The Japan 8.9 Earthquake

[snabbott]

Very cool. Oscar walks a bit like a spider but that was rather uplifting.

Heh. Yeah, he does. But it's better than not walking at all.

If bionic feet you had, walk so well you would not!

[Arkillian]

Lol

[KatieHal]

A little bit of heartwarming news from the Japan earthquake, and some adorable animalness in the process.

Japan 'tsunami dog' reunited with owner

[kindofdoon]

A 22-year old man who lives quite close to my hometown has traveled to Japan to personally assist with the the restoration efforts. He has started a blog at CraigHelpsJapan.com.

[Enchantermon]

That's really cool; good for him!

[Morwen]

We could definitely use more people like him in the world, thats for sure. And for the dog, it is so cute. Its nice to see it got reunited with its owner!

[Buddy1991]

wow, that's really awesome! I think it takes a lot to leave your own country and go into another one to help there. Especially in this case where he even is exposed to dangers like the the whole radioactivity thing...

[Enchantermon]

You've got to be kidding.

[wilco64256]

Man they just can't get a break over there can they?

[Deloria]

It's an earthquake zone. It's sad, but is it really surprising? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Japan

[dark-daventry]

You've got to be kidding.

This is sad and wrong. One earthquake and a tsunami are enough; they don't a second earthquake muddling things up, do they?

[Deloria]

It's actually more like a fourth.

[Morwen]

Those poor people. Thats just awful

[dark-daventry]

Those poor people. Thats just awful

Indeed.

It's actually more like a fourth.

The number is irrelevant; just one natural disaster is bad enough, but having more than one, whatever the number may be? That's just wrong! Bad Mother Nature! Bad!

[darthkiwi]

It is horrendous that this has happened and so many people have died. But I can't help thinking Deloria is right: they're called *after*shocks for a reason. This can't have been unexpected.

Still, I hope that's their lot for now.

[Morwen]

yeah New Zealand is still getting aftershocks (well I have heard from my friend a few weeks ago  )...hopefully Japans aftershocks do not last as long as theirs have...its just awful...

[Buddy1991]

It is horrendous that this has happened and so many people have died. But I can't help thinking Deloria is right: they're called *after*shocks for a reason. This can't have been unexpected.

Still, I hope that's their lot for now.

I was just about to ask whether these "after shocks" should be even called "after shocks". To me, after shocks are "weaker" earthquakes that occur after a big earthquake in a period of 1 - 2 hours. But now it's been 4 damn weeks and Japan kept shaking and shaking!

I just can agree with dark-daventry: Damn nature, they had enough.