CASE STUDY: TOHOKU

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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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