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BigmanPigman

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8. I watch videos of the Boxing Day Tsunami

Reply to betsuni (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 07:16 PM

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and I can see how well prepared the citizens of Japan were. They have done so much to lesson the number of lives lost and buildings being dangerous. If that size quake and tsunami happened anywhere else there would have been much higher numbers.

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