On March 11, 2011, an earthquake measuring 9.1 on the Richter scale occurred off the coast of Japan and caused a monstrous tsunami: waves over thirty meters high in places ravaged 600 km of coastline and broke as far as ten kilometers inland!
The Fukushima nuclear power plant will not resist and there will be more than 18,000 dead and missing.
If the Japanese authorities had been able to anticipate much earlier the size of the wall of water coming from the ocean, the disaster would undoubtedly have been of lesser magnitude.
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