In the huge Hypo bank center on May 4th Dj Roog showed his amazing skils

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The atomic bomb exploded 580 meters above this spot.

International Conference Center Hiroshima, Children's PEace Memorial, Hiroshima Hypocenter

Hiroshima Peace Memorial, commonly known as the Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome (Japanese: 原爆ドーム Genbaku Dome), is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Hiroshima, Japan. It was established as such in 1996. The site is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The building was originally designed by Czech architect Jan Letzel. It was completed in April 1915, and the new building was named the Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition (HMI). It was formally opened to the public in August that year. In 1921 the name was changed to the Hiroshima Prefectural Products Exhibition Hall, and again in 1933 to the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall. The 6 August 1945 nuclear explosion was almost directly above the building (the hypocenter was 150 meters / 490 feet away), and it was the closest structure to withstand the explosion. The building has been preserved in the same state as immediately after the bombing, and now serves as the reminder of nuclear holocaust and as a symbol of hope for world peace and elimination of all nuclear weapons. I also recommend you to watch "Hiroshima Pictures" documentary, 5 parts, an overall length is something about 50 min. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cPNnVGmu-w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE_S64GJoQY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTILA7foDlo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwHQSR_eI1o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsxHBeGn8EM This film inspired me to learn more about the subject, and then I discovered their virtual museum. Higher resolution version is available here http://stage6.divx.com/user/Mamay_kun/video/1193164/Genbaku-Dome(Atomic-Dome)-Tribute

The Genbaku Dome in Hiroshima's Peace Park marks the World's first use of nuclear bomb as a weapon. The 6 August 1945 nuclear explosion was almost directly above the building (the hypocenter was 150 meters / 490 feet away), and it was the closest structure to withstand the explosion. The building has been preserved in the same state as immediately after the bombing, and now serves as the reminder of nuclear devastation and as a symbol of hope for world peace and elimination of all nuclear weapons. The three storey 1915 exhibition hall had been solidly built in ferro-concrete and brick. It was incinerated and its dome exploded, but surprisingly the steel frame survived. Today it is known as Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Dome. (end quote) "but surprisingly the steel frame survived" And again ... "but surprisingly the steel frame survived" Let's recap. An atomic bomb leaves a steel framed building intact at Ground Zero, Hiroshima, but 56 years later, a kerosene fire melts and softens the steel in three seperate steel framed skyscrapers. The heat from the burning kerosene (restricted to a few floors) was so intense that it softened the steel framed structures and they collapsed, at free fall speeds, into their own basements. Why didn't the Hiroshima steel framed building soften and collapse? Does kerosene burn hotter than the epicentre of an atomic bomb? Why was the Japanese steel framed building capable of surviving the heart of a nuclear explosion, but WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7 all collapsed into their own footprints at free fall speeds, after an hour of a contained kerosene fire? The only three steel framed buildings in the history of architecture to "collapse as a result of fire" are WTC1, WTC 2 and WTC7, which wasn't even hit by a plane. Ground zero, Hiroshima, August 5th, 1945. A steel framed building survives the unimaginable heat of a nuclear bomb. 11th Sep 2001, 56 years later. American steel "soften and loses half its strength" in a kerosene fire. 3, steel framed buildings slide into their basements at freefall speed. 9/11 Inside Job ? #7 - Most Discussed (Today) #42 - Most Discussed (Today) - Global #1 - Most Discussed (Today) - Science & Technology #1 - Most Discussed (Today) - Science & Technology - Global #33 - Most Discussed (This Week) #4 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Science & Technology #14 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Science & Technology - Global #10 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Science & Technology #78 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Science & Technology - Global #49 - Most Discussed (All Time) - Science & Technology #54 - Most Viewed (Today) #1 - Most Viewed (Today) - Science & Technology #7 - Most Viewed (Today) - Science & Technology - Global #13 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Science & Technology #36 - Top Favourites (Today) #1 - Top Favourites (Today) - Science & Technology #3 - Top Favourites (Today) - Science & Technology - Global #2 - Top Favourites (This Week) - Science & Technology #36 - Top Favourites (This Week) - Science & Technology - Global #19 - Top Favourites (This Month) - Science & Technology #48 - Top Rated (Today) #2 - Top Rated (Today) - Science & Technology #9 - Top Rated (Today) - Science & Technology - Global #4 - Top Rated (This Week) - Science & Technology #58 - Top Rated (This Week) - Science & Technology - Global #38 - Top Rated (This Month) - Science & Technology Thanks !

A documentary about the Earthquake that struck pakistan in 2005. Director: Ibrahim Elbatoty. Producer: Ibrahim Elbatoty. The earthquake (also known as the South Asian earthquake or the Great Pakistan earthquake) of 2005, was a major earthquake, of which the epicentre was the Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The earthquake occurred at 08:50:38 Pakistan Standard Time (03:50:38 UTC) on 8 October 2005. It registered a debatable 7.7 or 7.6 on the richter scale making it a major earthquake similar in intensity to the 1935 Quetta earthquake, the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. As of 8 November, the Pakistani government's official death toll was 73,276, while officials say nearly 1,400 people died in Jammu and Kashmir and fourteen people in Afghanistan. Most of the affected people lived in mountainous regions with access impeded by landslides that blocked the roads, leaving an estimated 3.3 million homeless in Pakistan. The UN reported that 4 million people were directly affected, prior to the commencement of winter snowfall in the Himalayan region. It is estimated that damages incurred are well over US$ 5 billion (300 billion Pakistani rupees). Five crossing points were opened on the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan to facilitate the flow of humanitarian and medical aid to the affected region, and international aid teams from around the world came to the region to assist in relief. Kashmir lies in the area of collision of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. The geological activity born out of this collision, also responsible for the birth of the Himalayan mountain range, is the cause of unstable seismicity in the region. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) measured its magnitude as a minimum of 7.6 on the moment magnitude scale, with its epicenter at 34°29′35″N, 73°37′44″E, about 19 km (11.8 miles) northeast of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, and 100 km (65 miles) north-northeast of the national capital Islamabad. The earthquake is classified as "major" by the USGS. The hypocenter was located at a depth of 26 km (16.2 miles) below the surface [6]. The Japan Meteorological Agency estimated its magnitude at a minimum of 7.8. By comparison, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake had a magnitude of 9.15. The earthquake caused widespread destruction in northern Pakistan, as well as damage in Afghanistan and northern India. The worst hit areas were Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), western and southern parts of the Kashmir valley in the Indian Kashmir. It also affected some parts of the Pakistani province of Punjab, the capital city of Islamabad, and the city of Karachi experienced a minor aftershock of magnitude 4.6. There have been many secondary earthquakes in the region, mainly to the northwest of the original epicenter. A total of 147 aftershocks were registered in the first day after the initial quake, of which one had a magnitude of 6.2. Twenty-eight of these aftershocks occurred with magnitudes greater. On October 19, a series of strong aftershocks, one with a magnitude of 5.8, [6] occurred about 65 km (40.5 miles) north-northwest of Muzaffarabad. There have been more than 978 aftershocks with a magnitude of 4.0 and above, as of 27 October 2005 that continue to occur daily. (See USGS for a list of recent aftershocks and effects.) Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States

This movie file shows the location of the magnitude 8 earthquake that happened May 3 2006 near Tonga. The hypocenter of the earthquake is indicated by a red diamond and is surrounded by past seismicity (represented as cubes) in the region.

If I were President Truman and I had to make the decision to drop the atomic bombs on japan or not, it would have been a very easy decision to make. I still would have had to think about it for a few minuted. I would have said to myself - 'one million American casualties, or zero American casualties' - the decision was and would have been a no brainer. An Invasion Not Found in the History Books by James Martin Davis reprinted from the Omaha World Herald, November 1987 Deep in the recesses of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., hidden for nearly four decades lie thousands of pages of yellowing and dusty documents stamped "Top Secret". These documents, now declassified, are the plans for Operation Downfall, the invasion of Japan during World War II. Only a few Americans in 1945 were aware of the elaborate plans that had been prepared for the Allied Invasion of the Japanese home islands. Even fewer today are aware of the defenses the Japanese had prepared to counter the invasion had it been launched. Operation Downfall was finalized during the spring and summer of 1945. It called for two massive military undertakings to be carried out in succession and aimed at the heart of the Japanese Empire. In the first invasion - code named Operation Olympic - American combat troops would land on Japan by amphibious assault during the early morning hours of November 1, 1945 - 50 years ago. Fourteen combat divisions of soldiers and Marines would land on heavily fortified and defended Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese home islands, after an unprecedented naval and aerial bombardment. The second invasion on March 1, 1946 - code named Operation Coronet - would send at least 22 divisions against 1 million Japanese defenders on the main island of Honshu and the Tokyo Plain. It's goal: the unconditional surrender of Japan. With the exception of a part of the British Pacific Fleet, Operation Downfall was to be a strictly American operation. It called for using the entire Marine Corps, the entire Pacific Navy, elements of the 7th Army Air Force, the 8 Air Force (recently redeployed from Europe), 10th Air Force and the American Far Eastern Air Force. More than 1.5 million combat soldiers, with 3 million more in support or more than 40% of all servicemen still in uniform in 1945 - would be directly involved in the two amphibious assaults. Casualties were expected to be extremely heavy. Here's the link to the rest of the article; http://www.waszak.com/japanww2.htm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the dropping of Little Boy The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises 18 km (11 mi, 60,000 ft) into the air from the hypocenter. Japan campaign The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks at the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and 9, 1945. After six months of intense firebombing of 67 other Japanese cities, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed on August 9 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare. The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945, roughly half on the days of the bombings. Since then, thousands more have died from injuries or illness attributed to exposure to radiation released by the bombs. In both cities, the overwhelming majority of the dead were civilians. Six days after the detonation over Nagasaki, on August 15, Japan announced its surrender to the Allied Powers, signing the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, officially ending the Pacific War and therefore World War II. (Germany had signed its Instrument of Surrender on May 7, ending the war in Europe.) The bombings led, in part, to post-war Japan adopting Three Non-Nuclear Principles, forbidding that nation from nuclear armament. The Potsdam ultimatum The statement was taken by both Japanese and foreign papers as a clear rejection of the declaration. Emperor Hirohito, who was waiting for a Soviet reply to noncommittal Japanese peace feelers made no move to change the government position. On July 31, he made clear to Kido that the Imperial Regalia of Japan had to be defended at all costs. In early July, on his way to Potsdam, Truman had re-examined the decision to use the bomb. In the end, Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. His stated intention in ordering the bombings was to bring about a quick resolution of the war by inflicting destruction and instilling fear of further destruction in sufficient strength to cause Japan to surrender.

nowadays, a lot of people go here

A short look at the hypocenter in Hiroshima during a visit there in August 2005

earthquake simulator. Terremoto em Nasu, Japao. Simulador de terremotos. Bem interessante a experiencia! Grau 5 na escala Shindo. Nasu Highland Park, famoso parque no meio das montanhas de Nasu, Tochigi. Eu e o Kio fomos ao parque.Tava muito frio, tinha nevado no dia anterior! Puro gelo Varias montanhas russas bem legais. Uma vila "Anos 50", e os brinquedos tradicionais (Roda Gigante, Chapeu Mexicano, Barco Viking, etc) Diversao garantida! Muito bom de visitar varias e varias vezes! Nasu Highland Park, Tochigi, Japan. Existing Roller Coasters (9): Name Type Design Opened Status Batflyer Steel Suspended 2001 Operating Big Boom Steel Sit Down 1987 Operating Camel Coaster Steel Sit Down 1983 Operating Dragon Steel Sit Down 3/1997 Operating F2 Fright Flight Steel Inverted 1995 Operating Lightning Coaster Steel Sit Down 1990 - 1991 SBNO Panic Drive Steel Sit Down 2/28/2004 Operating Spin Turn Steel Sit Down 4/27/2004 Operating Thunder Coaster Steel Sit Down 1979 Operating Speed Bobsleigh Steel Sit Down 1992 12/2003 Nasu (那須郡; -gun) is a district located in Tochigi, Japan. As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 154,881 and a density of 128.04 persons per km². The total area was 1,209.59 km² before the towns of Nishinasuno, and Shiobara were consolidated with Kuroiso to form Nasushiobara on January 1, 2005 (wikipedia) Um sismo, também chamado de terremotoBR ou terramotoPT, é um fenômeno de vibração brusca e passageira da superfície da Terra, resultante de movimentos subterrâneos de placas rochosas, de atividade vulcânica, ou por deslocamentos (migração) de gases no interior da Terra, principalmente metano. O movimento é causado pela liberação rápida de grandes quantidades de energia sob a forma de ondas sísmicas. A maior parte dos terremotos ocorrem nas fronteiras entre placas tectônicas, ou em falhas entre dois blocos rochosos. O comprimento de uma falha pode variar de alguns centímetros até milhares de quilômetros, como é o caso da falha de San Andreas na Califórnia, Estados Unidos. Só nos Estados Unidos, ocorrem de 12 mil a 14 mil terremotos anualmente (ou seja, aproximadamente 35 por dia). Baseado em registros históricos de longo prazo, aproximadamente 18 grandes terremotos (de 7,0 a 7,9 na Escala de Richter) e um terremoto gigante (8 ou acima) podem ser esperados num ano. Entre os efeitos dos terremotos estão a vibração do solo, abertura de falhas, deslizamentos de terra, tsunamis, mudanças na rotação da Terra, além de efeitos deletérios em construções feitas pelo homem, resultando em perda de vidas, ferimentos e altos prejuízos financeiros e sociais (como o desabrigo de populações inteiras, facilitando a proliferação de doenças, fome, etc). O maior terremoto já registado foi o Grande Terremoto do Chile em 1960 que atingiu 9.5 na escala de Richter seguido pelo da Indonésia em 2004 que atingiu 9.3 na mesma escala. n earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph. The moment magnitude of an earthquake is conventionally reported, or the related and mostly obsolete Richter magnitude, with magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes being mostly imperceptible and magnitude 7 causing serious damage over large areas. Intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli scale. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by a shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. When a large earthquake epicenter is located offshore, the seabed sometimes suffers sufficient displacement to cause a tsunami. The shaking in earthquakes can also trigger landslides and occasionally volcanic activity. In its most generic sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event—whether a natural phenomenon or an event caused by humans—that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of geological faults, huge amounts of gas migration, mainly methane deep within the earth, but also by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments. An earthquake's point of initial rupture is called its focus or hypocenter. The term epicenter means the point at ground level directly above this.

QUESTO VIDEO E' FINTO! E' UNA SCEMENZA! NON E' VERO! ... COME VE LO DEVO DIRE? E TANTOMENO NON VUOLE PRENDERE IN GIRO NESSUNO!(che senso avrebbe prendere in giro le persone terremotate...sarebbe squallido ed inopportuno) NON CHIEDETEMI XKE L'HO FATTO, XKE NN LO SO NEMMENO IO. I terremoti sono vibrazioni della superficie terrestre, provocate da un'improvvisa liberazione di energia in un punto profondo della crosta terrestre; da questo punto si propagano in tutte le direzioni una serie di onde elastiche, dette "onde sismiche". La terraferma è in lento ma costante movimento (vedi placca tettonica) e i terremoti si verificano quando la tensione risultante eccede la capacità del materiale di sopportarla. Questa condizione occorre molto spesso (e la conseguente maggior frequenza dei terremoti serve a definirli) sui confini delle placche tettoniche nelle quali la litosfera terrestre può essere divisa. Gli eventi che si verificano nei confini tra placche sono detti terremoti interplacca; quelli meno frequenti che avvengono all'interno delle placche della litosfera sono detti terremoti intraplacca. I terremoti si verificano ogni giorno sulla Terra, ma la stragrande maggioranza causa poco o nessun danno. La durata media di una scossa è molto al di sotto dei 30 secondi; per i terremoti più forti, però, può arrivare fino a qualche minuto. Le onde elastiche che si propagano durante un terremoto sono di diverso tipo e in alcuni casi possono risultare in un movimento prevalentemente orizzontale o verticale del terreno (scossa ondulatoria o sussultoria). Un terremoto può essere accompagnato da forti rumori sotterranei che possono ricordare boati, rombi, tuoni, sequenze di spari, ...; questi suoni sono dovuti al passaggio delle onde sismiche all'atmosfera e sono più intensi in vicinanza dell'epicentro. An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph. The moment magnitude of an earthquake is conventionally reported, or the related and mostly obsolete Richter magnitude, with magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes being mostly imperceptible and magnitude 7 causing serious damage over large areas. Intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli scale. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by a shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. When a large earthquake epicenter is located offshore, the seabed sometimes suffers sufficient displacement to cause a tsunami. The shaking in earthquakes can also trigger landslides and occasionally volcanic activity. In its most generic sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event—whether a natural phenomenon or an event caused by humans—that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of geological faults, but also by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments. An earthquake's point of initial rupture is called its focus or hypocenter. The term epicenter means the point at ground level directly above this.