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6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Fukushima, Tsunami Warning Issued
Moments ago, at 4:22am local time, a major 6.8 magnitude quake struck eastern Japan, off the Fukushima coast.
- FLASH:M6.8 QUAKE JOLTS OFF FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN, TSUNAMI ALERT
- EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING ISSUED FOR JAPAN, OFF FUKUSHIMA:JMA
- EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING ISSUED FOR JAPAN, OFF FUKUSHIMA:JMA
- TSUNAMI WARNING ISSUED AFTER JAPAN QUAKE: AP
From the USGS:
And NOAA:

So far there have been no reports of damage. Those curious can keep track of Fukushima in real time at the live webcast below:
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What could possibly go wrong now LOL
I bet those fuel rods are sloshing around just nicely in the elevated fuel ponds.
Can we just write off Japan as a total loss to humankind and just make it a no go zone for the next thousand years?
GOJIRA !!! AAAAAAAAAAGHHHH!
I see three eyed Japanese babies in the near future.
Godzilla is very very angry!
If this doesn't add 500 to the DOW I will be shocked!
As a proud liberal whose only interest is the people's well-being, I am against earthquakes and believe we should ban them. And I am 100% confident that our fearless President Obama will issue a statement against earthquakes as well. Thank you.
He could start by tearing the strings out of that accursed HAARP.
Well the Asian girls are kind of flat to begin with, I guess if they grow three or more tits it can make up for lack of size.
Krugman is gonna have to double his order of hand lotion if this keeps up.
pods
Ora noe,
vbig wiener is grlowing!
Wei Tu She Ki
Yes. Now we get to see how well they propped up that fuel rod pool at #4 that is 100 feet in the air and tilting.
I read that it was supposed to be good for a 7.0.
Everybody knows when you jostle your mixed drink, it cools faster. This is actually good news for Fookashima in particular and the Earth in general.
That's some weird science RafterMan...
Holy Sushi Batman!!
Why does God hate that country so....?
I have it on good authority that God is not on their side because God hates idiots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy0MJgnW6v4
Not God, Godzilla!
OK. no go it is.
I was there a few years ago. I felt like the invisible man.
Just in time for Typhoon Neoguri
...to wash all radio active shitsu away into the ocean. Problem solved.
I totally agree, I've always said that the truth is that Japan will become uninhabitable for centuries if not forever.
RUH RO!
a tsunami of radiated water washing back ashore. kinda funny.....since i dont live there and its exactly what the gov't of that country deserves.
Now the people know where to force the government and financial racketeers to cleanse themselves.
The Water Cure: The Japanese Bathing Ritual
The latest I hear is that Japans government has downgraded the 6.8 to a 2.3 by thier standards....so its all good...
Anyone else getting the feeling between the first tsunami, the typhoon this week and now this "someone" is seriously pissed off at Japan?
Maybe god has issues with JGBs?
Yes. "God" is mad at Japan and is trying to kill the people. Nice god you worship. What's with the flood of believers on this site lately? It's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for you.
Whoosh!
This is just for you: /sarc
<facepalm>
He didn't come with me.
I almost gave you the only up vote solely based on the picture of jerry, given their last show was 19 years ago this week.
is man a mistake God made, or is God a mistake man made?
like, hey man. thats deep
I dont know let's ask Master Cylinder what he thinks....
deep haka...
Or buying JGB's is doing god's work.
I thought that was jobbed out to Espirito Santo.
God had better watch out because Goldman doesn't like competition.
Maybe someone is trying to wake them from their fetish fairy-tales. Or maybe reality is finally smacking them in the ass...
"The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea".....
When I first read that I thought it said:
"The second angel pured out his bowel into the sea..... "
LOL
"The Good Book" indeed...
I'm not worried; I have full Faith in those GE-Designed nukular plants.
Sell VIX - buy stocks!! It's Friday, and Tuesday is right around the corner.
Tepco is probably praying for the big one. You know..........just wash your problems away.
That's a favorite meme with the world's criminals.
An earthquake and a typhoon? Goldman Sachs must be mad at Japan!
...and Paul Krugman has a hard on.
The whales strike back!
Godzilla PMS'ing
Fawk you whale!
fawk yu dolphin!
That flew over my head the first time I read it.
IT seems to have rattled the "buy" key on all the trading terminals, as about 22 minutes after the hour coincides with another buying splurge on the indices.
No problem, it's all one big frozen ice-cube now.
That map looks like a really bad orange barrel night.
I bet this throws a spanner in the TEPCO world of lies and deciet.
No. You are supposed to aim the HAARP at Russia you redneck dimwhit.
Back to camp for more training ...
Locomotive Breath
Brandi
I wonder if Abe's decision to expand the military is connected I somehow.as in needing new place to live.
ouch.
Just in time to propel the markets to a green close. How considerate.
I'm sorry. That was cynical of me. The government just wants to help the poor citizens... everyday.
A small tsunami will hit the power plants and bounce off harmlessly.
As soon as it does a fleet of Komatsu D-575A dozers will leap into action. They will push the power plants off their foundations into the sea with the stored control rods after them, and then the machine operators will commit honorable suppuku by driving their machines right into the sea after.
Power plants and all evidence, destroyed.
A tearful TEPCO executive will go on national TV saying that a huge tsunami destroyed everything and washed it all out to sea, leaving not a trace nor anything else to do at the location, so please do not worry.
My God will get you...
How many nuclear power plants are built on, or near. fault lines?
All except the ones on ships.
Most likely this is true.
one is too many
one is too many
If you did a map with monetary, property, stock, real estate, etc. bubbles - this is what it would look like - and not just in Japan.
That f*cker almost threw me out of bed
Get another boyfriend.
Now, about this earthquake ...
Nice try but that was weaker than the upcoming aftershock
You really do need a new boyfriend...
Look at all the bubbles on the NOAA graph. Where's Obama? Did he sneak off to Tokyo on our dime and pop a Magnum of Chimpagne?
Those lying douchebags in Japan need to call in Russia... ASAP and quit fuckin' around...
Its a tsunami advisory not warning.
Tsunami Forecast Region Estimated Initial
Tsunami Arrival Time Estimated
Maximum Tsunami Height
IWATE PREF. 04:50 JST 12 Jul 1 m
MIYAGI PREF. 04:50 JST 12 Jul 1 m
FUKUSHIMA PREF. 04:40 JST 12 Jul 1 m
Perhaps my first post on ZH:
"March 12th Obama should have DEMANDED that the reactors were entombed Chernobyl style. He didn't he went off to Brazil and started a war with Libya. The consequences of letting the situation deteriorate in those crucial first hours have yet to be seen, but will be tragic.
Watch the 1959 film ON THE BEACH stars Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire."
What he also did then was authorize 9 new nuclear power plants for US. 3 for Georgia, 3 for South Carolina and 3 in another state.
Exactly who the fuck is Obama to demand anything from another country? Suppose Japan just said no.
Fukushima is a threat to national security, possibly an existential threat. If there is any reason to justify the existence of a Federal Government, existential security threats such as this is definitely number one.
And since when does the US government have any authority out side the borders.
Ah, screw it if I were Japan I would just say no, come and invade us. Then Fukushima is your problem.
The sad thing is that Obama is so stupid that he probably would.
If your neighbour has a trash fire that is making your children sick, what authority do you have to do anything about it?
So do you just let your family get sick and die, or do you just abandon your home?
B.T.F.D.
R.F.Y.L.
Send Jamie Damon over there for FREE radiation treatments for his throat cancer......
He could just "blow" the reactor.
Sorry Japan, we'd really like to help you, um, save the planet, um, but we gave all our money to these parasites and they um, multiplied, and now by edict we can't educate our own children until we put them through school, and um, they don't, they just milked the tit dry.
But we'll be happy to send Hillary & Moochie over to counsel you about your social inequalities.
It's the butterfly effect. Fracking in Oklahoma + increased atmospheric CO2 always leads to earthquakes near Japanese nuclear plants.
Plus, Abe's economic policies didn't help either.
Akira will save us!
The quake was M 6.5, relatively small unless "choka-gata" (just below the ground), far at sea, and much too small to trigger a tsunami. Hardly worth the news and certainly not worth waking up. (It was 4am in the morning.) We have quakes of this size (shaking 4 on a scale of 7) once a month in Japan.
As long as you do not see M 8 and a shaking of 6+, nothing much is happening in Japan. Let's not forget that the Internet is craving for news and that almost everything is over-hyped... unless it is voluntarily under reported. Let's focus on these news, not on diluting further what's really going on. The media do that amazingly well.