2011 “For regions vulnerable to quakes and tsunamis—especially if, like Japan, they hit the trifecta of having nuclear plants in the crosshairs of those natural disasters, there have been no scarier words than these: Japan is the most earthquake- and tsunami-prepared country on the planet,” said Newsweek. “States are falling woefully short on preparations.” Recently, some Southern California cities are slowly retrofitting thousands of buildings that have similar flaws to structures that collapsed in the February 7.8 magnitude Turkey-Syria earthquake that killed over 50,000 people.