Quake is 5th biggest, but Japan best prepared

[OmahaBlueDog]

AP via Yahoo!

"Because of warning systems, the tsunami wasn't as deadly worldwide as some in the past. Most buildings withstood the shaking. The quake was 700 times more powerful than the one that struck Haiti last year, but the death toll appears to be far lower than the 220,000-plus killed in the Caribbean."


More at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_sc/us_sci_japan_earthquake_science

[ananda]

1. I think the death toll will be in the hundreds of thousands.

People in Japan know that, but it's not getting out in the news that much.

However, I agree that Japan's disaster preparation has prevented many deaths.

[OmahaBlueDog]

3. I think thousands -- maybe tens of thousands - not hundreds of thousands

No doubt, it will be bad.

[jwirr]

2. Did they ever find the 4 trains?

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. I keep seeing wrecked train cars in videos and wondering if that's one of the four

I keep hearing they are not accounted yet