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just outside the castle town of Nakatsu that lies equidistant between Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. At this singular point the fabric of our known reality is torn, and the Rip
begins.
Later supposition suggests a causal relationship between the creation of the Rip
and its connection with a “hell-like” Otherside to the massive death count of WWII
that culminated in the simultaneous extinction of so much life. For many it represents
divine retribution.
Starting at a point and travelling perpendicularly out
from the center line that joins Hiroshima and Nagasaki the
Rip tears open; eventually stretching from the coast a few
miles northwest of Nakatsu to the coast about 50 miles’
northeast of the already fire-bombed city of Nobeoka. The
apparently constraining nature of water limiting the Rip
to a length of almost 100 miles. At a mile high the gaping
wound in the world is immense.
The concussive force and “ash” (as it can be best
characterized) cloud deliver the immediate devastation. As
if blown through an open door the destruction fans out in
both directions. Every man-made structure is demolished,
and the ground scoured for almost 1000 miles. Tokyo is
gone. Incongruously however, Kitakyushu, is saved by the
fact of its close proximity to the Rip, lying outside the
cone of crushing force; something the inhabitants later,
as we will learn, pray had not.
The incredibly lightweight ash reaches all the way
across the Tsugaru Strait to Japan’s northern most island
of Hokkaido, and in the opposite direction across the East
China Sea to Shanghai and Taipei. An hourglass shaped
cloud of death spanning thousands of square miles.
Drawn by the loudest explosion ever heard in Busan, Korea, observers line the
walls of the seaport to see the light to the east simply blotted out.
After the immediate ash cloud settles over what was Japan, some 3 months later,
there remains the Ash Curtain. A boiling plane of grey ash in constant movement
measuring 100 miles long by 1 mile high. From a distance an observer could be forgiven
for thinking it a simple dust cloud shrouded in constant twilight.
The Rip has further compounded destructive impact by inducing a massive earthquake
through stresses placed on Japan’s longest fault line, the Median Tectonic Line, which
unfortunately runs right through its middle. Great fissures open throughout Japan but
beyond changes to topography its impact to the population pales to insignificance when
compared to the initial blast and settling ash. Not so for the rest of the world as
massive Tsunami waves radiate out from both the northwest and southeast coastlines;
the former impacts Korea and the east coast of Russia while the latter moves across
the Pacific to batter Hawaii and eventually the U.S. western coast. The waves are so
large that any shipping within 2000 miles encountering them that is not in open water,
either in the Sea of Japan or North Pacific Ocean, is severely damaged or destroyed.
Further afield there is a cascade effect triggering a deep earthquake in the
Cascadia subduction zone off the west coast of the United States and Canada. The
result is another massive tsunami and 9.0 earthquakes further inland on the San
Andreas Fault line.
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