Impacts of Earthquake Activity in Japan
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- Created on: 12-05-21 10:22
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- Impacts of Earthquake Activity in Japan
- Social Impacts
- 16000 people injured
- 2/3 victims over 60
- 90% deaths due to drowning
- rest but being burnt or crushed by buildings
- crematorium destroyed + large number dead = mass graves
- children at school separated from families
- 2000 school children orphaned or lost one parent
- huge loss of schools + health centres
- Political Impacts
- government reluctant to accept aid from other countries
- Environmental Impacts
- farmland contaminated by salt from sea water
- unusable
- unsaitary water
- forest designed to breakwater failed
- mountains
- triggered landslides
- liquefaction
- transfer of sediment from seabed to land
- farmland contaminated by salt from sea water
- Economic Impacts
- cost of rebuilding = £181 billion
- 45,000 buildings destroyed
- 143,000 buildings damaged
- 230,000 vehicles destroyed/damaged
- 15 ports affected
- 10% fishing ports damaged
- 4.4 million households losing electricity
- due to shut down to fukushima
- nuclear powerpland damaged
- 30km evacuation zone around powerplant (contaminated by radiation)
- several power cuts lasting 3-4 weeks
- due to shut down to fukushima
- 23 train stations swept away
- 2 oil refinerys set on fire
- 10 days to put out
- bridges damaged
- 25 million tonnes of debris created
- costly clean up
- stock market fell
- sony + toyota affected by shortage of electricity
- Social Impacts
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