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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.
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Who has Japan been dropping bombs on and on behalf of what god?
People seem to have forgotten the 1923 earthquake and FIRE that destroyed Yokohama and a quarter million lives, without even a hint of a tsunami!
It was around 7am and people getting breakfast off of wood or coal fires in the homes leading up the hill from Yokohama bay. The quake hit, upset all the cooking fires and lit the upper reaches of the hill on fire and the Westerly winds blowing over the top pushed the fire ... and people who survived down toward the bay.
Unfortunately, the major industrial port's fuel tanks burst covering it with fuel and oil which quickly lit off when the windborn fires reached the bay and very few people survived. The photos taken by local photographers just after the ashes cooled made Yokohama look almost exactly like Hiroshima after the nuclear bomb. I have a two volume set of books summarizing the events.
Yokohama harbor had about a 9.5 foot elevation change after the earthquake in some areas. This is a similar elevation change to what was detected in the Seattle area after an earthquake in the early 1700s before westerners populated the area. It is predicted to hit again. Good reason Amazon is looking for another location!
In other words, there are a whole lot of ways to destroy a city in & after an earthquake and then isolate people after the earthquake when the ground elevation changes wipe out roads, bridges, trains, etc.
There are two types of countries in the world. Those that use the metric system and those that have walked on the moon.
Ironically, to go to the moon they used the metric system...
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"Ironically, to go to the moon they used the metric system."
Quite possibly not. A lot of the early space work in the US was done in imperial units or a mixture of Imperial and SI. I actually worked with military space programs in the 1960s and 1970s and while I'm comfortable with metric units, I don't recall using them much professionally back then.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
All four common options for energy -- BTU, Joule, Calorie, Kilocalorie leave something to be desired. The problem is that the Joule and Calorie are too small to be convenient for a lot of real world stuff. Kilocalories would be better except that folks are prone to leave the "kilo" off and they then get confused with calories. (e.g. the "calories" in food are actually kilcalories) Often it's easier to just work with BTUs (roughly a quarter of a kilocalorie) which are a convenient size and aren't ambiguous.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
Japanese people aren't generally familiar with feet, yards and other Imperial measures, but they do use some non-metric units.
Some screen sizes are given in inches, although TVs seem mostly to be centimetres. Things like phones are often in inches. Room sizes are typically give in the number of tatame mats that will fit, although east and west Japan have different size mats. In historical dramas they often talk about "ri", which is a pre-metric unit of measurement.
But not feet.
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As cool as the metric system is, one of the advantages of Imperial units is that they're based on intuitive measures. You just have to tell the Japanese person one time, "a foot is about the length of your foot with your shoes on," and they will forever know how long a foot is.
Unfortunately, going the other way (imperial to metric) is not so intuitive, which is one of the reasons why Americans have thus far resisted the metric system. I was taught the metric system in the 1970s when the U.S. was attempting to switch. About the only measures which i thought were intuitive were your finger being about 1 cm wide, and your hand about 1 dm wide (not that anyone uses decimeters). Alas, it's called a centimeter and not a fingermeter, and decimeter instead of handmeter. So the only way to learn it is through brute memorization. Unlike a foot being the length of a foot.
c.f. teaspoon vs milliliter, horsepower vs Watt, atmosphere vs Pascals, grain vs gram. The only cool relationship I think the metric system has is that 1 liter of water weighs 1 kg.
Look it up, Japan also has its traditional units that are still used in many industries like construction and textiles. They aren't pure metric.
Absolutely false and ignorant statement
I, for one, definitely want to be in an underground bunker when millions of gallons of water cover the land above me. There's no way that could go wrong. If it does, I'll just hop in my plugsuit and go beat up the weird-looking fleshy robot monsters impeding my survival.