Mega earthquake could cause Y1,410 tril damage to Japan: report

Well, the Great Tokyo Quake is due anyday now, since it has been 100 years from the last one.

Just wondering, how many more years will the say "within the next 30 years". They've been saying for at least the last 15-20.

Just best not to think about stuff like this. It wouldn’t take much too knock this country for a six. Already on shaker foundations. Stagnant, corrupt, regressive. Imagine what a massive natural disaster would do?? Maybe it would wake people up.

Earlier in the week, and article from an insurance company was talking about "$24 billion annually in gross domestic product is at risk in Tokyo, with interstate conflict the city's biggest threat." A drop in the ocean compared to 12.8 trillion dollars from a quake.

I once read that major quakes can happen every 70 years. At or near that time I was living in Japan. The last big Kanto earthquake was in 1922. I guess that means we are overdue. I love the safety of Japan, but the thought of experiencing a major earthquake still creeps into my mind from time to time!

How much is the Fukushima meltdown gonna cost to clean up? A lot more than this estimate. It’s quite obvious they did not include another meltdown in their calculations. In the event of another mega-quake a serious or a series of meltdowns is inevitable despite the new safety regulations. There is nothing safe or cheap about nuclear energy.

@michael Jackson

true mate.

Neither of which you can predict or prevent.

If the earthquake predictions are accurate then why hasn't California suffered a major quake since 1906.

Why going this way to say industrial damages of abundance of money? What about lives?

You know what's trippy. My Whole building just shook here in Fukuoka reading this.

Nope! Not the big one. Just a big truck.

These figures are presumably based upon rebuilding costs, though if such an Earthquake/Tsunami were to happen then, would there be anyone left to rebuild for, and would they not rather relocate to somewhere else ?

Mega earthquake could cause Y1,410 tril damage to Japan: 

¥1,410 trillion? There is no such number in English. It should be ¥1.41 quadrillion or septillion? Yet another junior high school translation from KYODO news.

within the next 30 year?

Well that narrows it down quite well :-/

Not could. WILL.