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Old 2011-04-02, 19:26   Link #2085
Vexx
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
What was "unexpected" is that the elevation of the land UNDER the seawall and the towns behind them dropped almost 3 meters during the quake. Seawallls that WOULD have worked were now 3 meters lower when the waves arrived.
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