CASE STUDY: TOHOKU
- Created by: Jamie Grainger
- Created on: 11-04-17 22:07
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CASE STUDY: TOHOKU, JAPAN (MEDC)
- 11th March, 2011
- 9.0 on the Richter scale
- 100km east of Sendai
- 3000km of coastline affected
- Lasted 6 mintues, plus couple of afterschocks.
Causes:
- Destructive plate margin where the Pacific plate was being subducted by the North Amercian.
- A segment of rock around 200km long slipped and flicked upwards by 10m.
- Sudden uplift at the boundary caused tsunami.
- East edge of the Eurasian plate.
Social impacts:
- 2000 people killed
- Electricity lost in 6 million homes
- 1 million had no running water
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