On Mar 18, 11:19*pm, Bolted wrote:
On Mar 18, 10:13*pm, geoff wrote:





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harry writes

On Mar 17, 6:31 pm, "Nightjar \"cpb\"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote:
This tsunami is now being rated as a 1 in 1,000 year event.
Realistically, nobody plans for events that rare.

Colin Bignell

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

I have to save that one ...

Harry, you're a proper bellend (curve), no doubt about that

Huge seems to be equally poor at stats, although probably just led
astray by a very poorly written article.

The seismologist said the last similar event happened 1000 years ago.
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I seem to remember there was one in Indonesia, boxing day or
something? Just so happened they didn't have a reactor in the
vicinity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Indonesia

But they were close.
So that's two in five years not one in a thousand years.

There is California, Arizona Argentina Mexico Greece Taiwan Iran
Pakistan to name a few in earthquake zones.
Do really suppose they are as well built as theJapanese ones?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear...icy_by_country
So where does this leave your 1 in a 1000?