Thread: massive earthquake has just hit japan

@boo wills

very glad to hear your good lady is ok m8

not sure if you or your workmates/mates/friends etc know about googles website to help track people caught up in this awful disaster........ here it is for you (and any others reading this) to pass on, hope it helps

Google Person Finder: 2011 Japan Earthquake

prayers and thoughts to all those effected.

hey everyone, just talked to my dad and grandparents who live in yokohama and chiba prefecture;

my dad can see the oil refinery fire from across tokyo bay in yokohama from chiba, and they've taken precautions in chiba and most of the northern prefectures by cutting out all electricity, gas, and water lines until these after shocks stop;

yokohama is running normally except for the trains) and apparently since everyone can't go home everyones going out on the town drinking; the gov't have asked all schools in japan to remain open in case people need to over night in the schools until the morning, expecting trains to start running tokyo and south within the next 24-36 hours;


however, I also talked toone of my friends in Sendai, and his uncle is stuck at the airport and flooded;

for those of you who have loved ones or friends in Japan, I suggest that YOU DO NOT CALL THEM FROM OUTSIDE OF THE COUNTRY as the Japanese have shut down phone lines from outside the country in case of emergency; for those of you who are looking for people in japan, the suggestion at the moment is STRICTLY THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES


thanks to everyone who's sent me a PM message with their thoughts and prayers for my family;

@boo wills my thoughts are with you mate, Ive been in Japan before for the earthquakes and I shit myself when its a 6.5, cant imagine what several aboce that in the course of hours is... Im hearin there has been 100 earthquakes across Japan today in total...


kinda makes you think 2012 might actually happen, hey boys? Oh well, at least we'll win the European Cup before it happens~!

@T.K. Massive : Glad to hear your family is alright as well

Originally Posted by SolMed411

@T.K. Massive : Glad to hear your family is alright as well

yah u can imagine, im runnin around like a headless chicken tryin to get hold of ppl in japan and when i do my dad tells me hes going to go to a kareoke bar and get drunk with his buddies..


i almost reached through the fookin phone to smack him one for not gettin back to us lol. w*nker.

Originally Posted by T.K. Massive

yah u can imagine, im runnin around like a headless chicken tryin to get hold of ppl in japan and when i do my dad tells me hes going to go to a kareoke bar and get drunk with his buddies..


i almost reached through the fookin phone to smack him one for not gettin back to us lol. w*nker.

Sounds like something I'd do in a similar situation, haha

Originally Posted by T.K. Massive

yah u can imagine, im runnin around like a headless chicken tryin to get hold of ppl in japan and when i do my dad tells me hes going to go to a kareoke bar and get drunk with his buddies..

It's good to hear stories like this coming through. Put's a strange smile on your face. Massive earthquake, can't get home, what to do, karaoke!!

And how can it take only 24h to get the trains up and running after an 8.9mag earthquake? Here it'd take 8 months after a 1.2!!

Originally Posted by Park Lane Yido

It's good to hear stories like this coming through. Put's a strange smile on your face. Massive earthquake, can't get home, what to do, karaoke!!

And how can it take only 24h to get the trains up and running after an 8.9mag earthquake? Here it'd take 8 months after a 1.2!!

Guess when you have enough of them, it's like clockwork

Originally Posted by SolMed411

Guess when you have enough of them, it's like clockwork

The employees of the national lines (Japan Rail) and the metro systems have to walk along all the tracks in japan and make sure that none of them are cracked;


one positive thing about the japanese, were the most earth quake ready country in the world.

Originally Posted by T.K. Massive

The employees of the national lines (Japan Rail) and the metro systems have to walk along all the tracks in japan and make sure that none of them are cracked;


one positive thing about the japanese, were the most earth quake ready country in the world.

Ain't it the truth, my friend

I have been watching Sky News since ive been up , and it sickens me seeing people taking the piss on facebook already....

Hope anyone on here with family or friends are ok , and i hope they are all ok and safe.

60 Deaths now , 54 missing .... but with Tsunami's still due elsewhere , i do not think this is the end of it.

just want to say a quick thanks to everyone who sent me a PM to wish their thoughts and prayers for my family who are in japan; its all massively appreciated, im looking to fly over ASAP (emailed the red cross as well) to help out with the relief effort.

Originally Posted by T.K. Massive

just want to say a quick thanks to everyone who sent me a PM to wish their thoughts and prayers for my family who are in japan; its all massively appreciated, im looking to fly over ASAP (emailed the red cross as well) to help out with the relief effort.

Best of luck man, good stuff