This is a question for the earthquake experts.

If you look at the USGS earthquake list you can see that on March 9, 2011 there was a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in the Japan area right around where the 9.0 earthquake occurred a few days later. And that 7.2 was followed by numerous strong aftershocks.

Shouldn’t people who are watching earthquake activity have spotted that and sounded an alarm? That area has fault zones everywhere. People have reportedly been saying that there was a lot of strain stored in those fault zones. And it was expected that it might eventually be released as a powerful earthquake.

Wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect that a powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake in a complex fault zone area might function as the “straw that broke the camel’s back” and trigger more and even stronger earthquakes in a type of Domino Effect?

Considering how much death and destruction that earthquake caused, one would think that someone should have noticed that and sounded some type of alarm rather than “play it safe” and sit back to see what happens!

Also,

We just saw Myth # 3 go into the dumpster along with those two other myths:

Myth # 1. “It is absolutely safe to drill for oil in deep water! And anyone who suggests otherwise is a politically incorrect alarmist who should be muzzled.”

Myth # 2. “Earthquakes can’t be predicted. They are completely random events. Every scientist on the planet agrees with that.”

Myth # 3. “Nuclear power plants are now so safe that nothing could ever happen to cause an accident.”

In fact, there was reportedly a serious problem in at least one of the Japan nuclear reactors. The cooling water ran low because a pump failed or something like that. The tops of the reactor rods were not cooled properly. And they believe that potentially explosive hydrogen gas was probably generated.

Also, in an emergency action they reportedly had to pump sea water into the reactor vessel to cool the reactors rods. I would expect that something like that could be quite dangerous. I would think that sea water would be much more reactive and corrosive when it came in contact with the materials in the reactor vessel. But they reportedly had no other choice.

How could they allow themselves to get into a situation like that? Why didn’t their engineers plan for such events? And how do they think they will ever get anyone in the future to believe that they can safely use nuclear energy or sell their nuclear plant technology to other countries?

These are personal opinions.