8.9 earthquake and tsunami in Japan…8.9!! Lucky it’s hit Japan first, it might be ok…
How is that lucky? In what way is an earthquake 8000 times stronger
than the one hitting Christchurch EVER lucky?
Currently there’s a massive state of emergency in Japan because an oil refinery is on fire, and a nuclear power plant is damaged, and that’s not even taking into account a 10-metre high Tsunami that threatens the entire pacific basin, which is already wreakin havoc on the east coast of Japan as far as Tokyo.
How is this lucky? How is this ok?
I believe what she means Greg is that of all the nations in the world Japan has some of the best systems and plans in place for dealing with earthquakes. Granted it will be no smooth ride by any degree, but the vast majority of their buildings are designed to withstand earthquakes and the government has full plans in place to deal with these things. People will die, but less so than in nations who don’t have any infrastructure in place to deal with it.
Can you imagine what would happen if an earthquake struck here? It would be 2020 before the DUP and Sinn Fein stop blaming each other for it and start negotiating some sort of response.
While you’re right in that regard, I still find it a bit like saying “It’s lucky that famine hit Ethiopia, they’re used to it”. It’s always a terrible event, and we shouldn’t think how fortunate they are to be prepared, rather we should be thinking how we can help those who have suffered.
Wow ok Greg lol…Yeah like Lindsay said, Japan is a developed country and the majority if its buildings are earthquake proof, they even do practice drills regularly so people know how to react. So I’m willing to bet that even though this earthquake was 8.9 which is insanely HUGE it’s going to have a LOT less impact than for example Haiti, which was like 7 or something, where people were pretty much defenceless and without aid or even clean water. It’s never so much the magnitude as the depth and location that matters. It IS tragic hundreds maybe even thousands of people are probably going to be dead (the death toll won’t be reliable yet) but at least it’s very very unlikely to be hundreds of thousands which is usually the case in ledcs. There’s also not likely to be many secondary effects like disease, which will help keep the death toll lower. And last I heard the nuclear power plant was holding up? Dunno if that’s still true. I was more worried about the potential tsunami predicted around the Pacific as places like Indonesia would have been pretty badly affected, thankfully I think that’s been lifted in most places…Anyways, yeah it’s not really anything like saying ‘it’s lucky a famine hit Ethiopia…’ because I’m not saying it’s ok because Japan are USED to it I’m saying it’s lucky they are PREPARED for it.
