MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN

[karadinart]

'Historic disaster' in Japan, 29 countries affected. US military staging ships to assist when Japan asks for aid.

Here is a video posted from gackt_army, just be warned, it's very traumatic to watch.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/japan.quake/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

Friends let me know if you are all right.

Comments

[koshien.livejournal.com]

Phones/internet/power etc down in many of the urban areas along the east coast with strict orders only to use telecoms (IF they are up) for urgent reasons only. So it may be a few hours or days before you know anything. Just have to hang on in there.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Some friends are tweeting, You and Chacha have blogged, luckily it seems that the nuclear plants shut down as they were supposed to, god it's awful to watch.

[koshien.livejournal.com]

Yeah I got tweets from Hokkaido and Tokyo this morning, but a couple from Tokyo have stopped due to being told only to use comms for urgent reasons only.

No, one of the power plants is in trouble, there are now evacuation orders in force because they can't cool it, so not out of the woods yet.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

They keep updating the news, but I have to go to the hospital soon, but they have computers there to keep up, I'm afraid it will only get worse in terms of what we hear.