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Scale of Japan quake-tsunami destruction revealed

As Japan begins the process of recovering from Friday’s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, the enormity of the task facing the country has become clear.

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John Caruana

Mar 15th 2011, 08:27

the biggest problem i see is time.

Joseph W. Galea

Mar 15th 2011, 09:11

Jonathan, I hear you but, the only escape is to pray that the situation will never happen in Malta. Because if it ever does, to the same extent as in Japan, there wil be nothing left except barren rock, if that.
You are talking an earthquake and tsunami of Japan's magnitude (or even less) unleashed on a 100+ sq kms island.
Just hope and pray that it will never happen.

J.Xuereb

Mar 15th 2011, 09:28

Well, I think we should even forget that parts of Malta could be saved of such a strong Tsunami as this. The thing is so strong that it would flow and swipe the whole island in an hour!!!! Forget it would hit just the low-lying cost, because the area it can cover is immense!!!

MC Borg

Mar 15th 2011, 09:30

You have a point, however I doubt that if it ever had to occur here, we would manage to get out of it, considering that Malta is a small island.

G.Bugeja

Mar 15th 2011, 10:30

if you watch videos of this tragedy you'll notice that only the low lying flat areas got hit bad..
it was also said that the ocean levels rose by 4 stories, (around 13m) that means that since Malta has few low lying flat land, a tsunami like this would only hit places on the east side of malta, (M'Xlokk, B'Buga, M'Scala, 3 cities, Marsa, Valletta, Gzira, Sliema etc...) high ground would be relatively safe...

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