Geography Earthquakes- Japan
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- Created on: 03-02-21 10:34
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- Japan Earthquake
- Tectonic Setting
- Experiences 400 earthquakes a day
- Vast amount of seismic energy
- Brings the risk of tsunamis
- Pacific coastline is venerable due to high population density
- The great East Japan Tohoku earthquake
- 11th March 2011
- Largest earthquake in Japan
- A 9.0 Magnitude
- undersea megathrust earthquake
- Large tsunamis were triggered
- Social Impacts
- claimed nearly 16,000 lives
- injured 6,000
- 2/3 were over the age of 60
- most deaths were burns and being crushed by buildings
- Mass burial in graves
- 100,000 children were affected with 2000 orphaned
- Economic Impacts
- The cost with reconstruction is at £181 billion
- 45,700 buildings were destroyed with 143,300 damaged and 230,000 vehicles
- 4.4 million households lost power
- 30km evacuation zone was set out by the nuclear station
- Transport infrastructure was badly hit with trains disrupted and stations swept away
- Political impacts
- The Japanese government injected billions of yen into the economy to bring some stability
- A large popular movement against nuclear power development
- Concerns over safety regulations and standards
- Political fallout from the Fukushima nuclear accident spread around the world.
- Tectonic Setting
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