{"id":4935,"date":"2013-03-21T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T02:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2013-03-21T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T02:30:54","slug":"nankai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2013\/03\/nankai-4935.html","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Methane Extraction Could Trigger Tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan is where the word tsunami originated – because they get more than their fair share. Just over 2 years ago the T\u014dhoku tsunami<\/a> killed more than 15,000 people and triggered a nuclear disaster. You could be forgiven for thinking that is as bad as it can get – but the reality is much worse tsunamis can and will occur. A new report suggests that a 9.0 earthquake in the Nankai Trench, off the coast of Japan, could kill 300,000+ people and cause damage in the billions. It could also displace 10 million people, or 8% of the population. Many of those people would be away from home for months or years, and cause a significant strain on the economy…<\/p>\n

Major quakes in the Nankai Trench happen every 100-150 years, and thankfully the last one (1330 deaths) was as recent as 1946, meaning Japan isn’t overdue for another, and has time to prepare.<\/p>\n

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HOWEVER, it just so happens that Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation<\/a> has begun extracting methane from that very same trench, and there is a\u00a0possibility\u00a0that doing so could trigger an \u00a0earthquake. Just like the nuclear accident, that would definitely be an avoidable<\/em> tragedy.<\/p>\n

Full story at The Extinction Protocol<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japan is where the word tsunami originated – because they get more than their fair share. Just over 2 years ago the T\u014dhoku tsunami killed more than 15,000 people and triggered a nuclear disaster. You could be forgiven for thinking that is as bad as it can get – but the reality is much worse tsunamis can and will occur. A new report suggests that a 9.0 earthquake in the Nankai Trench, off the coast of Japan, could kill 300,000+ people and cause damage in the billions. It could also displace 10 million people, or 8% of the population. Many of those people would be away from home for months or years, and cause a significant strain on the economy…
\nMajor quakes in the Nankai Trench happen every 100-150 years, and thankfully the last one (1330 deaths) was as recent as 1946, meaning Japan isn’t overdue for another, and has time …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tsunami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4939,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/4939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}