Statewide Mega Quake May Be Possible After All

ktla ^ | 5 hours ago

[Wuli]

“I heard a report the other day which said that the location of the nuclear plant had received 30 meter (95 ft) tsunamis in the historical past, but the plant was not sited or protected to reflect this historical reality.”

From everything I have read, if the site of the plant had ever received a 95 ft tsnami in the past, it was not in the living memory of any Japanese living today.

Such assessments are based on the statisical most likely scenarios not the radomly, rarely possible though not likely scenarios.

Many things can be on the order of “possible” but it does not make them likely or certain and that sort of unpredictability leaves all kinds of planning left dealing responsibly with statistically greatest, most frequent, most often recorded case scenarios.

No one can afford to build for D-Day every day in every way. If we were asked to, civilization would slowly shut down.

[gleeaikin]

Perhaps the story misspoke and meant 30 feet not meters. They certainly should have built to that standard, and I think they did not. Maybe like the mistake where we sent a rocket to the moon and the program mixed up meters and feet and crashed the rocket.