[ExI] tsunami in japan

[Samantha Atkins]

On 03/11/2011 09:28 AM, spike wrote:
>
> Comparing yesterday's tsunami in Japan to the one in the Indian Ocean 
> on 26 December 2004: the death toll in this one will likely be on the 
> order of a tenth of a percent of the 2004 incident, yet the property 
> damage as measured in anything we recognize as currency will likely be 
> far greater in 2011 than in 2004.
>
> Currencies do odd things like that.
>

Also, this quake hit very densely populated areas with lots of very high 
ticket real estate, many businesses, power plants, fuel depots and 
infrastructure damaged or destroyed.  Japan is in for a rough time 
recovering.

- samantha

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