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Futures Plunge On New 7.4 Magnitude Earthquake, Tsunami Alert

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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.

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Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:18 | 1145346 John Law Lives
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Some believe the Central Banks of the US, Eurozone and Japan etc. intend for there to be one primary global currency.  Some take it a step farther and believe this would be a precursor to World Government.  These really are scary times.  BenLucifer pretty much does whatever he pleases with little restraint.  I have never seen such arrogance.

BTW, plenty of people do believe in Eugenics.  Scary people.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:24 | 1145382 Ruffcut
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I tried that eugenics work-out program.

Damn near killed me.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:55 | 1145523 youALREADYknow
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Outstanding! +1.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:02 | 1145555 John Law Lives
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+1

Good one!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:17 | 1145352 dogismyth
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i'll volunteer as a sex slave but only if i get to choose

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:33 | 1145441 aheady
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Choose what?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:04 | 1145276 gall batter
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This is heartbreaking news.    

Water, water everywhere,  

Nor any drop to drink.  Coleridge

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:04 | 1145279 Jim in MN
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NHK just misspoke--Tokyo Electric Cower Pumpany--what can you say....

"TEPCO says there is no problem--repeat no problem--with the facilities at the nuclear power plants"

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:07 | 1145294 sangell
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Yes, they evacuated ALL personel to safe ground so who was it exactly who is on scene to conduct an inspection?

 

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:14 | 1145326 Drag Racer
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I heard thet too and gad to laugh hard as I heard cower punkany.. Tepco's elite cowering punks.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:18 | 1145339 Josh Randall
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Wonder how many other lackeys they have willing to take the podium and snivel after this new disaster. People of Tokyo, better get the hell off the Rock and into a country where they can start a new or ride this thing out. Sad stuff

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:37 | 1145690 Byte Me
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Coffee machine still works then Jim...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:43 | 1145722 andybev01
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"The patients condition is unchanged; he's still dead."

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:06 | 1145280 solidsteele
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Very cool EQ monitoring program FREE and 'Bug Free' :

http://www.wolton.net/equake3d.zip

 

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:07 | 1145283 John Law Lives
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Is this HAL 9000 doing its BTFD?  This was quite a sharp reversal on the selling:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EDJI+Interactive#chart1:symbol=^dji;range=1d;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:06 | 1145285 Caviar Emptor
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The scars from the flash crash and 2008 run very deep. All it takes is a one-foot tsunami to trigger deep deep fears.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:06 | 1145286 John McCloy
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All clear..Everyone back to the trading desks.

BTFD

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:20 | 1145356 Josh Randall
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++ The squid is sending that exact email to their Tokyo employees as we type 

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 13:01 | 1145792 Shell Game
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I had to feed the cats and missed TFD...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:09 | 1145292 Max Cynical
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Quick...someone check in with Larry Kudlow on his take of the situation...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:14 | 1145300 falak pema
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If those reactors burst we will have flying fish on nuclear fuel all over the pacific...Cape Horn will be full of six headed monsters...like they said in 1521...but they were dumb christians who thought the devil was behind every trick of nature...Now it man, or is it?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:12 | 1145309 solidsteele
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What are the chances that TPTB can't cool the 'Fukwrindpshit' reactor,

and decided to try and create another tsunami in order to cool the reactors?

I guess a 7.4 needs to be 7.4^10 to be effective.

 

That would explain the "we're dumping radioactive material in the ocean" in

order to hide this strategy.

 

 

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:38 | 1145460 ziggy59
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interesting thought...people cant access haarp site for awhile now..

www.haarp.alaska.edu/

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:52 | 1145511 Waterman Jim
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 another Haarp system test? 

 

ooh thats digging deep..

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:10 | 1145312 Catullus
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Bullish. Carry Unwinders press wrong button while shaking. Click Internet porn instead. Forget to repatriate life savings. Bullish

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:15 | 1145329 FlashCrash
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It is funny.....I used to trade orderflow....and now, I trade swanflow...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:14 | 1145334 99er
Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:17 | 1145341 VogonPoet
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Are there any white swans?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:27 | 1145407 Ruffcut
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I could go for a black swan. I have a black cat and dog. This would give me the matched set.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:40 | 1145462 Ethics Gradient
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No. I ate them.

They taste like golden eagle.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:15 | 1145342 Kina
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What ?

 

BREAKING NEWS: No info on abnormality at Miyagi's Onagawa nuke plant: Tohoku Electric

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:22 | 1145371 Note to self
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Short Tohoku Electric

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:19 | 1145349 Jim in MN
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TEPCO press conference:

Nine workers sheltering in seismically secure building on site.

Damaged unit control rooms are only visited once every six hours to check conditions.  Unable to carry out monitor at the moment.

Water injection is continuing by remote control. 

Tsunami advisory rather than warning at Fukushima.

Onagawa plant: Two of three external power feeds have failed.  No known change in radiation readings. 

Many gas leaks and fires on coast nearby.  Widespread water and electrical failures.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:24 | 1145376 John Law Lives
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So much for "Operation Extension Cord" saving the day.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:18 | 1145612 flattrader
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I've been watching/streaming PressTV which is the Iran English speaking new service.

Surprisingly, their coverage is often not bad re: the Nuclear Disaster.

I just saw a woman on the street interview from Korea.  Damn are they pissed about the fallout wafting over them.

You will never see this kind of thing on MSM that's for sure.

Some of the "experts" inside Japan that they've interviewed sound wholly credible and are definitely not what the Japanese Government and TEPCO want you to hear.

So, if you want other media reporting, you may get it from unlikely places.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:19 | 1145350 franzpick
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USGS marked it down to just a 7.1

Going for more tuna and salmon.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:35 | 1145443 ziggy59
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how does that work? How do they down grade a seismic graph that goes to 7.4 on many instruments? is it the same personel as the BLS? just asking..

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 13:36 | 1145949 RichardP
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The initial reading is usually from just a few recording points.  There are many recording points all over the world.  As time passes, they get data from more recording points to feed into their formula (which accounts for record-point distance from epicenter), and adjust the reported magnitude.  When they have digested the data from all recording points, they generate a final, official magnitude for the earthquake, which may be larger or smaller than the figure put out in the initial reports.  They do it this way for all earthquakes.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:18 | 1145353 Drag Racer
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Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi  prefecture looses power

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:20 | 1145357 Farcical Aquati...
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Bernanke's here to save the day!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lIEizWqs_8

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:21 | 1145366 Fantasy Planet
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"This is Tower 1, additional massive amounts of Black Swans are clear for take-off."

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:24 | 1145381 Note to self
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he he he

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:43 | 1145483 Drag Racer
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that is almost funny since there is a fire near one of the airports in the north from this latest quake.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:25 | 1145637 Hephasteus
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Black Swan squadron has consumed worm payload. Ready for crapping run.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:25 | 1145386 Kina
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Market wont tank unless the Bernanke slips on a banana skin.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:27 | 1145396 franzpick
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Warned several days ago about the new moon EQ window from around 4-1 to 4-9, and got junked.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:26 | 1145649 RmcAZ
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Yep, and the "supermoon" a couple weeks ago caused several large earthquakes too. You know, the ones everyone was shitting bricks about.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:32 | 1145404 DrLamer
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I have an explanation here:

First of all, and most of all - Japan got (and will get) the punishment for it's robotic/computer idolatry.

It was a real fun to read here on ZH questions like "I dont get it - why japaneses do not simply send a dosen of robots to fix the problem on Fukushima nuclear station?".

Second .... it was a gift right for my birthday this year. 15+ years ago I was granted a patent on a method of ... (does not matter). This method is very simple and cheap, it also reduces the risk of electric hazard in any electric device, AND reduces losses in *any* cable from 1% to 3%. I have sent a detailed explanation to the three biggest electric companies, and after that - to Sony, Matsushita etc. They all rejected it. The names of the three companies are .... yes, You guessed it right, General Electric, Toshiba and Hitachi - the makers of Fukushima nuclear plant reactors. Actually, I got a threat from a legal department of GE - after sending them a letter with my very informal response to their rejection of my cheap and simple method. I almost forgot it, but my Big Boss did not and gave me a very special gift this year right before my birthday.

Now is payback time. The japan people will now pay for computer idolatry, attempts to substitute humans by robots IN ANY ASPECT OF LIFE, for calling robots "almost human", etc.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:35 | 1145451 Note to self
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Well paint me orange and call me a turnip - is THAT what this is all about?

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:45 | 1145494 DrLamer
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The Lord Creator has His own view on this matter.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:00 | 1145544 Note to self
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Yeah - he's smokin' the planet over your infringed patent.  Got it.  He must have gotten bored helping out his favorite athlete finally go 2-4 against a curveball.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:14 | 1145569 DrLamer
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Patent is not infriged. It is simply NOT USED. It can ALSO save hundreds of human lives and health from electric shock and electric radiation each year.

It is used somewhere in Azerbaijan and Russia.

It GREATLY reduces Electromagnetic Radiation.

 

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:42 | 1145701 Drag Racer
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Electromagnetic Radiation... too classic. Hey, your epidermis is showing.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:21 | 1145626 kridkrid
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Ha! 

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:49 | 1145499 Drag Racer
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your a turnip, but at least we all 'get it' now...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:59 | 1145539 Confucious 222
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Lamer than most, indeed.

Check and see if you missed your meds last few days in all the excitement...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:32 | 1145424 Coffin Dodger
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Spidey sense is tingling - Fukushima DaiNI "no abnormalcy seen at the moment". Hmmm. Anyone got any links to current info re: DaiNI (i.e. recent sat photos)

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 13:25 | 1145912 Till Eulenspiegel
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Last picture of the day by the webcam is from 19:00 JST - someone left a couple of lights on, but else there is nothing to see (normal or abnormal or other wise)

http://pointscope01.jp/cgi-local/f1np/f1np1/imageview.cgi?mode=past_frame

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:33 | 1145431 sbenard
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Wall Street sees the entire destruction of a nation and its reversion back to Third World status as a buying opportunity!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:34 | 1145436 Sweet Chicken
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Uncle Henry auntie Em it's a twister it's a twister!!!!

Airplane reference in case you're slow.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:09 | 1145574 Jim in MN
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Tsunami warning lifted.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:17 | 1145608 quark288
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And so the BOJ gets more chances to print money.....

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:20 | 1145622 1fortheroad
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Dam earthqauke fuked up the rally man, all that pomo gone to waste

Sarc/off

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 13:12 | 1145721 Battleaxe
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Haarp website has been down for the last couple of days. Correlations have been made between Induction Magnetometer readings that were previously available from their website and the Haiti & Japan quakes. Plasma orbs seem to be correlated to haarp activity. Check out these videos:

Day before Haiti quake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0RzX3uqAls&playnext=1&list=PL32D3A90BBA583815

Two days after 9.1 Japan quake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8kgCEEJe0Y&feature=player_embedded 

Today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFd8yKLBB-0&feature=player_embedded

 

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:58 | 1145782 SavingsTherapist
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1m of water coming at you 950 km/h. No probs! I can swim!

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 13:20 | 1145894 Till Eulenspiegel
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Does anyone know the Earthquake rating for the Putzmeister pump with its 70m boom fully extended (to reach SFP of reactor #4)? A 7.4 quake should shake it quite a bit. At least more pumps should be on their way by now ...

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 14:11 | 1146079 whoopsing
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I'd stand under one during an earthquake ,they are very stable when the stability arm's are extended

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 13:30 | 1145929 Homey Da Clown
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God must be very pissed at these people.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 13:34 | 1145939 Homey Da Clown
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but seriously folks.

   

Japan nuclear plant workers evacuated following quake

TOKYO : Workers battling to control the stricken nuclear plant on Japan's northeast coast were ordered to evacuate after a 7.1-magnitude quake hit the area and a local tsunami warning was issued, operator TEPCO said on Thursday.

"After the earthquake and the tsunami warning, all the workers evacuated to a safe area. The company confirmed all the workers have cleared the plant safely," a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power said.

"We have no information immediately indicating any abnormality at Fukushima Daiichi plant," a spokesman told a press conference.

"We will release new information as it becomes available," he said.

Workers have been grappling to secure damaged reactors at the plant, which was badly hit by the massive tsunami that hit Japan's northeast on March 11.

Cooling systems were knocked out, leaving the temperature of the nuclear cores to rise and setting off a scramble to prevent a meltdown.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 13:46 | 1145980 gwar5
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Wow. Can it get any worse for Japan? Even the Sushi is not safe.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 15:41 | 1146586 jmc8888
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Instead of 'it was software in cyberspace, there was no central core"

it's

"it was HFT algos in the market space, there was central bank intervention"

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