On 18/03/2011 07:35, harry wrote:
On Mar 17, 6:31 pm, "Nightjar\"cpb\"@""insertmysurnamehere wrote:
On 17/03/2011 17:07, Alan wrote:





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Exactly. The sixth largest earthquake ever recorded in probably the
worst place it could happen.
So why didn't they design the facility for the worst ever earthquake
recorded (plus a large margin on top)?

They did. But not the tsunami.

And remember, this was built in the early 70's.

And they had no experience of tsunamis after earthquakes 40 years ago?

This tsunami is now being rated as a 1 in 1,000 year event.
Realistically, nobody plans for events that rare.

Colin Bignell- Hide quoted text -

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You have no grasp of statistics. There have been three major tsunamis
in the last ten years.

It is you who have no idea about statistics if you think that this
tsunami being a 1 in 1000 year event would mean that there cannot be
other, more frequent, events that lead to less severe tsunamis.

Colin Bignell