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Just had another big earthquake. 8:08am. Centered around northeast Chiba. Japanese scale M5 (weak). Update: magnitude 6.3, off the coast of northeast Chiba. M3 shaking felt far into Tokyo, and up towards Ibaraki and parts of Fukushima. Tokyo Metro has temporarily suspended all subway service...

Earthquake details: 11:32pm Magnitude 7.4, just off the coast from Sendai; smaller in strength than the March 11 magnitude 9.0 quake, but because the epicenter is closer to land, the shaking was still significant. Length of the earthquake approximately 1.5~2 minutes, could be felt well...

Makes sense. So if you hate being judged and are insecure about people being judgmental, what's important is to proactively be judgmental yourself; you know, put other people down first, so you yourself wouldn't be subject to that kind of treatment. Maybe pots and kettles in Korea are just...

Well, as a non-cocksucking American living in a foreign country for which I have deep respect, admiration and affection, I have to respectfully disagree with this assertion. Of course, there are some Americans (and here in Japan, Nigerians, Thai, Chinese, and some other races) who are complete...

IMO it's a two way street from both sides. First, you give those international students (and the like) far too little faith by assuming that all of them are incapable of judging for themselves and will automatically assume that every white male is an American douche. If you try in earnest to...

Well there are a few differences. Amoung adolescents, in America most students don't have uniforms or dress codes. Fashion is a way for girls to express their individuality, and the fashion sense that is "sold" to them (by fashion magazines and pop culture) is that of Gucci, Burberry, Fendi, and...

The safety hood is to protect their heads from smaller debris or unnecessary bumps. During an actual earthquake, the students will get under their desks (or nearby table), which would absorb most of the impact should any heavier objects fall near them. If you are out and not near a desk or...

A big difference between the Indian Ocean/Haitian quakes and the Japanese quake is that, as a highly developed country, Japanese had access to incredible amounts of technology (high quality digital and video cameras, Internet, YouTube, Twitter, etc) and coverage was so extensive that in many...

Tragic, yes. But the real tragedy is that this is far from the only story. For a good idea on the extent of the damage: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/japan-earthquake-two-weeks-later/100034/ Another tragic story...

An alternative is CCCP, which includes both MPC-HC and ffdshow (and some other commonly used components) in one simple isntallable package with relatively little configuration needed. If you happen to download a lot of anime (where the encoding and subbing communities have very high quality...

Death toll today is reported at 9,423 people. Missing or status unknown is still at a staggering 14,715 people. The town of Rikuzen-Takata-shi (in Iwate prefecture) estimates that 90% of its deaths are due to drowning. 12 days after the first earthquake, and we are still getting significant...

Here's a basic wire diagram showing you the set up necessary if you use Slingbox and a ISDB-T tuner. 423142

Slingbox alone will not work. Slingbox antenna/coax input only supports ATSC/NTSC/QAM transmission. However Japan uses ISDB-T transmission, so you need to get an ISDB-T tuner. Additionally, since Slingbox does not support HDMI-in, you will need to get an ISDB-T tuner which provides component...

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It should actually include the Search link as well (one is a dropdown, one is a hard-link). In most widely-used browsers (Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari), the forum uses javascript to generate dropdown menus for Search, Quick Links, and Forum Jump. Because of the inconsistency of HTML standards...

Latest press conference says that storage pools 1 ~ 4 are now all confirmed under 100°C, and are in safer condition than they were originally expecting. The work to connect electricity cables to building 2 is now complete, and workers will begin tomorrow to restart the cooling pumps. [Storage...

Tokyo Fire department (which has taken the task of pumping sea water into the reactor buildings) just held a press conference detailing the work that they have completed over the past two days. Due to the wreckage caused by the tsunami, it is impossible to bring in heavy equipment near the...

Death toll officially rises to 7,348. Many shelters are now reporting that cold and flu is spreading quickly. Many areas are still without steady supply of fuel for heating. More and more hospitals are reporting that patients are dying from cold, dehydration, and lack of medicine.

If you are limited to SATA-II (3gbps) and are using it primarily as a boot drive (OS files), any first-generation SandForce (SF-1200 series) drives will be fine. If you have SATA-III (6gbps), go for either the newere second-generation SandForce (SF-2500 series) drives as they become available if...

I'm not familiar with UK publications, but isn't the Daily Mail on par with other UK tabloid-style circulars? That is, they make up captions and pair them with seemingly dramatic pictures (which have nothing to do with the captions they made up), and then fill the articles with fluff to make up...

It's fine to let people draw their own conclusions, but some readers don't know how to interpret the data. 11.2μSv is not an insignificant amount by any means, but even though 11.4μSv/hr is equivalent to 100,000μSv/yr by amount, it's only when you've reached the latter that there is a...

That's great and all, but it requires radiation levels to stay at that level for an entire year before people would (statistically) show health problems. Even with the possibility of health problems from short term overexposure, the hourly radiation levels continue to go up and down. News...

Of course, it's already a bad situation, and it has the potential to get a lot worse (depending on if TEPCO really is a bunch of incompetent people), but right now it's not as bad as a number of media outlets claim it is. What we need is more people getting those reactors (and spent fuel pools)...

Since there may be some members who have trouble collecting information due to English media focusing on "doom and gloom", here are some resources. Radiation maps, showing the location and readings of radiation monitors around the Kanto area: http://goo.gl/R5OU9 http://ht.ly/4exnv...

Of course not, most of them are primarily interested in selling more papers and making more money. http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/03/17/u-k-newspaper-get-out-of-tokyo-now/

The evacuation warning is directed at US nationals in the area, not at Japanese nationals. And the wider evacuation zone is not an indication of greater risk, just that were the US presented with the same data that Japanese officials currently have, they would simply recommend the wider...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landover_Baptist_Church

They're ready, only problem is they too are nuclear powered.

Actually, the map lists nuclear power plants, and there is a power plant called "Sendai" (different kanji) in Kagoshima. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendai_Nuclear_Power_Plant And Shibuya Eggman is actually the name of a live-house (eg: a place where bands play music, not a nuclear reactor)...

Ustream (sign up and then start broadcasting); their servers can also handle significant bandwidth for redistribution. But if you get disconnected, you may have to manually reconnect. 12:52 We just got another earthquake, magnitude 6.0 off the eastern coast of Chiba. Significant shaking but...

Yes. It has since been upgraded to M6.4.

22:31 We just had a very significant aftershock. This one centered in Shizuoka (just southwest of Tokyo), M 6.0. Further aftershocks following.

I don't know about Japan specifically, but I know in some other East Asian countries, tablets are prohibited because of drug trafficking concerns. For example, in Taiwan, you can similarly only acquire iodine tablets from government sources or from hospitals with proper doctors' prescriptions...

A prayer in and of itself does not do anything. But the knowledge that people are "praying" for you (or "hoping" for your safety, "wishing" you their best) can often give people the psychological power to handle hardships. When you've lost everything else, it gives you a reason to live, knowing...

Don't read it. Those are the same kind of people who, when Katrina hit southeast America (where there is a very large Christian population), simply sat in their homes and prayed without actually donating or physically helping the victims. People like that have always existed; the only...

For anyone curious, Wikipedia is being updated with relatively accurate information on the status and timeline of events of the Fukushima-I reactors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents Additional information: Earlier today, wind patterns shifted to a westerly direction...

Certainly distasteful, but different people have different ways of dealing with trauma/shock. Better than the people on Twitter/Facebook who have spoken out against Japan, claiming that the earthquake/tsunami was payback for Pearl Harbor and/or Japan's whaling/dolphin hunts.

Yes, this was already on the table yesterday and they have decided to go ahead with the plan. Tokyo Electric and Tohoku Electric are running at more than 1000 kW under capacity (about 25% under normal operating capacity). Rolling blackouts will begin tomorrow in the Kanto and Tohoku regions and...

Be careful of fishing around the bay; helicopters have reported oil leaks (in the water) coming from the Cosmos oil refinery explosion and other sources.

14:05 Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi prefecture is now reporting abnormally high radiation levels (21 μSv). All three reactors have been shut down. Investigation and details forthcoming.

Sorry, you're right. TEPCO did indeed say microsieverts, but the news channels are being inconsistent in their reports. Seems like they can't find the μ symbol. Doesn't help that half the physics professors are talking about it in millisieverts. I'm sure you can appreciate that many of us...

Some reports of infrastructure damage (which will slow down relief efforts) coming in: 405 sections of main roads/highways across 10 prefectures 43 bridges in 3 prefectures 5 embankments in 2 prefectures 56 landslides in 6 prefectures 9 sections of railway in 3 prefectures have been damaged...

23:35 Another earthquake coming: Niigata, Koshin, Kanto, Fukushima, Hokuriku. 23:44 Another earthquake, off the coast of Iwate. Magnitude 6.1.

22:43 Futaba Hospital near Fukushima I plant has just reported that 3 patients have confirmed radiation poisoning. I didn't catch whether or not those patients were the workers who were at the plant during the afternoon explosion. In between news bulletins, many news stations are reporting...

Early reports say magnitude 6.0 at depth 40km, at 22:15, just off the cost of Fukushima (extremely close to the nuclear reactors). Edit: 22:27, yet another earthquake is occuring, off the coast of Aomori, Miyagi and Iwate.

Well, I think there's a strong possibility that the fuel rods have already been severely damaged. There may have been a limited amount of meltdown within the reaction chamber, but at this point there is no report of a catastrophic meltdown. About 30 minutes ago, a C130 military plane was in the...

BREAKING: TEPCO has now announced their findings. Explosion was not due to breach of radioactive material. They have collected readings and confirmed that radiation levels before and after the explosion have not risen. The explosion was caused by buildup of pressure around the reactor vessel...

Yes, reports are indicating radiation levels of over 1000 mSv. 1 hour of exposure to that level of radiation is equivalent to 1 year's worth of exposure to "normal amounts" of radiation. For those who are not familiar with nuclear power reactions, cesium is not a normal byproduct of a...

A guest on BBC has now speculated that the explosion may have been caused by the released of pressurized steam, rather than an explosion of the reactor containment vessel. An explosion of the containment vessel is pretty much the worst case scenario, where the core radioactive material would be...

Watching the news. TEPCO representitives say they will not comment on the cause of the explosion or the possibility of leaked radioactive material until they have collected more data; but at the same rate they refuse to confirm that there was an explosion, or which building was affected. TEPCO...