Rande-san,
The total death counts 5,083 today. What a sad disaster! Many old houses
collapsed at once but modern buildings got crushed at the same time. The worst
thing after the quake was fire in this case. Nothing was done and fire lasted
for hours.
I know about San Andreas Fault. You can say our country is covered too many
faults and all of us live on them.
Masamichi