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Japan Earthquake - March 11th 2011 - 5:46am EST.
I am going to be updating this thread throughout the next few days. I will be updating the following.

1. Death Toll
   
2. Missing toll
   
3. Primary effects
   
4. Secondary effects
   

'The biggest quake Japan has seen since records began' - Australian Earthquake specialists

Japan has been receiving minor earthquakes for the past couple of weeks, and no-one has heard of these because there not 'big'. The cause of all these earthquakes is that Japan sits on top of the worlds 3 biggest tectonic plates, which are constantly moving.

The Death toll
Day 1: 11th March - 300+
Day 1: 11th March - 7pm (GMT+00) 1,000+
Day 1: 11th March - 8:55 (GMT+00) 1,200+
Day 2: 12th March - 7:55am (GMT+00) 1,500+
Day 3: 13th March - 9:01am (GMT+00) 10,000 feared
Day 4: 14th March - 9:35am (GMT+00) 10,000 feared
The Missing toll
Day 1: 11th March - 80,000
Day 2: 12th March - 80,000+
Day 3: 13th March - 80,000+
Day 4: 14th March - 80,000+

Q&A
What happened?
At around about 5:45am (EST Timezone) a earthquake struck Japan hitting 8.9 on earthquake scales. The shock of the earthquake was more than 8,000 times more powerful than the current New Zealand earthquakes. There has been a confirmed death toll from the Earthquake in Sendai, its currently at 30.

So what, Japan always has earthquakes?
Yes, Japan are always having 'minor' earthquakes which leaves no damage at all, because the buildings are designed to 'move' around when an earthquake has hit. But this time, the epicenter (center of the earthquake) was out at sea. Meaning that one of the surround tectonic plates has moved under another plate, causing a massive rise in sea level.

Wow, a rise in sea level hows that going to effect people?
Firstly, a massive amount of water is lifted 5-10 meters higher than it usually is, and is forced towards the shore and secondly some water is 'sucked' into the crack.

Ok, so a little bit of water was pushed towards the land, and what?
The water that was 'sucked' into the crack out at sea is then 'spat' out of the hole and is added to the 10-20 meter high waves that are heading into shore. This may not seem bad, but when the water that was forced into shore gets closer to land, the momentum speeds up as is gets closer. But when the water was sucked into the crack, the water that was on the coast of Japan was sucked out, attracting tonnes of attention, Children and adults were amazed by this and they headed out to see what the sea had left behind.

So what happens to all the people then?
Well, the sea then heads back into shore with double the speed and nearly two times the height of a normal wave. It then hits the shore and causes mass destruction taking all the Children's and adults lives.

Were does the sea go?
The sea then heads into shore and takes out everything in its path. Anything that is in its path is either crumpled and destroyed or carried along with the water. This is were most of the deaths occur, due to people being trapped inside their homes or cars.

Does the water go back out?
No, the water doesn't go back out, it will keep on moving towards major cities. Once the water loses its momentum it stops and stays in one spot waiting to be moved.

How does the water 'move' ?
Its will eventually evaporate and turn back into rain and end back up in the sea. Or it will be moved industrially via machines and vehicles.

A image to show, the how far the shock went through Japan
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Primary effects (instantly after)
>Buildings collapsed
>Tsunami
>Electric lines fall

Secondary effects (the next couple of days)
> Higher death toll
> Higher missing people toll
> Flooding
> Heavy rainfall
> Water disease
> Starvation
> Nuclear 'meltdown' feared
> 18,000 of Japan's Self-Defence forces are helping around 'hit' areas.
> Small nuclear explosion
> 215,000 people have fled their homes.
TBC within the next couple of days (To be confirmed)

Big news headlines
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Recent twitter 'tweets'
'ABC's Christiane Amanpour tweets: "Coolant for compromised nuclear plant in #Japan is simply water. Diesel generators sent in to get water pumps running." '

'Some reports from local US media of the tsunami's arrival on the US West Coast: Joe Vazquez from CBS5 tweets: "Second tsunami surge now hitting Santa Cruz. CBS5 reporting a dozen or so sunken boats. County spokesman says at least $2m damage." KGO Radio tweets: "Crescent City OES: All docks are gone after first surge, 35 boats crushed, water starting to fill harbor parking lot." '

Ben Hentschel in Tokyo tweets: "can't sleep. earthquakes the whole night... its 4:30am right now... just can't close my eyes"

'The Pope has said he is 'saddened' by the destruction the quake has caused' [/u]

'CNN correspondent Kyung Lah tweets: "I've gone 3 miles in 3 hours. Seriously. This is how bad it is in Tokyo right now." '

' President Obama is 'heartbroken' from the Japanese quakes ' [/u]

This will be updated by me or fellow News staff and Moderators.

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12th March 2011

It is now feared that there will be a nuclear meltdown in the nuclear power plants Fukushima. Japan is fearing the worse, and preparing for the worst scenario. There are 3 power plants on the East coast of Japan, were the Tsunami/Earthquake has hit the worst. Cesium, a form of nuclear energy has said to of been leaked into the water supply, this is yet to be confirmed.
Heres an image of the 3 Nuclear Plants on the East side of Japan
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More water hits Japanese coast.
3 Meter high water is still scheduled to hit the Eastern-Japanese coast.

Nuclear blast
There has been a confirmed leak of a radioactive substance.
There has been a 12 mile spread of it all ready.
The Government has CONFIRMED this.

Airport
The Tokyo airport is now open, flights are only leaving. No passengers are being taken to Japan.

Bodies found
300-400 bodies have been found by Japanese forces. (Still being confirmed)

Petrol stations
30 minutes after the Tsunami hit, cars piled to the petrol stations with lines of 20-30 cars all going for one pump. This continued through-out the night, and most petrol stations have now closed as Petrol has now run out.

Eastern-Coast announcement
People are being told to get to high ground, as another Tsunami is feared.

After shock
a 6.0 scaled after shock has occurred, and two more are expected.

Uk aid team leaves England for Tokyo
59 searchers and 4 Medically trained Aiders.
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Nuclear Radiation area
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Todays Twitter Updates - 12th March 2011
tlaszuk in Japan tweets: "I know people that walked nearly 30km home last night!"

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March 13th Updated

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Partial meltdown at a second reactor.
As the cool effect has failed, another meltdown in a second reactor

Tsunami warning lifted
Tsunami warning lifted after 3 days.

15th March 2011
Radiation from Japan's quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has reached harmful levels, the government says.

The warning comes after the plant was rocked by a third blast, which appears to have damaged one of the reactors' containment systems for the first time, if breached, more serious radioactive substances will be sent out into the air.
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I could add the multi-page. But new comers wouldn't know how to use it.

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Very nice post Treyarch, keep up the skills.

Maybe get this in there too :p



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I guess Shep does not support Japan . Anyways thanks for the thread. :y:

Nice try. :p

Hum good thread, really well done. Between I wish you didn't have to make something like this.

We can't do anything to help Japan

Yes! Thanks for this
Haha nice one 420 :y:

Good luck to them, hope it finishes.

Well layed out! I feel sorry for Japan and people who have lost their lives.