I've been glued to the news all afternoon ... my friend has two children on Oahu ... thank goodness they are okay

Tragic!

ahhh no..more reports of big quakes - central japan this time.

Effing Tragic!

Google's dedicated page has several messages reporting quakes in the north

FFS

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/..._singendo_index.html

Mother Earth is really kicking ass...

My husband says I'm nuts because I said it's like the film "the day after tomorrow" but in slow motion.

They've called a nuclear emergency - 

with a bit of 2012 thrown in..!

its protocol or the law or summat
even if theres the slightest worry that it might be going tits up
dunno if im trying to reassure you or me lol

My mum used to say that (well, not so much ass) She used to think we were all doomed in the 50s because the 50s and early 60s sounded a bit like armageddon.

1. 1944: Ben Hentschel in Tokyo tweets: "can't sleep. earthquakes the whole night... its 4:30am right now... just can't close my eyes"

Its just awful, much love Peter , and all who have family etc affected

I thought that too a few months ago Pirate. The Mayans didn't say about the end of the world as some think.....more of a new beginning...which if you think about it is what happened in the film 2012 

I'm getting all deep 

There is a belief that Mother Earth (Gaia)will only tolerate so much before she shakes the parasites from her skin....us...

As she's done before 

and on that happy note..

yeah they're on about starting again

getting rid of all the shit

i just hope that includes mugabi, gadaffi and boy bands

Not Westlife though. I like Nicky and Shane 

Well I'm not  religious etc but it's as good a belief as any.Humans have this "we deserve to be here" belief...no we don't.The dinosaurs lasted over one hundred million years,we are barely scratching a million.Yet have been the most destructive,like a virus on the planet.

That's us to a T Katty 

IMO that's the ego of humans. Always something bigger and better out there and they don't care how it affects the rest of the world. Animals rely on basic instincts and adhere to the laws of nature. All sorts of things have affected the world today but IMO money, greed and ego are mainly to blame.

Why don't we deserve to be here ??

There is nothing written to say this how it isn't meant to be.......

We take ,take ,take the planets resources to fuel our greed for crap etc.So short sighted,our decendants will curse us...if they survive.

Slimfern I mean that humans think we are the ultimate creatures on the planet. All things that have happened led to us..arrogance! I  hope we are not.

But we can only learn how to survive from our descendants. For sure, some are all about take, take, take and not giving a shit about anyone else but not everyone is like that. There are a lot of good people who make sacrifices, go without and there are those who do a lot of good and give up their time to help others, so not agreeing with the 'we' part of that, tbh. Bit of a generalisation.

I'd say that from the mess we've made of things it's an indicator of why we don't deserve to be here. We've pushed the planet to the limit. We're all feeling safe just now because none of these earthquakes or tsunamis have hit us yet.....YET. It's only a matter of time before something does hit us. I'm not a scientist but even I know we've abused our natural resources and environment and can do nothing to stop it but we can prepare ourselves.

2012 is sounding more likely, I never really believed it before but apparently the Mayans believed that the years leading up to 2012 the earth will experience multiple natural disasters. 

Am not religious in the slightest Katty - I don't know how we came to be & I don't know how the world is going to turn/end if indeed it does - Yes we are a greedy species - but who can say if this not how it is meant to be ??
It may be painful for us as humans to endure (and it is) but the world evolves & so do we....

I do get where katty and cagney are coming from, and agree in some ways, but also agree with Karma and slimfern that not everyone is a nasty piece of work that doesn't give a shit about the planet.  Unfortunately the ones that DON'T give a shit are the powers that be/the superpowers who control the planet.  For instance, I am SURE there must be alternatives to fossil fuels by now, but someone somewhere in control stops it, and we keep mining and digging for oil..... there is this arrogance in 'some' humans though that thinks we are sooooo important, and mother earth is reminding us all that SHE is the boss, not us.

On sky news its showing how the buildings with stood the quake. I guess if it wasn't for the tsunami there wouldn't be half as many fatalities.

300+ so far Rawky - they reckon it will reach over a 1000 

Don't get me wrong Cupcake....I think most on this planet are good and do care. These aren't the people in power though. These people are always looking for better, faster, cheaper ways of doing things and giving no thought to the consequences. That comes back on all of us too though. We all use the fossil fuels, use aerosols and whatever else makes life easier for us. What gets on my nerves though is that most of us aren't scientists so go by what we see as specialists research and facts. These are the people who maybe not then...but do now know the impact it will have on the planet but yet refuse to take any responsibility. It's all to do with "us". It's not "us" it's "them" who told us it was ok 

Well on a so  called small scale...many recipes, Jamie oliver etc call for Palm sugar.This has led to a boom in poorer countries in trashing their native forrests where many creatures live to provide us in the west with Palm sugar plantations an okay yah! ingrediant,It's used in many commercial  products too...

Thanks for your post Cagney and I know where you're coming from. 

Just got some messages, 3 of my friends are ok. Although one, who lives in Tokyo hasn't answered anyone.

I still think all this underground testing and throwing satellites and stuff up in the atmosphere/orbit has a lot to do with it too.

So there have been two quakes in the west of Honshu, 45 minutes apart. No reports of casualties so far, thank goodness.