You've been taken in by the lies of the lying liars. NOAA controls an earthquake machine which can cause flooding. (The flooding capability is why NOAA won the inter-departmental wars to control the device, by the way.) The CIA got word that the Japanese were creating impossibly strong alloys in the Fukushima reactors, for use in their new line of combat robots, code-named Terminator. Careful, but speedy, planning by various US agencies determined that use of the earthquake machine was the least destructive way to disrupt the Terminator program. It had the added benefit of reducing the electric power available for the Japanese AI development effort, code-named Skynet.

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