Here ya go … the aftermath and a reminder that earthquakes cannot be predicted (because their patterns are part of a "Complex System"):
Japan's seismologists blinded to March 11 quake: journal
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Japan's seismologists were so entrenched in outdated beliefs about seismic hazard that they became blinkered to the risk of the March 11 mega-quake, a commentary in a top science journal charged on Wednesday.
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Geller pointed the finger at a belief, entrenched for decades, that Japan faces imminent risks of a huge earthquake in a plate boundary off the southern coasts of Honshu and Shikoku.
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"This misleads the public into believing that the clock is ticking down inexorably on a magnitude-eight earthquake that is certain to strike the Tokai district in the near future," he said.
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"It is time to tell the public frankly that earthquakes cannot be predicted, to scrap the Tokai prediction system and to repeal the LECA," said Geller.
"All of Japan is at risk from earthquakes, and the present state of seismological science does not allow us to reliably differentiate the risk level in particular geographic areas."
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More evidence that we should all be more focused on Chaos/Complexity Theory, as our survival implicitly depends on it !
The arrogance here, is to ignore what we know, which is a mathematical certainty.
Nature at the macro scales,
does not allow predictability !
… This is in spite of the predictability of the laws of classical physics, which drive it all !
Cheers, Captain Chaos.