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Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :

According to this story, 6 are dead and 8 missing. [Frown]

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

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.

Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :

They prefer survival apparently. [Smile]

This is sad, but I agree it could have been much worse.

Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :

Richter 7.2, and six dead? Ye gods, that's what I call engineering.

Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

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.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

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.

[ June 14, 2008, 09:18 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :

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.