Lessons from 2004 and 2010
On December 26, 2004, off Sumatra Island, Indonesia, an M9.1 earthquake and big tsunamis occurred to attack the Indian Ocean coast lines, taking 220,000 lives.
On January 12, 2010, Haiti, so close to New York and Washington DC in a global scope, suffered a great earthquake in its capital Port-au-Prince immediately taking on 50,000 lives and subsequently claiming 250,000 more lives.
On March 11, 2011, an M9.0 earthquake gave a great shock to Japan, especially, to those living north of Tokyo along the North Pacific coast lines stretching to the north end of Honsyu Island over 800 km (500 miles).
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku, often referred to in Japan as Higashi nihon daishin-sai and also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the 3.11 Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.03 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 32 km (20 mi). It was the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan, and one of the five most powerful earthquakes in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.This earthquake caused 16 meter-high tsunamis over hundreds of kilometers along the coast lines some of which attacked and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Due to this accident, afterwards almost all the nuclear power plants in Japan were halted. (Now only two nuclear reactors are operated for electricity generation in West Japan, while about 50 plants are still shut down.)
The point at issue is why Japanese utility companies, experts, government officials in charge, and so on could not or would not refer to the Sumatra and Haiti cases to proactively take precaution measures at the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Plant.
What they had to do was just enhance the height of breakwaters surrounding Fukushima Daiichi from about 9 meters (27 feet) to 18 meters (54 feet), since the Sumatra earthquake triggered more than 20-meter high tsunamis. Then, nuclear damages totaling more than $120 billion should have been spared.
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Rev 1:12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
Rev 1:13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Rev 1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Rev 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Rev 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.