Hang in there Japan!!

Hang in there Japan!!

Update: Make a donation to the Japan Pacific Relief via the Australian Red Cross!! 
Link: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp 
2011-03-11
Japan Tsunami
So I heard about the horrid earthquake (8.9 on the Richter Scale) and tsunami (10m high) in Japan today :(
What's with all the natural disasters? Cyclone Yasi...Christchurch earthquake and now Japan!! All within 2months :(
Hang in there Japan. You'll pull through. My heart goes out to all the victims.

Even for a country so prepared for earthquakes...this is big. D:

Update:
For HQ pictures please visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709791 
For BBC Live Broadcast of the event: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
Why was it so big? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12710999


Latest Update as of 2011-03-13
Copied from UK's The Guardian

• Three days after a devastating earthquake unleashed a tsunami in which at least 10,000 people are feared dead, Japan on Sunday faced a deepening nuclear crisis and the prospect of another quake as powerful as the one that laid waste to vast stretches of its north-eastern coastline. 
• The prime minister, Naoto Kan, called the disaster "Japan's most severe crisis since the war ended 65 years ago". He called on the country to unite and said its future would be decided by the response to this crisis. 
• The threat of further seismic shifts and tsunami is far from over. As rescue teams from more than 70 countries and tens of thousands of Japanese troops descended on the disaster zone, meteorological agency officials warned there was a 70% chance of a magnitude-7.0 earthquake striking the region in the next three days. 
• The meteorological agency upgraded last Friday's earthquake, the fifth biggest in the world for a century, from magnitude 8.8 to 9.0. What began as a violent seismic shift lasting minutes has left a permanent geological legacy: the US Geological Survey said the force of the quake had shifted the island a distance of 8ft (2.5 metres).