Bad assumptions or bad luck: Tohoku’s embarrassing lessons for earthquake hazard
Watch a five 5-minute video summary presented at the 2012 UNAVCO science workshop “Bad assumptions or bad luck: Tohoku’s embarrassing lessons for earthquake hazard mapping”.
Scientists previously thought the faults off the northeast coast of Japan weren’t capable of causing massive quakes and giant tsunamis. The area had been prepared for smaller quakes and the resulting tsunami got everybody unprepared for such cataclysmic event.
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Thanks for the Link FC
We have no chance……
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Detonation of Nuclear Devices at or near a Fault line can contribute to a false Flag earthquake and tsunamis, which of course are not predictable by earthquake hazard mapping.Bad assumptions or bad luck ….. Hmmm?