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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: March 11, 2011, 07:50:38 AM »
Horrible. Some of the pictures are terrifying:
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« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2011, 10:33:26 PM »
Though there's always a tendency for clusters (from our point of view) of really nasty seismic activity to happen along the same plate boundary.
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« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2011, 04:10:03 PM »
Quote from: Snowguy716 on March 12, 2011, 11:44:47 PM
I refuse to believe that these quakes are unrelated.

Which ones? Obviously all earthquakes along the same plate boundary are related (at least to an extent) because the forces that cause them are the same. But it isn't as though there's an equilibrium that gets knocked out of balance or anything.
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« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2011, 04:12:39 PM »
Quote from: Assemblyman & Queen Mum Inks.LWC on March 13, 2011, 04:05:47 AM
They haven't had an earthquake that reached 6.0 magnitude in over 100 years.

A hundred years is nothing in geological time though.
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« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2011, 08:23:40 PM »
Quote from: Fmr Gov& NE Speaker. Polnut on March 13, 2011, 08:20:11 PM
I'm not against nuclear power, but building nuclear plants near the coast... in Japan is not exactly a wise idea.

They're often (usually?) near the coast for cooling.
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« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2011, 07:31:09 PM »
Quote from: Beet on March 14, 2011, 07:00:37 PM
No idea, none of the so-called experts on TV even here have been really explaning what a worst-case scenario would look like in detail. They have all been dancing around it.

They don't actually know.
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