>> ^sanderbos:

Can someone speak to the validity of this video? I am amazed by it, but don't understand it.
I never heard the ground would keep moving after a quake completed (but living in the Netherlands means I know nothing of earth-quakes)? I also wouldn't think that with the amazing forces at work below the surface, on the surface it would manifest at points where one kind of man made street would meet another kind of man made street (why is the movement among the seams of the pavement, instead of just a new crack at a random point in the street)?


Because the seams are the weakest parts. I haven't seen it firsthand, but there are other videos out there of the same phenomena. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the video was taken on the Tokyo Bay Landfill.

^ true, but my previous post was based on an interesting hypothetical, conjured up by your closing bit, "The sheer propaganda value one gains by being on d..."
which is one of the things art of war was all about.

as in, if the US preempts pearl, your opening premise. due to japanese naval buildup, they freak, summer of '41, bomb tokyo bay or something.

well, there's your sheer propaganda value, right? maybe it's not just japan that thinks that was uncalled for, and sides with them. maybe a desire to kick our ass is what finally unites japan and china. russia chimes in, britain disowns us, canada and mexico start looking at us funny...