Recent Earthquakes: Are You Prepared?

FRIDAY: An 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Japan early Friday, triggering tsunami warnings and sending people fleeing out of buildings in the capital. All of Asia, Russia, and Hawaii are under a tsunami watch with up to 50ft waves. It is unclear if the Western U.S. will be affected at this moment. Currently, Japan is being hit by the tsunami as we speak (10:45pm Pacific)

Washington is highly associated with Japan and our “sister cities” are scattered across Japan. We have news stations based in Japan as well. We just witnessed live on TV via our news helicopters a tsunami that ENGULFED cars on a road, bursting through a huge silo-typed structure which what looked to be oil and the black water completely engulfed what looked like several miles of farm land and I can see houses in the distance on fire.

JUST IN: Portland State University said the west coast of Washington and Oregon are under a tsunami watch. Also said this is the 7th strongest earthquake on record.
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THURSDAY: The death toll from Thursday's earthquake in southwest China is at least 25, with more than 250 injured, according to the ministry of civil affairs.
The 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit near the border with Myanmar, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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WEDNESDAY: An 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan
New Guinea had a 6.6-magnitude earthquake as well
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Also this week, Washington State has had 4 notable earthquakes this week as well as Oregon, California, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. And we can’t forget about the February 21st earthquake in New Zealand.
This definitely makes you think. Do you guys ‘n gals have earthquake preparations for themselves in case this happens in your area? I do as I live in Washington and have been in quite a few earthquakes myself.
Does anyone have any cool/unusual things in their supplies they would like to talk about?

I’m slack-jawed on this live footage of Japan right now.
This is a calling to anyone who isn’t prepared for earthquakes to GET PREPARED​

 

Update: The earthquake has been updated to a 8.9-magnitude and has had 5 7.0+-magnitude aftershocks within an hour since the quake happened (11:10pm Pacific US)
Trading markets in Japan has been shut down

Sendai, Japan's airport has been wiped out. People were evacuated and are currently on the roof the the airport

tsunami warning over here has been lowered to an 'advisory'.

I'm still watching the news and live footage is showing farmland still being completely wiped out...livestock are floating dead, houses, boats, greenhouses, everything is washed away


I'm updated my supplies FRIDAY and getting more water, more LED flashlights, more batteries, firestarters, everything!

UPDATE: A major oil refinery plant northwest of Tokyo is now engulfed in flames

 

@[email protected] I live by 2 active volcanos


Hawaii had a 4.5 earthquake now


The tsunami hit Washington and Oregon coast just now. It went about 40ft and went back in. We're expecting 2-3 more and we don't know if they'll be bigger or not with Hawaii's earthquake and Japan's aftershocks.

 

<<The cooling system for a reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant failed on Friday after a massive earthquake caused a power outage.

The continued loss of electricity has also delayed the planned release of vapor from inside the reactor to ease pressure. Pressure inside one of the reactors had risen to 1.5 times the level considered normal.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's massive earthquake caused a power outage that disabled a nuclear reactor's cooling system, triggering evacuation orders for about 3,000 residents as the government declared its first-ever state of emergency at a nuclear plant.

Japan's nuclear safety agency said pressure inside one of six boiling water reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant had risen to 1.5 times the level considered normal. Hours after the evacuation order, the government announced that the plant in northeastern Japan will release slightly radioactive vapor from the unit to lower the pressure in an effort to protect it from a possible meltdown.>>


THAT IS NOT GOOD AT ALL

 

That's what I've been thinking. We're all screwed. I'd rather die than live in a hazard suit and mask the rest of my life.