Any true expert would have known that could happen. We have plenty of prior experience with major displacements. Tens of feet is not unusual for a massive event. The 1964 Alaskan earthquake had similar measured vertical displacement on land, with even higher displacement suspected on the sea floor. The 1960 Chile earthquake had somewhat less vertical displacement, but similar magnitude.
Geologists have plenty of experience with events of this size, given that it happened at all, the specific results were not out of the ordinary for an event of that size.
I'd have thought so.
I edited the papers of one of Taiwan's top . . . scientists
They seem quite candid there.
But so many here seem to be of the naysaying crowd about future possibilities--insisting that super massive, super dramatic things just do not happen in geology. That geology is all about incremental things over millenia.
Glad some are different. What's the percentage of them who have a more realistic perspective?