70% chance of big Tokyo earthquake 'within 4 yrs'

[Korean]

70% chance of big Tokyo earthquake 'within 4 yrs' : Science & Nature : Features : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

70% chance of big Tokyo earthquake 'within 4 yrs'
The Yomiuri Shimbun

There is a 70 percent probability the Tokyo metropolitan area will be hit directly by a strong earthquake of magnitude-7 level within four years, according to data compiled by a University of Tokyo research team.

The preliminary calculations conducted by a team from the university's Earthquake Research Institute were based on intensified seismic activity in the area after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11.

The findings are more dire than a similar estimate by the central government's Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion, which states there is a 70 percent chance a quake of the same scale will hit the southern Kanto region, including the metropolitan area, within 30 years.

If a magnitude-7.3 earthquake occurs directly under northern Tokyo Bay, as many as 11,000 people are expected to die and about 850,000 buildings to be rendered totally unusable or destroyed by fire.

Since Osaka is no safe, it maybe a time to move Japan's capital North.

 

[xizhimen]

what a country!tsunami in Japan killed more people than earthquakes in history,I think tsunami must be a Japanese word.

 

[Roybot]

what a country!tsunami in Japan killed more people than earthquakes in history,I think tsunami must be a Japanese word.

It is a Japanese word.

 

[Backbencher]

what a country!tsunami in Japan killed more people than earthquakes in history,I think tsunami must be a Japanese word.

Actually it is a Japanese word genious

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It will not only be bad for Japanese but also for overall world economy
Tokyo is such a beautiful and crucial city of our planet .

 

[fly2012]

what a country!tsunami in Japan killed more people than earthquakes in history,I think tsunami must be a Japanese word.

Tsunami is the Japanese pronunciation of two Kanjis (Chinese character) "津波“，harbor wave obviously.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Actually it is a Japanese word genious

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It will not only be bad for Japanese but also for overall world economy
Tokyo is such a beautiful and crucial city of our planet .

It is our Korean friend here who wants to see Tokyo gets destroyed by the natural disaster.

 

[SinoChallenger]

It is our Korean friend here who wants to see Tokyo gets destroyed by the natural disaster.

Must be something the Japanese left in Korea.

 

[Korean]

It is our Korean friend here who wants to see Tokyo gets destroyed by the natural disaster.

No. Where do you think those displaced Japanese would try to flee to? China? Hell no.

There is already a wave of Japanese companies buying up land in Southern Korea to relocate their factories and new residential towns near the airports are selling out. Destruction of Tokyo would make the problem worse.

 

[Aramsogo]

Actually it is a Japanese word genious

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It will not only be bad for Japanese but also for overall world economy
Tokyo is such a beautiful and crucial city of our planet .

See post #5 and learn to spell genius, genius.

 

[Aramsogo]

It is our Korean friend here who wants to see Tokyo gets destroyed by the natural disaster.

Not just the Koreans, I was humming "Under the Sea" when I read this...

 

[canadian icehole]

No. Where do you think those displaced Japanese would try to flee to? China? Hell no.

There is already a wave of Japanese companies buying up land in Southern Korea to relocate their factories and new residential towns near the airports are selling out. Destruction of Tokyo would make the problem worse.

Really?! That's gotta suck. They'd come and buy all available land which in turn drives up the housing prices. I guess less fortunate locals will have to move North for cheaper housing at the cost of their freedom.

 

[Holmes]

Let's hope Not.

 

[Bhairava]

Japanese can buy up land in Canada..Similar climate and vast unused tracts of land.

 

[nehru report]

japan and north korea should form a federation and work together imo.