The difference between the magnitude of disasters this author talks about and illustrates is hilariously enormous. Like I've seen actual typhoons, you can't even stand straight in the wind, but the panels of them outdoors during the storm chapter was just like a moderate rain at worst. Now there is a nation-affecting earthquake that's only a mag 7 which, while pretty strong, shouldn't directly affect the whole country. Sure there aren't collapsed things everywhere, which I expect from Japan, but how did it affect the whole country yet not affect the city enough to shutter every cafe.