My first mental reaction to the media reporting the casualties from the 3.11 Japan earthquake amounts to more the 20,000 persons; the effect can be small if the casualties are spatially dispersed. Indeed, the quake was strongly felt in most of the eastern half of the country; but casualties hardly occurred from the shake itself but mostly from the tsunami that reached the Pacific coastlines 30 - 60 min after the earthquake. The casualties are concentrated in three prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi an
My first mental reaction to the media reporting the casualties from the 3.11 Japan earthquake amounts to more the 20,000 persons; the effect can be small if the casualties are spatially dispersed. Indeed, the quake was strongly felt in most of the eastern half of the country; but casualties hardly occurred from the shake itself but mostly from the tsunami that reached the Pacific coastlines 30 - 60 min after the earthquake. The casualties are concentrated in three prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi an