Everyone's oars are in the water and pulling as hard as they can. Many, many countries have devoted assets to the Japanese circumstances and there will be no 'Wall Street Moment.' I'll go as so far as to say, there are more global assets in Japan now then ever before. THAT matters.
Strain from Japan earthquake may lead to more seismic trouble, scientists say (click title to entry - thank you)
By Joel Achenbach, Monday, April 11, 12:37 PM
Japan won’t stop shaking. Monday, one month after the horrific March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the island was rattled anew by an aftershock, this one measuring at magnitude 6.6. It was hardly a major temblor, but it was strong enough to knock out electricity briefly at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.
Four days earlier, a magnitude 7.1 quake led to four deaths and widespread power outages. With soldiers still looking for the bodies of thousands of people who vanished a month ago, Japan is coping with the painful reality that it is sits in a seismic bull’s eye.
Now scientists are warning that the March 11 event not only will lead to years of aftershocks but might also have increased the risk of a major quake on an adjacent fault. A new calculation by American and Japanese scientists concluded that the March 11 event heightened the strain on a number of faults bracketing the ruptured segment of the Japan Trench….
