Quote Originally Posted by RyougaZell
Japan has always been a sismic area. So my guess is that is buildings are heavily reinforced to take the usual punishment of their small earthquakes. Yet they were obviously not prepared for a Richter Magnitude 8. At least that is how I feel about its current state.
It's a mistranslation by BSS, as mentioned on their site.

According to them, the scale used in Japan isn't the Richter scale, but a different on where it ranges from 0(or 1?) -7.

Magnitude 8.0 means it was an earthquake of a power previously unrecorded, and never thought to be measured by the creators of the scale.

I liked the panicking Mirai. It portrays very well how relatives act when family members are in trouble.