For nearly ninety years, the Golden Gate Bridge has survived earthquakes, violent Pacific winds, millions of vehicles, and one of the most corrosive environments in America.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsjAp18yAno

Japan to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, 15 years after Fukushima disaster

 https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/japan-to-restart-the-worlds-biggest-nuclear-power-plant-15-years-after-fukushima-disaster/1847018 

Apparently, some people thought that it was a good idea to build a Nuclear_Power_Plant close to an earthquake faultline. 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/22/japan-set-to-restart-worlds-biggest-nuclear-power-plant 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Site_layout Plus, built it closer to sea level so that it could be more vulnerable to a tsunami.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Japan#Strongest_earthquakes_by_prefecture_(since_1900) 

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/place/403203/earthquakes/date/largest.html

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h20002 

Perhaps there is a kind of wishful thinking going on, a belief that there won't be anymore big earthquakes in Japan. Just rub your tummy and pat the top of your head and all such dangers go away, because it could never happen again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_earthquake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Incidents_and_accidents_prior_to_March_2011 

While many want it to be fully dismantled, others want to boot it up again. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Dismantling_of_reactors  

https://earthquaketrack.com/p/japan/fukushima/biggest  

Perhaps if it can be built back better and bigger, there can be an even greater chance for it to become another disaster zone.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-of-2011 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-population-decline-60-minutes/

With less people being born in JAPAN, one might think that there will be less of a demand for energy.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/4199 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/asia/japan-biggest-population-decline-record-intl-hnk 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74dnzr4jdvo 

https://www.dw.com/en/japan-sees-record-drop-in-population-in-2024/a-73562758

Vancouver earthquake damage injuries deaths study

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-earthquake-damage-injuries-deaths-study

Why ‘The Big One’ could be worse than we thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1qr9qnWR7E

Cascadia: The Earthquake that will Destroy West Coast America? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR-8PZ_nCvE

The Really Big One; The Feared Cascadia 9.0 Earthquake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6UxFIK17w

San Andreas Fault: When the Big One Hits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGTv4XdZhko

Great Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7Qc3bsxjI 2016 CWU

Earthquakes and aging buildings in NYC

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/earthquake-new-york-city-aging-buildings/

So many older NYC buildings just weren't constructed to modern earthquake standards.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-trains-earthquake-mta-subway-bridges-tunnels-closures-delays/

Fortunately, this was nowhere as intense as what can happen in Taiwan, Japan, NZ or California.

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/26276/new-challenges-for-seismic-risk-mitigation-in-urban-areas/magazine

https://www.worldatlas.com/natural-disasters/the-12-most-earthquake-vulnerable-cities-in-the-world.html

Unfortunately, urban earthquakes can strike at any time without warning.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-10-most-earthquake-prone-countries.html