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Stacy Summary: Wow, an 8.9. And the natural disasters continue . . . and, remember, when Mother Nature wants it, she always wins the competition for capital. But when all the capital is gone, perhaps we just might abandon disaster zones as they happen. Rather than rebuild.

UPDATE: **VIDEO OF TSUNAMI HITTING JAPAN**

UPDATE 2: Apparently local Japanese news reporting that a nuclear reactor is having emergency cooling problems.  No radiation leak at the moment.  Will track this, Japan’s PM is reportedly to make a statement soon.

UPDATE 3:  Ship carrying 100 carried away.

UPDATE 4: FT reporter:  Major explosion hits petrochemical complex in Northeastern Japan; AP: tsunami waves hit Hawaii

UPDATE 5: 88,000 people, a high speed bullet train and a cruise ship missing in Japan

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USGS earthquake map; red dots are from past hour, blue are in past 24 hours; as you can see the Pacific basin has been rumbling: