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There are old stone tsunami markers in coastal areas around Japan. "Don't build below this point." The Fukushima nuclear facility was built below that point.
by a3n 5y ago
There are old stone tsunami markers in coastal areas around Japan. "Don't build below this point."
The Fukushima nuclear facility was built below that point.
> "It takes about three generations for people to forget. Those that experience the disaster themselves pass it to their children and their grandchildren, but then the memory fades," Fumihiko Imamura, a professor in disaster planning at Tohoku University, told the AP.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnings-against-tsunamis-dot-japans-coastline-180956448/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnin...