Originally Posted by The Batlord

You watch too much news. This is a pretty clear case of you having no idea what's going on in one part of the world, but letting media alarmism inform your entire opinion. And yet you dismiss the possibility of being killed by a tsunami in Japan because you live in Japan and you know from personal experience just how unlikely that is. Why don't you just assume that your ignorance of the current events of anyplace that isn't Japan means that making the kind of claim you're making is premature at best, and idiotic at worst.