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Tokyo: The View from Inside and Out

March 11, 2011 - 2:35 pm - by Ed Driscoll

As I mentioned at the Tatler late last night, CNN posted a horrifying clip from the inside of their Tokyo office the moment the earthquake hit:

I don’t know what floor CNN’s office is on, but here’s how the Tokyo cityscape looked from street-level, where office buildings can be seen visibly shaking:

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I know Japan’s architects and engineers have decades of practice refining how earthquake-proof their structures are; I wonder what magnitude they’re typically built to withstand?

And finally, one more clip; video of the tsunami wave hitting Sendai Airport, about 225 miles north of Tokyo, and much closer to the epicenter of the earthquake:

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As one of Ace’s co-bloggers writes, “Considering all of the security cameras in Japan that this will be the most well documented disaster in human history, at least in terms of video evidence.”

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  1. 1. Andrew X

    BZZZZT! I dunno what’s the deal with that “tokyo building shaking’ video. The last ten seconds, as you hear voices, apparently is straightforwardly showing a tipsy building.

    But look at the smoke to the left in the first half of it. Funny smoke that, it keeps going back and forth, up and down.

    I haven’t seen smoke do that since Beirut in 2006, when Rueters news wire showed the same kind of smoke, resulting from those mean Israelis dropping a bomb, — cut / paste — two bombs, — cut / paste — four bombs….. , etc.

    Weird. I don’t see why someone needs to get cute with that video. It’s not like there is a shortage of compelling video coming out of Japan today, unfortunately.

    March 12, 2011 - 11:40 am   Link to this Comment