Magnitude 9 ’super-gigantic’ earthquake IMMINENT – and it could be WORSE than Fukushima
A MEGA earthquake as big as magnitude 9 is imminent with fears it will be as big, if not bigger, than the one that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
By Henry Holloway
DailyStar.co.uk
20th December 2017
Japanese government officials have warned a quake as large as the 2011 disaster is overdue and “impending”.
Tokyo disaster experts at the Earthquake Research Committee have predicted a 70% chance of a magnitude 8 to 8.6 earthquake hitting the northern-most island of Hokkaido.
And there is an up to 40% chance of this mega-quake reaching “super gigantic” magnitude 9.
Japan was devastated in 2011 when a magnitude 9 “mega thrust” earthquake struck off the coast in the early hours of March 11.
Sixteen thousand people died in the ensuing tsunami which destroyed more than 127,000 buildings and triggered the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear reactor.
The disaster – known as the 3.11 Earthquake – was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful of all time.
And now Japan fears a disaster as big or bigger is due within just three decades.
Experts at Hokkaido University carried out the study based on data from the past 400 years.
They said the cycle lasts between 340 and 380 years, and Japan is now well within this time range.
It was regarded as the worst crisis to hit Japan since the end of World War 2.
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