynja

With these distant centralized governments you'll never even know hu yuan the war

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:21 | 1145615 SheepDog-One

Cntrl alt del, situation priced in, time to buy Lululemon hand over fist!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:01 | 1145240 primalplasma

I blame Hollywood. Every one grows up brainwashed that there is always a happy ending. It makes us fools.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:09 | 1145308 Cdad

Gordon Charlop on the floor of the NYSE...next up to throw his credibility on the bonfire of the Ponzi market that Ben Bernanke made, which will later give birth to the New American Marxist/Banker party. Says Charlop, BTFD!

We are reaching the point now when almost no one in the financial services industry, and precious few DC politicians, will be able to exit with credibility in tact. This means, of course, the entire situation is quickly coming to a head now.

What it means for the sweet little unicorns outside my window, I'm not sure.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:14 | 1145333 TheMerryPrankster

Bad news my friend, Teppco officials announced 5,000 times normal levels of Cesium 137 found in pixie dust near plant. All pixie dust farms are being decontaminated with Agent Orange and flame throwers. Go long pixie dust - BTFD=buy the f*cking dust.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:25 | 1145394 Cdad

NO! And I'm out of pixie dust. Blast!

In the meantime, the hockey helmet wearing producers over at the BlowHorn [CNBC] have cued up a clueless John Hadlock who is talking about how, darn, TEPCO was just about to hook up that cooling system at Fukushima when this next earthquake occurred.

It is not immediately clear if Mr. Hadlock has recently awakened from a coma and does not know that hooking pumps up to rubble that is too radioactive to even approach is a story already debunked. Poor Mr. Hadlock. His credibility, right along with every single clown in this new Ponz-e-conomy, is now in flames on live TV.

Oh well, my love for these two unicorns hold me through these tougher chapters of the New American Marxist/Banker party takeover of the United States.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:47 | 1145144 RobotTrader

Gold getting crushed with everything else.

Throw the baby out with the bath.

Another false breakout in gold stocks? Man, this happens over and over again.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:49 | 1145153 slow_roast

You are a complete moron. Your definition of "crushed" is akin to calling a fetus the greatest threat to humanity.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:55 | 1145201 TIMMAYYY

unless its the fetus of a rothschild...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:53 | 1145519 pods

And that right there is it!

Bravo Timm-aaaay!

pods

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:00 | 1145228 Robot Traders Mom

+1. This is a high school psych experiment to troll around and document responses.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:12 | 1145313 aheady

Ah ok. I was about to comment on how touching his compassion is.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:54 | 1145199 Confucious 222

Wow... Dow down 50 pts and silver up 2 cents at 1054EST see what you mean, PM's getting CRUSHED

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:08 | 1145303 Burnbright

well the new norm is silver goes up 50cents to a dollar a day so trading sideways is getting crushed /sarcasm.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:54 | 1145202 Bicycle Repairman

On the topic of gold, you have zero credibility. See you at $1,600 later this year.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:57 | 1145209 Stoploss

Wish i had a dime for every time i see a post like this. Was seeing these back when it was 300, when i started buying.

When the market changes, you must change with it, lest you be left in the cold, and broke..

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:06 | 1145287 fahmahbob

That you Joe Weisindork?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:42 | 1145470 Hephasteus

Ya it's down .40 cents. Oops just went back to up 1.28.

There is NO TRUTH in you at all. You are whole false and full of lies.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:22 | 1145619 SheepDog-One

'Crushed' is up 2% you flamin idiot?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:46 | 1145145 bania

can't catch a break over there.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:49 | 1145151 Drag Racer

may be 2 of them back to back though sometimes these are just double reports of the same quake. lets hope it is just the same one...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:01 | 1145248 goldfish1

MAG UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s LAT deg LON deg DEPTH km

MAP 7.4 2011/04/07 14:32:42 38.253 141.640 25.6

NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

MAP 7.4 2011/04/07 14:32:00 38.200 142.000 40.0

NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN

MAP 4.3 2011/04/07 13:41:00 31.339 -115.538 10.0

BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO

MAP 6.5 2011/04/07 13:11:25 17.431 -93.978 167.4

VERACRUZ, MEXICO

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:13 | 1145331 serotonindumptruck

The 6.5 in Veracruz is interesting.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone might be ready to pop.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:31 | 1145427 Drag Racer

USGS has revised the quake to a singe 7.1 event.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:50 | 1145157 razorthin

All clear. Algos reset.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:54 | 1145187 Mike2756

It's a screaming buying opportunity!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:49 | 1145161 Blythe

Great time to buy Gold and Silver.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:05 | 1145271 falak pema

haha nice self fulfilling avatar!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:49 | 1145162 primalplasma

If a tsunami hits Japan now, all of that radioactive water from the Pacific will wash back up on the shore. Japan will be finished.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:51 | 1145165 SilverIsKing

Mark Haines on CNBS gives his analysis on whether a tsunami is on the way...

Haines: Hmmm, let me see...Quake was 61 miles east of Sendhai and that's so close and it hasn't hit yet. Nope, no tsunami coming.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:57 | 1145207 Note to self

Umm - what's Erin wearing today?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:22 | 1145378 ThisIsBob

And while we are at it, how about a tight shot of Ms. Quick's knees, to see if the scabs are healing.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:30 | 1145414 Jay Gould Esq.

Rebecca has been demurely wearing pants since her return from her junket to the Orient with Uncle Warren. Ah, I know the next question, and shall answer it thus: pure coincidence, to be sure.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:25 | 1145384 TheMerryPrankster

Erin is resplendent in a wonderful frock from New World Industries and is accenting her delicious outfit with a witty scarf from Council on Foreign Relations, you can just catch a glimpse of her lacy slip courtesy of the Trilateral Commission and to top it all off she is wearing a simpering grin courtesy of East Coast Colleges and is bathed in a shimmering aura of stupidity and entitlement.

Teleprompters by Establishment News, content maybe copyright New World Order and/or Same Old Shit/Different Day News Services.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:30 | 1145421 Jay Gould Esq.

"..[A] simpering grin courtesy of East Coast Colleges and is bathed in a shimmering aura of stupidity and entitlement."

Extremely well done. The stuff of Dickens.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:50 | 1145168 Nedly66

More POMO plz

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:50 | 1145171 RobotTrader

Anyone here have the nerve to short LULU and OPEN here?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:54 | 1145203 slaughterer

Tilson shorted LULU and OPEN alot lower...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:58 | 1145216 Bicycle Repairman

No thanks. Making good $ in PMs. But those stocks are bubbles. Stay long LULU.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:05 | 1145266 The Axe

short CMG off of RT Short PCLN off of TZOO

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:23 | 1145629 SheepDog-One

I hope youre found strangled in a tragic leotard wardrobe malfuntion.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:50 | 1145172 Janeroo

I'm seeing 2 also... not good. If you look on the map, one is closer to the reactors.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:50 | 1145173 Drnumbers

Analysts expecting 7.1. so this is better than expected.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:59 | 1145226 bigdumbnugly

markets now re-evaluating this as bullish...

but still awaiting the revisions

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:10 | 1145302 Slin

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:10 | 1145311 obelisks

+1 LOL :-)

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:52 | 1145175 BlackholeDivestment

They said it's even a different faultline.

I lived in Japan once, love the people. This really hurts to see.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:53 | 1145178 Drag Racer

watching NHK and the live shot of the quake they showed a bright flash in the background before power goes out. 1 meter tsunami expected to hit soon

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:57 | 1145181 sbenard

Futures plunged -- for about 5 minutes!

Wall Street is oblivious to reality! We have printed prosperity now! Devastation is a (broken window fallacy) buying opportunity to them!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:51 | 1145183 JustinJapan

No more than 1m tsunami expected.

They're saying no problem at Fukushima Daichi at the moment...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:54 | 1145185 Ferg .

Intraday BTFD crowd are already swooping in .

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:53 | 1145186 goldfish1

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:55 | 1145192 High Plains Drifter

http://newamericamedia.org/2011/04/is-japans-elite-hiding-a-weapons-prog...

secret japanese weapons program? hmmm? they tried to be cute and look what it cost them. fools.........

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:10 | 1145579 LFMayor

so they finally built the MechaGodzilla? Or was it the Space Battleship Yamato?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:39 | 1145691 andybev01

Holy crap!; Star Blazers. I watched that every day after school on 'Captain Cosmic' (KTVU, Oakland CA.)

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:55 | 1145200 GFORCE

Who you gonna call? Plunge protection.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:58 | 1145214 max2205

Wonder if those spy 130 puts got covered

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:59 | 1145221 goldinpenguin

do fuel rods float?

if the tsunami seeps the highly radioactive water away the workers won't have to worry about stepping in the hot puddles

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/crabmonsters/

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:57 | 1145222 Jay Gould Esq.

Russell 36,000 shall not be denied.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:57 | 1145223 Jason T

our sympathies. Very sad and tragic.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 10:59 | 1145227 gordengeko

Also a 6.5 today in veracruz, mexico. Oh it was at 9:11am this morning too. Coutesy of my handy little earthquake app, via android. Fuck apple

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:00 | 1145244 Note to self

So seriously - how long can it be before California gets nailed?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:04 | 1145255 gordengeko

only a 4.3 in baja today. New Madrid next?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:08 | 1145290 Mike2756

Another swarm off of PR, too.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/caribbean/webpages/1918prindex.html

http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/staffpages/utenbrink/my%20publications/Puerto_Rico_slide.pdf

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:08 | 1145301 gordengeko

I must add that the mexcio quake was 105 miles deep, the japan quake was 15.9 miles deep. Real time updates on natural disasters unfortunately can lead to increased speculation on equities. Say hello again to 21 century (old) technology.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:19 | 1145359 Mike2756

It wasn't too far away from this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chich%C3%B3n

Also, Santa Maria and Fuego in Guatemala are active.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:11 | 1145306 flattrader

Just read the wikipedia entry on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant on the CA coast.

It will scare the crap outta ya.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:05 | 1145260 Mike2756

That's the one i was looking at, the last 7.+ was in 1995 (7.2), before that, 1914 (7.5) and 1902 (8.4).

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:14 | 1145335 BlackholeDivestment

Things are getting stranger by the day, and to think, it will be perfect time this year on 911. From Papa Bush's 9.11.1991 New World Order Speech to 9.11.01 and this year will be 9.11.011 ...looks like a Rahm 10 year pattern just in time for the 2012 pre and post earth affects combined with Chairsatan's demonic derivative market beast.

So now they say it's 2 earthquakes, a double 7.4???

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 13:04 | 1145806 Note to self

Yeah - and there's like a comet coming or something. Seriously. Jesus H. W. Christ!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:01 | 1145233 stoverny

just buy the dip

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:01 | 1145234 youALREADYknow

So radioactive water is likely to come onshore in a 3 foot wave?

You almost can't make this stuff up. It gets worse and worse.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:01 | 1145250 bigdumbnugly

maybe with a little migrating oil and whatnot from the gulf mixed in.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:10 | 1145298 Bob

CNN is predicting a 2 meter wave.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:01 | 1145237 brian downunder

They're saying no problem at Fukushima Daichi at the moment...

that's because it's totally fucked already

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:01 | 1145252 Note to self

Really. No problem compared to what?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:19 | 1145362 Ruffcut

Yep, no new problems, just the same ole same ole stuff.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:01 | 1145246 dogismyth

HERE'S SOME GASOLINE FOR THE FIRE!!

http://newamericamedia.org/2011/04/is-japans-elite-hiding-a-weapons-prog...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:04 | 1145256 TIMMAYYY

so thats what stuxnet was after...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:03 | 1145247 Hondo

The stupidity of markets will believe that Central Banks and Governments have their interest at the highest priority and will therefore print to make thing alright........at least for them.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:02 | 1145258 Marge N. Callz

It's not an earthquake...It's Godzilla!!!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:03 | 1145262 majia

Arnie Gunderson stated this morning that a central (but censored) concern of the NRC is the reactor buildings collapsing in a large aftershock, producing re-criticality

http://www.fairewinds.com/content/closing-ranks-nrc-nuclear-industry-and-tepco-are-limiting-flow-information

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:06 | 1145263 bullchit