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On top of that, one of the toughest part could be the extent of the power outage.

It's reported at around 46000 homes, the region has many elders and the outage will impact air conditionners, but also medical equipment they keep at home and supporting appliances.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/55a0a3ebb9d0087ae8492ce85c...

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> TSMC, Sony, Fujifilm chips, imagers, materials plants evacuated

This makes me think, is it wise to build these places in regions with known earthquake trends.

Almost no earthquakes in Korea and Samsung fabs are also located in the most safe area within Korea.

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Japan itself is involved with a lot of the R&D, the factories are there because of that and because of major buyers also being there. It’s not like we’re going to evacuate the hundred million plus of Japan.
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It's a major reason why Arizona was selected for a US site.
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