At 46 minutes past the hour you have now. It will one week since Earthquake

[jannyk]

Can we have one minutes silence?

2.46pm Japan Time
10.46pm PST

[jannyk]

1. BBC: People across Japan observed a minute of silence to honour the victims of the quake and the

0546: It is now exactly one week since the earthquake struck at 0246 local time (0546 GMT).
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0549: People across Japan observed a minute of silence to honour the victims of the quake and the tsunami that followed.

[aquart]

2. I was thinking 100-150,000 but now I'm thinking it's worse.

Globalization means what happens to them hits us, too. We are all in this mess together.

[Electric Monk]

3. You mean total death toll? Officially it's at 16,600 so far, but I think you're probably right.

Never mind the various cancers years from now that probably won't be included in the official stats.

It's been a hell of a week.

[aquart]

4. I'm only thinking of the tsunami numbers. Towns gone missing.

How many towns in the path of the water? At least ten thousand from each town? I watched it happen on TV. Real time. And I somehow had no idea of the height of the waves. I know about Indonesia. Why didn't I realize what I was seeing?

[drm604]

5. It's only been a week?

It seems so much longer somehow.