{"id":8,"date":"2011-03-13T04:36:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T04:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/novaatlantis\/2011\/03\/13\/the-black-devouring-sea\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:56:08","slug":"the-black-devouring-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/novaatlantis\/2011\/03\/13\/the-black-devouring-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black, Devouring Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/mood_scared.gif\" alt=\"Scared\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Mood:<\/strong> Scared&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/>On Facebook, I&#8217;ve been keeping a running commentary on the unfolding disaster here in Japan, and I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/azzageddi.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/we-are-ok.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">an entry to my family-and-friends blog<\/a> on that as well. All this is mostly just to let people know I&#8217;m OK. Junko and I and the kids are well outside the danger zone.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, I&#8217;m kind of used to this sort of thing. On a per-square-kilometer basis, Japan has the most earthquakes of any country in the world, and every time we have one big enough to make the news, I get emails from overseas making sure I&#8217;m OK. Naturally, few of those quakes are close enough to my city for me to notice. I&#8217;ve only been in one significant quake in my entire life (Texas doesn&#8217;t have a whole lot of them), and while terrifying, the only thing that fell down in my apartment was my Shakespeare Action Figure.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, is different. This is one of those events that Japan will be marking with about five minutes of silence (the duration of the quake) at 2:46 in the afternoon every March 11th for at least a generation. I haven&#8217;t felt the main quake or any of the dozens of serious pre- and after-shocks, and Fukuoka was very fortunate in experiencing only minor tsunami swells. But the effect on Japan as a whole, and all of us living here, is profound. Exactly what those effects will be are still unknown&#8211;with aftershocks and radiation leakage from damaged powerplants, this catastrophe is still developing.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/03\/11\/japan-earthquake-info\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">an article with links<\/a> to international aid groups that are providing disaster relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&nbsp; Mood: Scared&nbsp;]On Facebook, I&#8217;ve been keeping a running commentary on the unfolding disaster here in Japan, and I posted an entry to my family-and-friends blog on that as well. 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