Japan's 8.9 earthquake

In case you haven't heard Japan was hit by a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake early this morning. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,1950058.story
http://consumerist.com/2011/03/massi...travelers.html
From the news it looks the like the entire country it at a stand still. I lived in Yokosuka for 3 years and I'm blown away by just even the fact that they stopped the trains. Even during past earthquakes I've never heard of them not running like clockwork, which attests to the severity of this one.

So if you could please direct your prayers and good thoughts over to Japan and anyone else affected by the resulting tsunami.

Our hopes & prayers are with all those effected by this.

Absolutley unbelievable. Just saw some vids on youtube.. It's hard to even grasp what they are going through. Pray for all those people. I will be.

My prayers are with the people of Japan and of the Family's and members of our armed forces that are stationed there..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmjRG3m6Dw

All of the people involved in this and around this are in my prayers.

Heartbreaking. :tears: Too lose so much in a few hours. Praying for everyone including the soldiers stationed over there.

I've got a number of friends out that way, plus a number in the vicinity or in the pacific (including GF's parents) who may be affected by potential tsunamis. Kinda scary..

There's an advisory for people living on the CA coast, specifically Santa Cruz (Marina Del Rey) and LA. Waves up to 6 FT are anticipated, they're saying for people to move inland and prepare for the next 10 hours just in case.

What a devastating catastrophe.
The magnitude of this is just mind blowing. Words fail me :(
Prayers to everyone affected...

Prayers prayers prayers for the people and animals of Japan :(