Topic: Japan Earthquake Not the "Big One"?

[sam]

Though Friday's Japan earthquake—which spawned a tsunami and damaged a nuclear power plant—was the largest to strike the country since the dawn of modern seismology, it wasn't the long dreaded "big one," experts say.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110315-japan-earthquake-tsunami-big-one-science/

[Clive]

Oh that makes very cheerful reading Sam!   

[Rik]

I'm just going to go and hang myself.

[Simon]

You wouldn't want to live there, would you?  This will no doubt affect their tourist industry too. 

[Rik]

Not to mention manufacturing industry. The financial implications are yet to be fully examined, but I expect them to have major implications, eg Korea will benefit massively. If I'm right, then North Korea might start getting itchy trigger fingers again, eyeing all that evil capitalist wealth in the south.

[Simon]

[sam]

Not to *our* mention manufacturing industry.

[Clive]

This will no doubt affect their tourist industry too. 

A friend of mine has just returned from a holiday in that region.  He's very upset about the events as he believes (rightly or wrongly) that some of the people he met would have died.

[Simon]

That's sobering. 

[Rik]

It is, and he's probably right.