Japan Earthquake Effecrs

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  • Created on: 02-05-17 13:50

BASIC INFORMATION

Japan is located at the meeting point of 3 tectonic plates, The Eurasian, Pacific and Philippines.

It is a convergent DESTRUCTIVE boundary, with faults running off the boundary.

Japan gets 30% of the world’s earthquakes every year.

The Tsunami and Earthquake both had devastating impacts, but the tsunami caused the most damage.

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BASIC INFORMATION

DATE: 11 March 2011

NO. INJURED: 6152

NO. DEAD: 15894

COST OF DAMAGE: $34.6 Billion

NOTES:

Laster 6 minuites

Magnitued of 9

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Social Effects

  • Electricity lost in 6 million homes, 1 million had no running water
  • Ruptured gas pipes led to fires.
  • Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water
  • The most worrying impact was on Japan’s famed nuclear power industry.  There were several nuclear incidents but the most notable was 3 nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant. This cause contamination of the sea and land, and force the evacuation of local residents.  A brave team of nuclear power plant workers battled bravely to prevent the nuclear reactors overheating completely and exploding.
  • This resulted in a social impact; residents within a 20 km radius of the Plant were evacuated.
  • In addition 130,000 buildings totally collapsed and another near 700,000 buildings partially damaged.
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Economic Effects

  • Estimates of insured losses from the earthquake alone ranged from US$14.5 to $34.6 billion. The
  • Bank of Japan offered 15 trillion Yen (US$183 billion) to the banking system to normalize market conditions.
  • Then Yen fell sharply but recouped mostly with in several hours.
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Environmental Effects

  • Ruptured gas pipes led to fires
  •  The most worrying impact was on Japan’s famed nuclear power industry.  There were several nuclear incidents but the most notable was 3 nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant. This cause contamination of the sea and land, and force the evacuation of local residents.  A brave team of nuclear power plant workers battled bravely to prevent the nuclear reactors overheating completely and exploding.
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