(February 7, 2023 at 3:42 pm)Jackalope Wrote: What a tragedy.
By comparison, we had an earthquake of similar magnitude (7.7 vs 7.8) last September with only a few lives lost. Construction quality here is often poor as well. I can only speculate what accounts for the difference
Urban area? Population density?
Japan has some of the strictest earthquake building standards and earth quake preparedness practices in the world, and takes them very diligently and seriously. Nonetheless, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake near densely populated Kobe killed 6700 people in 1995.
