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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
Eh? The two are related obviously.
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No they are not obviously related at all. Not all earthquakes here are just off the coast and cause massive tsunamis that wipe out whole towns. Can you actually recall the last time that occurred in Japan? Most earthquakes here don't do that at all. Many occur inland with no effect on the ocean or sea at all. Many that occur out in the ocean also do not cause tsunamis. Was there a massive tsunami in the Christchurch earthquake? So a report from years ago about Japan reactors and their ability to withstand a high magnitude earthquake may not have made any mention at all of the potential risks of tsunamis. The reactors themselves operated exactly as designed and withstood the earthquake. An earthquake far greater than I believe the warning was about. So Japan just proved that these reactors can actually survive earthquakes of far greater magnitude than they were designed for. That's good news and a testament to their construction. The design didn't take into account a wave of that height though and that is something that I doubt any reactor in the world regardless of if they are near major earthquake zones or not would have design features to withstand.
So I disagree with the assertions of The Australian (as I usually do, it being a mouthpiece for the right side of politics in Australia
).