scouser 4 Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Hey, just thought I'd spread the word this week every night at 10pm there is a documentary about "big quakes". Last night was 1964 Alaska. Friggin scary it was. Tonight is Chile (?). Then 3 more nights. History Channel, 10pm if you're interested. Link to post Share on other sites
Mishell 0 Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 I've been watching them, scary stories. Chile really went through a hell of a time. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 There was a short 'special' on Japanese TV the other night about the next Tokai/Nankai earthquake. First it will shake everything like a bastard, knocking moving shinkansens off their tracks, spraying glass and cladding from the skyscrapers, and collapsing the old shitamachi buildings. Then everything will catch fire, including the 400 or so petrol storage tanks in the bay. Next the tsunami will come roaring into the bays, inundating the coastal nuclear power stations and releasing clouds of carcinogenic steam. "Itsudemo okitemo okashikunai", they kept saying. Roughly translated as "It won't be very funny whenever it happens". Yes, I think so. Link to post Share on other sites
sanjo 2 Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Don't know if I'm quite ready for all that Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Saw the one last night on Chile. Crazy Link to post Share on other sites
joshnii 2 Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 Not very scary sanjo - in fact I've taped them, will bring them round at the weekend if you want Link to post Share on other sites
HoTRoD 2 Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 I'm watching these too, I never knew about the Alaska and Chile ones very interesting. I wonder what tonights is about. Link to post Share on other sites
HoTRoD 2 Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 I just looked - tonight is about tsunami Link to post Share on other sites
sakebomb 0 Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 This study seems pretty scary. Tokyo rated most vulnerable city in world to disasters, attack. Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 07:26 JST BERLIN — Tokyo, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami lead a world list of urban areas that could suffer catastrophic losses in lives and property from earthquakes, flooding, tsunamis or terrorism, the world's largest reinsurance company said in a report Tuesday. Megacities, with 10 million or more inhabitants, "are exposed to all the classic risks, but their exposure and vulnerability are disproportionate," Munich Re wrote in a special study published Tuesday. "They create risks of new dimensions — megarisks. Conurbations in coastal areas could be threatened by tsunamis, for example. Tokyo and Miami are instances of megacities in areas with major earthquake and hurricane exposures respectively," said board member Stefan Heyd. Munich Re urged governments and urban planners to take disaster risks more fully into account when approving sites for development, and to take more preventive measures. Munich Re gave Tokyo the top rating on its list of vulnerable megacities, saying it combined huge population with vulnerability to volcanic eruption, earthquakes, tropical storms, tsunamis and flooding. With a risk index of 710, the greater Tokyo area and its 35 million inhabitants were far ahead of No. 2, the San Francisco Bay area, which rated 167, mainly due to Tokyo's high risk of multiple disasters, its huge population and roughly 40% share of the country's economy. Los Angeles rated 100. The U.S. cities were rated riskier than more heavily populated areas such as Mexico City — also at high risk of earthquakes — because the amount of economic loss was judged to be potentially greater. The study was prepared for a U.N. conference on disaster reduction Jan 18-22 in Kobe — which suffered what the report said was the most expensive natural disaster ever, a 1995 earthquake that took 6,000 lives and caused some $100 billion in damage. Munich Re has been documenting and analysing natural disasters for the past 30 years and publishes an authoritative annual "natural catastrophe" report at the end of each year. (Wire reports) Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 I think Japan will probably be a better sort of country once Tokyo is all but wiped off the map... Link to post Share on other sites
IIIII 2 Posted January 14, 2005 Share Posted January 14, 2005 What actually is the latest pop of Tokyo? (I just googled and the results varied enormously) Link to post Share on other sites
IIIII 2 Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 I am just watching one of those "loud" "sensationalism" talent-strewn "documentaries" on the tv called "The next big earthquake is coming" or something as serious as that. The set the talent are sitting on is basically a representation of destroyed Tokyo. This one guy - and he seemed pretty valid amongst all the hype - said that he predicted the Niigata one because of the volcanoes and "quiet period" for earthquakes in the region just before it. Said that the Tokyo one is on it's way in +-5 years. (So that'll be plus I presume) It has had it's interesting moments, but I wish they'd get rid of the constant "movie music" and huge words like "YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!" on the screen every few minutes. Link to post Share on other sites
DokiDokiWakuWaku 0 Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 Saw that one too. Very dramatic music. Quote: "Itsudemo okitemo okashikunai", they kept saying. They kept saying the same on this one too. Link to post Share on other sites
wakaran 1 Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 Theres yet another very similar sounding program just starting on the tv now (dont know channel name but one of the main ones, not satellite) Link to post Share on other sites
scoobydoo 0 Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 All the rage at the moment. Link to post Share on other sites
scoobydoo 0 Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 They just said the % for that Tochigi one is 99% in the next 30 years. Sounds pretty certain that. Link to post Share on other sites
OzOzOz 2 Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 Did anyone on here experience the Kobe quake? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 Yes, in Osaka. I just saw on tonight's local news that Matsuyama can expect a 2.5 m tsunami when the next Nankai Jishin occurs 'anytime soon'. Let's hope that's not on a beach day... Link to post Share on other sites
ex-lurker 0 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Really? What shindo 震度 was it where you were? (I bet you wrote about it somewhere else on here... I can't remember seeing it when I was lurking) Link to post Share on other sites
akibun 0 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 There are many tv special about this recently, it's really scary. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Wish I had a satellite dish and had all those cool channels. Kept watching Discovery, TLC, and Animal Planet when i was at Snowbeds over Xmas/NYs. Miss those channels. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 Why don't you get one Yamakashi? Not that expensive.. Link to post Share on other sites
viv&kev 0 Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Get a friend to "invite" you to skyperfect and you'll get a discount or a few months free. Link to post Share on other sites
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