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Derrell
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According to this story, 6 are dead and 8 missing. [Frown]
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Noemon
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That's sad, but anyplace else in the world it would probably have been orders of magnitude worse. I'm always astonished by the degree to which the Japanese have earthquake-proofed their buildings and infrastructure.
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rollainm
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They prefer survival apparently. [Smile]

This is sad, but I agree it could have been much worse.
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King of Men
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Richter 7.2, and six dead? Ye gods, that's what I call engineering.
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These things always make me skittish as some of my family lives in Tokyo.

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Richter 7.2, and six dead? Ye gods, that's what I call engineering.
Seriously no kidding.
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aspectre
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I'm wondering where CNN got that "U.S. Geological Survey reports 7.2 magnitude quake...".
Cuz the USGS Earthquake List has pegged the strongest quake at 6.8 on the RichterMagnitudeScale, which is ~4times weaker than CNN is reporting, and (at least) ~45times weaker than the Sichuan earthquake.

It also helps that the quake was centered in a relatively unpopulated region of Honshu.

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A friend of mine in Fukuoka (admittedly on the other end of Japan) hadn't even heard about it until I emailed him to check that everything was OK.
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