Hopefully, yes. The Japanese have done a wonderful job of anticipating this kind of scenario to the best of their ability!
ok, cnn was fishing for apocalyptic reasons for catastrophes coming "thick and fast". their scientists (actual scientists) say there is no pattern and all is normal.
Look at those buildings sway in Tokyo! Their building code works. Great engineering.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJzdtzl6KY
They are the most prepared country in the world for earthquakes and tsunami's. The only country to have a national tsunami warning system and their earthquake preparedness is second to none. Unfortunately, they weren't prepared for a 8.9 earthquake.
I read how the US was trying to develop a tsunami warning system but it's budget was cut.
The U.S. operates the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, or something like that, that is based in Hawaii and Alaska. Heard something about it earlier today on one of the news channels. I think what they said was that the system itself was an "International Effort" but it sounded like it was mostly built by the U.S. and Japan. I honestly wasn't listening all that well because I was at work and was supposed to be working. LOL.
That's just amazing, does California have building codes like that? I would shit my pants if i were in that buliding though.
Yup... PTWC. They monitor a bunch of seismographs and have bouys stationed all around the Pacific.
The seismographs alert them to an event (since Dave can't stay awake 24/7 to alert them of night time events) and the bouys detect and measure any pressure waves in the ocean generated by the earth quakes. It works pretty well. The early bouy measurements were about 3'. Applying that data to what they know about the various costal variations they can usually predict, within reason (albeit with a significant margin of error), how big a wave will be when it lands.
And yeah, cutting funding for this system would be a bad idea and kill people.
The bad things is though that since we have so many ghetto people here, it wouldn't go as well as it is in Japan since all the ghetto people would loot everything.
It's sad that I think it's odd that people are calmly standing in line to receive supplies instead of breaking into electronic stores and stealing tvs.
It's sad that I think it's odd that people are calmly standing in line to receive supplies instead of breaking into electronic stores and stealing tvs.
I would not have thought that it would be THAT spread out though (hours later). Could be wrong. The initial earthquake that caused the seafloor uplift that resulted in the tsunami lasted about 2 mins. None of the aftershocks produced a tsunami as far as I know.
I swear...if I get one more email from dumbasses I know saying this was "karma" because of Japan bombing Pearl Harbor I'm going to lose it and start driving to their houses to punch them in the dick.
Gotta love political posturing. And I'm talking about the fact that this is even an article, not the proposed AND DEFEATED budget cuts.
They had some excellent footage taken by folks with their cameras...the damage and devastation is shocking...and it's mesmerizing. I have a hard time turning it off!
I only hope we don't see pics like this one from the 2004 tsunami:
NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH!
http://www.whodah.com/albums/BoomerD/ajy.jpg
That is a lot of bloated corpses. Damn.