what happened there was a rare occurrence......and regular trains face the same problem......lived there 50 years and only seen shit like happen a few times....otherwise nothing major....Sorry Harry , I was out there after the "World Series" quake. I saw firsthand driving from SF to LA how the infrastructure held up.thats not the point of my comment....tedub said riding a train in earthquake country is kinda dangerous......when you live around earthquakes you learn how to live with them and build better infrastructure with earthquake standards....Except Japan doesn’t spend over a billion dollars for a decade and not even have a few miles of rail running over open flat ground.japan has earthquakes and they have high speed trains...you dont stop living just because you live where earthquakes happen.....Instead of wasting billions on a high speed rail line from LA to SF, over numerous fault lines, why not build desalination plants and pump the water to rebuilt reservoirs? How would you like to ride at 200 mph on a train during a earthquake? What were they thinking? You can get flights for $49.00. They need to stay out of the sun or at least wear a hat.