Magnitude 8.9 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
 

Just wow.... 8.9 Magnitude is really big

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...11/usc0001xgp/

I don't have close relative around where it was hit... but extended family lives in Tokyo & Sendai. Gonna check up w them if they're okay

All the Japanese member here, who have family member lives in Honshu, should check up on their safety

Just got a text msg sent to me bout this... Would be good to hear from anyone from there with info on whats happening.....

My heart goes out to all the Japanese people.... Just seen so many cars with people in them get swept away...... Worst quake thats ever hit in the history of quake recording in japan the news report said...... Was such a massive tsunami surge!!!!!......

Good luck to all those effected....

Such bad stuff just after the NZ quake hit......

Prayers going out to my JDM peeps.

oh that sucks :'( my hart goes out to all of the japan. and if this trend continues around the ring (christchurch, japan with 17 days diff), the next to get hit will be north america in the next 10 days along the west coast.. i hope i am completely wrong

I hope so too and my heart goes out to the victims and their families as well.

Nadeem

Here's the news and live updates.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709598

Here's a news from my extended family (which I didn't know lol).

My aunt told me, one of my cousin (4th or 5th) I guess live in Sendai & she got several cuts from broken glasses, but no major wounds (from info from aunt, that cousin is really clumsy lol). Other than that, all my close family wasn't near honshu. My uncles usually go to Tokyo for business, but all of them have catch some cold and laying of the bed.

Seriously, prayer goes out to Honshu ppl

crazy crazy stuff.... Hasnt hit hawaii yet has it?

There's a bunch of videos on youtube on first person eye witnesses.

I'm so disappointed in human beings. The level of stupidity is ASTRONOMICAL. Read some of the comments on youtube. Terrible people.

Here's a few videos.

In a home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fUq...ature=featured

In an office building
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2xTc...ature=featured

Supermarket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9QNz...ature=featured

most of ppl in panic mode, don't know what to do. It's part of human nature. Human only can react to the things their body are trained over and over. It's same concept w self-defense. Ppl many read or watch those self-defense stuff, but unless they physically do it over and over to put it into the body, it's a waste time.

I've been watching it on the news this morning. Crazy!! Hope all of the member's family and friends in Japan are ok.

My prayer to Japanese people and my condolences to those who died. :(

well my family is mostly in tokyo but they're safe! just very chaotic as all the trains and subways are shut down, power and cell phone reception is intermittent. looks like the northeast of the country is devastated, however.