More Explanations

http://fatherdaughtertalk.blogspot.com/2011/03/japans-nuclear-plants.html

In the above post on Japan's nuclear power plants, I listed the Sendai Power Plant, about 12 miles south of Akune. Google Earth should pin-point it with ease.

Now we have reasons why design did not take into account tsunami such as were recently generated by the March quake:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12740649
15 March 2011 Last updated at 15:32 ET

Japan tsunami 'could be 1,000-year event'

By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC New

Tsunamis on the scale that hit north-east Japan last week may strike the region about once every 1,000 years, a leading seismologist has said.

Dr Roger Musson said there were similarities between the last week's event and another giant wave that hit the Sendai coast in 869AD.

It is not unusual for undersea earthquakes to generate tsunamis in this part of Japan. Offshore quakes in the 19th and 20th centuries also caused large walls of water to hit this area of coastline.

But previous research by a Japanese team shows that in the 869 "Jogan" disaster, tsunami waters moved some 4km inland, causing widespread flooding.

 Oh, well...
I guess someone figured the Sendai coast was due, not the area in north-east Japan.

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