The Japanese earthquake & aftermath.

Wow, just wow.
I've been keeping up with the footage throught the day; much of it is just insane, the way the tsunami just wiped out whole areas in one go.

Its a horrible situation. Most definatly not a time for black humour or to complain about difficulty getting Japanese products imported.
My thoughs are with everyone across the world who have been effected by the catastropy. I hope the death toll is as small as possible.


A bit of geology in a nutshell. Japan is volcanic island arc sitting on a subducting plate margin. The eartquakes originate in an area called the Wadatii-Benioff zone, an area of earthquakes caused my the subducting plate moving under the other one.
Its a horrible situation caused by something very interesting.