A couple of days ago, Japan went through on the worst disasters in the worlds history. Japan has gone through an earthquake, a tsunami, nuclear power plants exploding, and an estimated of tens of thousands of deaths. Dr. Musson who is the head of the seismic hazard at the British Geological Survey says that the last comparable tsunami was sometime around 869 AD. Other researchers have discovered that roughly around where the huge tsunami hit is where about one in 1,000 years will hit again. The article also talks about the other factors like the earthquake. The reason that the tsunami was so historical is because of the earthquake that struck just outside the coast of north east Japan. A professor from Georgia Tech University named Hermann Fritz said, "Nowhere in the world is as prepared as Japan - but in general you can plan for a magnitude 7 or 7.5 that happens every generation, but not anything in the 9 range".
That quote and the fact that this only happens about once in 1000 years got to me thinking about how far our world has come. If something like this was to hit a small country like it did to Haiti, I can't even imagine all the devastation that they would be going through. At least Japan is a well designed and somewhat rich country and can and will bounce back from this terrible disaster. But also after reading this article I can't not think about all the 2012 buzz thats circulating through the internet and other places. Maybe the world is coming to an end?
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