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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2011 5:59:06 GMT
Yes, I read that the quake could be felt in Bangkok and Hanoi.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2011 20:29:39 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 13, 2011 19:54:40 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 17, 2011 23:28:58 GMT
This is an informed article highlighting the lives of three women in Japan a month after the quake. Click on the text below for the full article. Also check out details of the writer at the end, who is interesting in her own right. It's now been a full month since a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake, and even more destructive tsunami, hit the eastern shore of the Tohoku region, located on the northeastern side of Honshu, the main island of the Japanese archipelago. ... What has struck me so much about this month is, despite what I thought was increasing interest in Japan over the last few years, how very little most people do know or understand about Japan ... The fact is, most of Japan, outside of the disaster-struck areas of Tohoku, people are fine for the most part. The areas to the west and south and far north of the country, including places that you may have heard of -- Sapporo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Kobe, Fukuoka -- have seen almost no physical effects at all, save for an influx of refugees from the north.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2011 5:00:40 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 15, 2011 20:22:35 GMT
Harrowing story of one man's trip after being carried out to sea by the tsunami.Personally, I feel the writer purpled up a tale that needs no embellishment. Still, this is a story that must be read. It's brilliantly illustrated, too. All images & text below from GQ. Click picture for article. Notes from a castawayAdrift, alone, with little hope of rescue, Hiromitsu Shinkawa began scribbling messages. In the order he wrote them, here are the words he thought would be his last. On March 11, I was with my wife, Yuko. My name is Hiromitsu.
I just want to report that I am still alive on the twelfth and was with my wife, Yuko, yesterday. She was born January 12 of Showa 26.
SOS
I am sorry for being unfilial.
I'm in a lot of trouble. Sorry for dying before you. Please forgive me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2011 21:59:54 GMT
Oh, I almost bought that issue of GQ yesterday and then changed my mind.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2014 21:37:55 GMT
I had never seen this video before and it is definitely one of the most horrifying with the people running to try to get away from it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2015 18:24:50 GMT
I still find myself looking at tsunami videos from time to time wondering "how fast would I have reacted?" "could I have run fast enough?" or "do you only worry about yourself when it happens?"
This video shows lots of unseen towns with various magnitudes of water and as usual leaves me rather speechless. Having grown up in hurricane country, I know that most things are rebuilt sooner or later, but the situation is rather incredible.
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