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I'm sure everyone in the hospital and with collapsed houses would agree with your assessment that it's not a big deal.
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Okay. Let's make every such instance news?

HN is exaggerating to feel close to the action. It's childish.

There is a trench off of Tokyo that is likely to rupture in our lifetimes, and people who have other people to check on don't care about HN's disaster fantasies.

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The HN audience decides what is top news of the day, that’s the whole principle this website is based upon
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273 people died from a 7.0 earthquake in Kumamoto in 2016.
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