Living with Earthquakes - Japan
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- Created on: 07-02-22 08:48
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- Living with Earthquakes - Japan
- 400 earthquakes/day - since 2000 23 7.0Mw Earthquakes - 16k fatalities
- Tectonic Setting
- Movements along plate boundaries offshore Japan - risk of tsunamis
- Pacific coastal zone particularly vulnerable highly populous (Tokyo 36mil, Osaka 19 mil etc.)
- Movements along plate boundaries offshore Japan - risk of tsunamis
- Tohoku
- Political impacts
- Japanese gov injected millions of yen, increased gov debt
- Large popular political movement against nuclear power emerged
- Radiated to Western Europe with Germany justifying anti-nuclear views.
- Economic impacts
- Repair cost roughly £181 billion
- 47,500 buildings destroyed
- 230,000 vehicles destroyed
- 15 ports damaged
- 4.4 million households lost electricity
- shutdown of 11 nuclear reactors
- Fukushima plant was decommissioned
- release of radioactivity causing 30km evacuation zone
- also affected fishing industry in the Pacific Ocean
- release of radioactivity causing 30km evacuation zone
- Fukushima plant was decommissioned
- Transport infrastructure decimated, 23 stations swept away
- Stock market collapse with damage to Sony, Toyota, Panasonic
- Social impacts
- 16k fatalities, 6k injuries
- infrastructure damage meant dead body handling was difficult
- mass graves
- infrastructure damage meant dead body handling was difficult
- 100,000 children displaced as consequence
- At one primary school 74/108 students perished
- Destruction of infrastructure (housing, schools, health centres) took 5 years to repair
- 16k fatalities, 6k injuries
- 11 March 2011, 9.0 Mw earthquake occurred on Pacific-North American plate boundary
- Epicentre was 70km offshore of Honshu
- the island moved 2.4m East
- seabed rose by 7m and moves westwards 50m
- 40.5m tsunamis
- reached as far as 10km inland
- waves of up to 2.4m caused $10mil damage in California + Oregon
- Aftershocks of up to 7-8Mw
- Epicentre was 70km offshore of Honshu
- Political impacts
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