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0 pointsnorthwest652y ago0 comments

Think of it as a 3m tall bulldozer the width of the country with effectively unlimited pushing power. Watch some videos of the Japan tsunami, it's basically an unstoppable force that gobbles up everything in it's path. Very uncool.

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shiroiushi2y ago· 5 in thread

It's generally very bad, but it also depends on the shoreline. If your city is on the coast at sea level with no real barrier, it's devastating. If there's a big cliff and everything is at higher elevation, you can ignore it.

Unfortunately, people tend to build settlements at sea level.

supportengineer2y ago

We should set up some stone monuments to delineate the high water mark, for future generations.

Same but different, there's an old town near a lake that suffered a devastating flood way back in its history. The downtown area has markers on the buildings that show the high water mark for the flood.

speed_spread2y ago

The Japanese have those. A lot of the monuments are hidden in the forest in the hills above the coastal villages...

PaulHoule2y ago

Consider for instance this place

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Diablo_Canyon_Po...

which is on top of a high bluff thus much more secure than the Fukushima NPP.

shiroiushi2y ago

Unfortunately, that power plant is very close to two fault lines, and they didn't even know when they built it, so it's questionable how well it'll withstand an earthquake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant

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