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Unread 03-15-2011, 09:31 PM
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Food for thought: apart from the reactor problems, there is the historical example from 1707, when an estimated 8.6 level quake preceded the last major eruption by Fuji by about 49 days. Tokyo and the wider urban sprawl far exceeds anything present in 1707. It puts one in mind of the Lisbon earthquake that inspired Voltaire's Candide, and of course the possibility of a replay of Pompeii in the vastly overbuilt modern Naples area.
Here's one link more or less at random to the 1707 matter: Fuji.

On the matter of reactor use and design and what should be  vs. what is likely to be in New York or elsewhere, I am an interested amateur but wish to withhold comment.
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