Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
smithsonianmag.com
Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
1–10 of 66 posts
Re: Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
#2Reminds me of the hunger stones in Germany and neighboring countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone
Re: Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
#3I've always been fascinated by these because I love long term thinking. What current "tsunami stone" would you leave to future generations to prevent catastrophe?
Re: Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
#4I've always been fascinated by these because I love long term thinking. What current "tsunami stone" would you leave to future generations to prevent catastrophe?
[dead]
Re: Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
#5I've always been fascinated by these because I love long term thinking. What current "tsunami stone" would you leave to future generations to prevent catastrophe?
I think the obvious answer in the modern world would not be a phsyical one, but some sort of measure of wealth inequality. At some point, if too few have too much it destroys a country from the inside out over the long run. It does far more damage than any tsunami ever could. I don't have a number or exact measure in mind, but that would be the warning I would leave to future generations.
Re: Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
#61896 is pretty recent actually I thought they were like thousands of years old
Re: Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
#7I've always been fascinated by these because I love long term thinking. What current "tsunami stone" would you leave to future generations to prevent catastrophe?
Depends on how metaphorical and/or political you want to get.
Arguably books could be considered warning waystones, but that's a stretch in this context.
Physical monuments though, we have loads, lots of war memorials are/were intended as warning about the cost of war.
Auschwitz-Birkenau being left as as it is could be considered another.
If you want to get really close to similar intentions there are the long term nuclear waste warnings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...
A bit more esoteric (and less warningy) and you get the signals we send in to space intentionally as a time-capsule/marker for potential alien contact.
Re: Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
#8Reminds me of the forest inscriptions in the mountains of Lebanon which date from the time of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (~100 AD): Lebanese cedar wood was prized for shipbuilding and forests were decimated due to heavy logging. Nice to see that nature conservancy was alive and well, even 2000 years ago.
Re: Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
#9This is a deeper dive on the stones and their locations. Please note that 317 stone tablets were built after the 2 tsunamis, 125 (40%) of them were washed away or destroyed by the 2011 tsunami. https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/cartography-power/incomp...
Re: Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)
#10The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake of 1700 was dated using Japanese tsunami records: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996Natur.379..246S/abstra...