What a century of earthquakes has taught Japan - BBC News

Monday's quake renewed Japan's collective trauma - but it's also a story of engineering success.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ReutersImage caption, A powerful earthquake on New Year's Day 2024 toppled houses in central JapanBy Rupert Wingfield-HayesFormer BBC Tokyo correspondentIt's been nearly 13 years since the devastating earthquake and tsunami that triggered an accident at a nuclear plant in Fukushima.

But memories in Japan are still fresh. And on Monday, all of them will have been brought back in to focus as the shaking began in Ishikawa and the tsunami alarms began sounding.

The warnings are not exactly unusual in Japan.

When I first moved there, I would leap out of bed at the slightest shaking of our building.

But within months, I was sleeping through the tremors. And in Japan, quakes quickly become a part of life. You get used to them, up to a point.

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