Japanese Earthquake - was it really that devastating?

[OmCheeto]

It would have to be removed, cleaned, drained and scrubbed first, then replaced. Knowing the Japanese I'd suspect something made from a ship, not a whole ship itself. One is a reminder, the latter is a momument.

Bah! Clean-em up and make restaurants out of them.

Might as well make the reminders practical.

 

[EntropicLove]

*jaw drops*

Wow a boat on a building; there's something you don't see everyday.

 

[nismaratwork]

Bah! Clean-em up and make restaurants out of them.

Might as well make the reminders practical.

That is rather the arresting image, but something tells me it's a practical engineering issue, and probably a bit too visceral. You want a memorial to be that, but not to trigger flashbacks in every other person passing by...

 

[joelupchurch]

When I click through to the underlying data, I seem to get something close to .6g for the Max Acc (%g) at the reactor.

NEI Nuclear Notes is saying:

The March 11 earthquake was stronger than the Daiichi plant was designed to withstand, the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum reported. Maximum ground acceleration near reactor 3 was 507 centimeters per second squared - more than the plant's design reference values of 449.

http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2011/03/evening-report_20.html"

That works out to .51g

 

[ViewsofMars]

The World Health Organization has recently released "Japan earthquake and tsunami
Situation Report No. 33 - 11 May 2011" that I thought would be valuable for those who
are interested. The pdf has 59 pages of information.

http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/B614B476-46F1-4094-846D-F5B9D5BD0FB7/0/Sitrep3311May.pdf

It is heart wrenching. The devastation is over whelming. It takes my breath away.
I can only hope for a better life in the future for the people in Japan that were
affected by this disaster.