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?
Well, the USGS is the de facto global authority for a lot of this data collection and research. Their sources clearly show that this type of displacement is typical for seismic events of a certain size. They don't just have data from events in modern history, they have a ton of data for geological events that happened prior to a historical record. If you are looking for people under the illusion that cataclysmic shifts in the earth don't happen, the USGS isn't where you look for them. Some of the horizontal displacements for major earthquakes in the 20th century were as large as a quarter kilometer as well.