The news (I’m watching TV now) is still warning people to evacuate, showing it in big letters and with exclamation points, and in English along with Japanese, so the threat isn’t over yet.
There was literally a Jp magnitude 5 aftershock not 5 minutes ago, and the news is still blasting “evacuate” messages on the screen, so…
I’m lucky, I’m far enough away that it was only about a Jp 4 here, but over 30,000 homes are without power in winter and at least one major cellular phone company is reporting they’re down in Ishikawa. It’s not fine at all.
I was trying to be reassuring but of course this is a difficult situation for you and more so for the people in those 30,000 homes and even worse for the few people who lost a relative in those quakes.
Fortunately, you are amongst the lucky ones and there was no large tsunami as I have hoped so before.
So again, I hope you well and if you can take some rest and distance yourself somewhat from those bad news and bad screens it might help.
Take care and despite everything I wish you a Happy (happier) New year
I live in western Japan, and felt this earthquake even here - it lasted as long as the 311 Tohoku quake, and an NHK news announcer was screaming for people in the Noto area to flee to higher ground because of the tsunami.
I had to watch another station because that woman was just yelling into the mic nonstop. I understand, but for someone watching from Saitama it was too much.
Thankfully, the warning was overblown. One wave hit the breakwater in Noto, but it wasn’t as big as they were expecting. More damage was done by a gas fire inside the city. And I think they’re trying to locate some people after a few buildings with old clay-shingled roofs collapsed.
After the video footage I seen from the last tsunami I would imagine that people are pretty fucking traumatized and will react that way for the rest of their lives.
I was traumatized from the footage and I have no personal connections to anyone in Japan.
Can confirm, was living in Tohoku during the 2011 disaster.
I live in Washington now and still do things like check geological maps to avoid living in areas that are prone to liquefaction and pay attention to signs so as to be aware of tsunami evacuation routes when I visit the coast.
A nationwide air alert was in place as drones and missiles struck Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Lviv in the early hours of Friday morning.
Ukraine’s Air Force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat said Russia used hypersonic, cruise and ballistic missiles, including X-22 type, which are difficult to intercept.
A metro station that was acting as an air raid shelter was struck, and fires broke out at several warehouses and residential buildings.
Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov said one person was killed and several injured in a series of strikes on the city which damaged a hospital and residential buildings.
The Russian attack comes a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the US for its last approved $250m (£195.7m) military aid package, which included air defence ammunition.
Writing on Telegram, Ukrainian presidential aid Andriy Yermak said “the world needs to see that we need more support and strength to stop this terror”.
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A resident of Hosa Vantamuri village in Belagavi district in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, she was being punished because her 24-year-old son had eloped with his 18-year-old girlfriend.
Families don’t come forward because it’s a matter of honour and the system does not support the survivors or give them a safe space to report these crimes," says lawyer and rights activist Sukriti Chauhan.
Such cases are dealt with under article 354 of the Indian Penal Code and are punishable by a mere three to seven years in jail - which, Ms Chauhan says, is “grossly inadequate”.
In the Karnataka high court, the justices also noted that the assault in Belagavi was watched by “a crowd of 50-60 villagers”, adding that “only one man tried to intervene and he was also beaten up”.
Highlighting the need for “collective responsibility” to stop such atrocities, the judges cited a case from the 1830s - when India was governed by the British - pointing out that an entire village was made to pay for a crime.
Maumil Mehraj, a research analyst who works with young people on gender equity, says the reason a woman’s body is treated as a battlefield is because it’s connected to her - and by extension her family, caste and community’s - honour.
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You know, awhile ago the leader of the KKK came out and said they aren’t going to kill black people anymore because “they’re doing a fine job killing themselves” in reference in gang violence.
I feel like a similar thing is occurring among the most trashiest of whites.
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