Japan tsunami 2011
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- Created on: 07-01-14 09:58
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- Tsunami,japan 2011
- nature and additional info
- 9.0 magnitude
- japan gets 30% of volcanoes
- biggest recorded in japan
- focus depth of 32km
- causes
- subduction of oceanic pacific plate beneath eurasian plate
- destructive margin
- many faults run off the boundary
- effects
- 20,000 deaths
- 200,000 injuries
- 1.2 million homes without power
- 1.4 homes without water
- 4,700 homes destroyed
- responses
- tsunami warning extended to 50 nations
- t.v. broadcast to residents warning of tsunami
- 91 countries offered aid
- british rescue teams arrived in japan to search for survivors
- 34.6billion insurance costs
- nature and additional info
- responses
- tsunami warning extended to 50 nations
- t.v. broadcast to residents warning of tsunami
- 91 countries offered aid
- british rescue teams arrived in japan to search for survivors
- 34.6billion insurance costs
- many faults run off the boundary
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