[Geysers] Onikobe Japan

[Kendall Madsen]

I have a feeling it will probably be some time before any serious Geyser
Gazer will get to go check it out.  I was in Tokyo when the earthquake
hit and it was really intense; there was a lot of panic and people were
really afraid.  The building next to ours caught on fire and there was a
lot of smoke.  The entire city shut down and people were stuck wherever
they were at.  We were stranded for eight hours where we were while
every few minutes an after shock rolled through; it felt like we were on
a deck of a ship out a sea.  

 

The next day on Saturday we had an appointment up north but the
transportation systems are just not running.  They told us that the
train tracks are damaged, but that they are doing everything they can to
get things back to normal.  As intense as the earthquake and aftershocks
were, Tokyo is basically okay.  Other than minor damage to many of the
buildings the only real impact was people were stranded everywhere
without the ability to communicate because the phone systems were
overloaded or down.  The only thing we could do was sit down and wait
for things to improve.  Food and water was hard to get for the first day
because most of the store shelves were completely bare within a few
hours.  It's pretty sad over here right now, people are still pretty
nervous especially since we are still feeling aftershocks every few
hours and of course there is the worry of a nuclear power plant
meltdown.  

 

Kendall Madsen


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Subject: [Geysers] Onikobe Japan


Not that it really matters, and I'd be very certain that we'll never
know. But... people here often query as to whether or not some
earthquake caused changes in the geysers. Well, for the record, the
Onikobe-onsen of Japan, apparently the only natural geysers in Japan,
are near Sendai. Might be interesting to see the place about now......
 
Scott Bryan
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