'Lucky' is a relative concept
Living in Japan, we accept that a serious earthquake can come at any time, any place. We know that, but we don't really believe it. It's a vague hypothetical possibility, something as unlikely as winning the lottery — something you read about having happened in the 1880s or the 1920s, and which might happen again at some impossible-to-define point in the future.
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