Earth Quake followed by Tsunami hits japan!

[PJCzar]

Magnitude 8.9 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
2011 March 11 05:46:23 UTC
This event has not yet been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude
8.9
Date-Time
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 05:46:23 UTC
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 02:46:23 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
38.322°N, 142.369°E
Depth
24.4 km (15.2 miles) set by location program
Region
NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances
130 km (80 miles) E of Sendai, Honshu, Japan
178 km (110 miles) E of Yamagata, Honshu, Japan
178 km (110 miles) ENE of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan
373 km (231 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 13.5 km (8.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters
NST=350, Nph=351, Dmin=416.3 km, Rmss=1.46 sec, Gp= 29°,
M-type="moment" magnitude from initial P wave (tsuboi method) (Mi/Mwp), Version=A
Source
USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID
usc0001xgp

www.shogetsu.co.jp/livecamera/index.html

30 foot wave hit the airport near the shore! 30 feet!
power is automaticly shut down and oil refinery has exploded.

Massive waves taking out EVERYTHING.
Houses are being washed inland while burning.
Its just like any movie youve seen about tsunamis.

[thetriplea]

I hope Mark is okay : [

[dvandom]

From Mark's facebook update of a few minutes ago:

"Just in case anyone's worrying, my wife's family lives very far away from the affected areas in Japan, so everyone's fine with them. Where I used to live and teach in Japan, Morika, is considerably closer, though not on the coast. Here's hoping the scale of the disaster is not at the level of the Kobe earthquake years back; my sense is that it won't be, at least not in terms of lives lost."

---Dave