Japan Plans For 100ft Tsunami (thesun.ie)

schwit1 shares a report from The Times: It will shake houses and tall buildings, and unleash a 100ft tsunami on one of the most densely populated and industrialized coastlines in the world. It could kill and injure close to a million people. It will almost certainly come in the next few decades. Now, the Japanese government is making plans to evacuate millions of people in anticipation of what could be one of the worst natural disasters in history (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). It is known as the Nankai Trough megaquake. The Japanese government has previously estimated that there is a 70 to 80 percent chance that such an event will take place in the next 30 years and that the earthquake, and subsequent tsunami, could kill 323,000 people and injure 623,000. Unfortunately, the report doesn't outline how the government plans to get people out of harm's way. The city with the most people in the danger zone is Nagoya, Japan's fourth largest city and home to 2.3 million people. "The home of the nation's industry Hamamatsu is also at risk and home to over 800,000 people," reports The Irish Sun.

Comments

Do Japanese citizens even know what a "ft" is?

[mlawrence]

Please, please adopt the metric system like the rest of the world. :(

I'm not sure they have the resources

[rsilvergun]

to weather such a storm. Not with their economy being what it is. It's times like this that I wish folks could stop wasting time dropping bombs and fighting over who's God is God and just get stuff done.

Re:I'm not sure they have the resources

[Anonymous Coward]

Who has Japan been dropping bombs on and on behalf of what god?