And over twenty thousand people died from the earthquake/tsunami. That's one of my pet peeves: the 2011 Touhoku earthquake was one of the first major natural di

And over twenty thousand people died from the earthquake/tsunami. That's one of my pet peeves: the 2011 Touhoku earthquake was one of the first major natural disasters that was all over social media, and people in the west quickly swept it under the rug in their haste to focus on fearmongering about Fukushima Daichii and how it might somehow impact California. A massive tragedy had just happened, and people basically ignored that and focused on the cable news hype about a total non-issue.