Comment by Danox

It’s just the price of living on the Pacific ring of fire. What are you going do give up modern living in a modern country and live in tents, it is the price to pay living on or near tectonic plates, as a resident who has lived several 6.0-7.0 magnitude quakes (California) they are much easier to live through than living in hurricane or tornado alley or living in places where there is a deep freeze every other year, although in Japan, you can get the trifecta, a earthquake, Cyclone (in the south) and a deep freeze in the north Hokkaido.

Japan is a beautiful modern country and they have gotten through worse and they will get through this too.

I will admit in recent times the area between the Philippines north to the Kamchatka Peninsula is one most active areas on the planet at some point a 9.0 earthquake will happen in a major populated area on land but something that large usually happens once every 15 to 326 years.

The largest earthquake in California was 7.9, second largest 7.8 in San Francisco, the largest earthquake on west coast of North America 9.0 was Vancouver island in 1700.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/official17...

Coincidentally the Japanese recorded a mild tsunami at the time on their side of the Pacific.

Hurricanes and tornadoes are more immediate threats along with a heat wave or a cold snap.