Temporary Suspension of the Services Due to an Earthquake

[Kadara]

That would be a good reply if it wasn't for the fact the US is like 30X the size of Japan. So stating the fact the US experienced these they could be spread acrossed the whole country, while Japans may have been acrossed the whole country, the country is only the size of California. And to the question about how many they have normally I do not know. And for the fact you did not see the pattern shows me you do not understand seismology, not being rude just stating a fact.

If you don't know how many they normally have in a month, how can you say there's a pattern? If they average 40-50 earthquakes a month, then that would be normal. You'd have to look at the months before and see if that was an unusual number to see if there's a pattern.

[Zyeriis]

If they turned off the reactors, and no earthquake occured, then they would have been without sufficient power for no reason. The earthquake isn't even what caused the most damage, it was the tsunami.

[Babyj]

If they turned off the reactors, and no earthquake occured, then they would have been without sufficient power for no reason. The earthquake isn't even what caused the most damage, it was the tsunami.

.......What caused the tsunami I wounder....man this was on final Jepordy last night too....

[RAIST]

found some data tracking significant events (6.0) and they're pretty common I guess. Japan is touted as one of the more active areas, and leaders in the technology for construction and what-not for safeguarding against the damage.

http://www.world-earthquakes.com/ind...ist&zone=JAPAN

The sesmic tracking for the US shows that there are virtually continual minor events though here...I imagine it's even more common in Japan. I've seen minor shocks happen in the middle of interviews and people just act like it's normal rumble from an L-train or something.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...ar/eqstats.php

Raist

[Zyeriis]

.......What caused the tsunami I wounder....man this was on final Jepordy last night too....

No relevance to argument, there's not a country on Earth that has a decent plan on what to do should a tsunami occur. If a tsunami started in the Atlantic Ocean, the US would be fucked: NYC, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Maryland, Florida, would all be fucked.

[Babyj]

That is very true sir that's why I live in the mid-USA so I don't have to worry about Giant waves crushing my world. And yes I know that was a rude statement I just made, but honesty is usually jerk-ish

[Babyj]

If you don't know how many they normally have in a month, how can you say there's a pattern? If they average 40-50 earthquakes a month, then that would be normal. You'd have to look at the months before and see if that was an unusual number to see if there's a pattern.

Okay sorry if you take this as rude.......but congratulations you know how to make a pattern.

[Dreamers]

In 30days before the 9.0 earthquake, Japan experienced 48 earthquakes ranging from 3.5 to the 9.0. They also had in January a Volcano erupt. I find this interesting because, how did they not know that the big one that hit them was coming? I find this very hard to believe that not one siesmoligost in there country happened to not notice this pattern. I do understand that natural disasters are very unpredictable, but at least a slight thought that this could possibly happen. And please before you go all flame-tactular on this post please think about it for a moment, you might see where I am confused how they failed too see this was coming.

Even if there were an abnormal amount of siesmic activity leading up to this event, on 3/9/11 there was a 7.2 earthquake in Japan. That is a large earthquake in itself, and I dont think anybody would have thought it was just a foreshock for the strongest earthquake to hit Japan in recorded history, and the tsunami to follow.

[Silvermane]

My point about billing/servers was really if SE has any plans to actually move the servers if the rolling outages continue for signicantly over three weeks as has already been indicated. I find it remarkable that a global company suchas SE has had its MMO brought to a halt without any sort of longer term plan to relocate, if for example heaven forbid the reactor does go up. SE really seem to have put all the eggs in one basket so to speak, Imean other that for convience is there any reason the servers arent actually in the areas they serve? i.e a EU site, US site and a JP site. Especially when you consider that FFXIV is pretty much dead at least in the medium term and FFXV is apparrently in trouble too.

[Kadara]

Okay sorry if you take this as rude.......but congratulations you know how to make a pattern.

The problem is that apparently you don't know how to make a pattern. You look at one month's worth of earthquakes and ask why no one saw the pattern, when you can't go by one month alone. You need to look at the months/years before and see if the earthquake rate for that month was unusual.