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That the '1000 year tsunami' happened 40 years after commissioning is more suggestive of engineering incompetence than bad luck. And unlike bad luck, incompeten
by varjag 6y ago
That the '1000 year tsunami' happened 40 years after commissioning is more suggestive of engineering incompetence than bad luck. And unlike bad luck, incompetence is a lot more prevalent.
- godelski 6y agoYou just defined bad luck. They did plan for better than a 100 year earthquake. They met those standards. Problem is sometimes you flip 10 heads in a row (equivalent to 1000 year event), when they could only handle 7.