Except that, in living memory, we are not aware of a tsunami of such magnitude ...
from recent memory only!
Janic wrote:
So if the tsunami caused victims (which would not have taken place if the populations had settled on the heights) [*] there would have been only a few victims and it would have stopped there.
Well, of course, fishing ports and agricultural plains must be installed in the mountains, that's obvious!
a) with current cars, it only takes a few minutes to descend from a height (no mountain, there are not many on the slopes) and the same for agricultural plains, but naturally man goes the easiest, the most practical, with its risks.
so:
The San Andreas fault, located in California, is a geologic fault, in strike, at the junction of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. This great fault which passes in particular by San Francisco and Los Angeles causes very important and devastating earthquakes in California. posting.php? mode = edit & f = 45 & p = 436678it is not for the fishery or its agricultural plains and everyone knows it will blow up one day or another, but humans congregate in it despite the danger. This is the game of Russian roulette!
Can we say the same thing about the inhabitants of the Roya Valley devastated last December? "They should have lived elsewhere ..."
Exactly, they believed that this would never happen to them despite the obvious signs that things are changing like the weather. Affectively, it is indeed dramatic, but 'the unconsciousness of the danger leads one to believe that there will never be any ... and after that it will not be repeated!
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré