@bigheadfred
No,they build Tsunami Walls,according to the engineers who designed them.
The problem was they based their calculations on high tides during hurricanes,not a tidal wave from a close off-shore earthquake.
Not really sure there IS such a thing as "an earthquake proof wall". Not even in theory.
The Great Wall Of China.
"Knowing" the Japanese I would think they would overbuild.
They are on the ring of fire. So volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc., or "normal" weather like hurricanes should have been accounted for.
My bet is , is that they went the way of economic soundness.
At first reporting, plus subsequent evaluations they were projecting 40-50 years to get that place under control. It is off the news radar. They "lost" at least one core. Meaning it had melted down somewhere beyond the reach of locating or monitoring it. Any robot they sent in was fried from high radiation before it could do any reporting.
And now it is fine? I highly doubt that. They somehow managed to stop the radiation leaked into the ocean? They can't even monitor the shit, at core. The truth, just like so many other truths, ain't gonna hit your front page.
I will link this quote if you want. Otherwise...
BEIJING (AP) _ A strong earthquake that killed 50 people in northern China earlier this month left many cracks in China’s Great Wall, state media reported Thursday.
The magnitude 6.2 quake on Jan. 10 left cracks in the wall in Shangyi, Zhangbei and Wanquan counties of Hebei province, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted He Yong, the director of the Beijing Administration of Cultural Relics, as saying.
The wall in that area was mostly built during the Ming Dynasty, from 1368-1644. About 20 buildings from that period also have cracks from the quake, he said.
The report did not say how serious the cracks were.
China’s Great Wall, began in the 3rd century B.C., runs 1,500 miles along the edge of the Mongolian plateau. Its width ranges from 12 to 40 feet, and its height from 20 to 50 feet.Yeah, the earthquake wasn't that strong, but still. Point being that portion of the wall was biult somewhere between 700 and 500 years ago.
The things that were built before that stopped everything.
Except the wrath of G-D. teehee