Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami
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- Created on: 16-04-19 17:40
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- Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami 2011
- Effects
- Environmental
- Earth axis shifted by 25cm
- Earth changed shape
- Japanese coast moved 3m out to sea
- Coast dropped reducing tsunami defence
- Infrastructure destroyed
- Meltdown at Fukushima
- Liquefaction
- 10 billion tonnes water
- Sendai
- Trigger further south? Tokyo???
- Social
- 15,000 dead
- 5,000 missing, presumed dead
- Many lost everything
- 5,000 missing, presumed dead
- Radiation from Fukushima
- People evacuated
- Sendai
- Airport destroyed
- Temp shelters full
- Airport destroyed
- No power
- Schools and hospitals destroyed
- Hawaii evacuations
- Miramisanriku
- 50% people died
- 95% buildings destroyed
- 15,000 dead
- Environmental
- Causes
- Plate boundaries
- Destructive
- Pacific plate sinking under Eurasian plate
- Destructive
- Pacific Ring of Fire
- Extremely active tectonic area
- Plate boundaries
- Human Response
- Automatic warnings
- Mobile phones & TV
- 1-min earthquake
- 20-min tsunami
- Hawaii Pacific Earthquake facility
- Warned other Pacific countries
- Only one non-Japanese fatality
- Warned other Pacific countries
- Data collected for research
- Immediate response from Japanese military
- cleared debris
- International aid and rescue groups sent
- Earthquake drills saved lives
- No mass panic
- Automatic warnings
- Effects
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