The government denies the existence of the faultline, acknowledging only a 36km crack in the seafloor, which Ishibashi calls “a branched faultline of the main one.”
Ishibashi described the review as “illogical and unscientific and ignores residents’ safety.”
At least three of Japan’s 15 leading tectonics experts agree the larger fault exists, Toyo University professor Mitsuhisa Watanabe said.
“It’s impossible to prove the existence of the [main] fault, but we see circumstantial evidence,” Watanabe said.
“I’m not against nuclear power plants. But I say that the government’s calculation of active faults is wrong,” he said. “They should correct it, especially because it involves a nuclear plant.”
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