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   publius (publius@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 03:06:19 JST publius

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   In many parts of Japan, they don't even have gas lines. As a legacy of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, it's all bottle gas in the Tokyo area.

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     yacowaco@mastodon.sdf.org's status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 03:06:20 JST yacowaco

     I grew up with gas stoves and always loved them but then I lived in Japan and we had a gas heater. I questioned this, given it was an earthquake zone, but the residents assured me it was safe. That was until the Kobe earthquake where fires from gas lines burned the equivalent of 70 city blocks.