Tsunami - japan
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- Created on: 27-03-19 22:42
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- Japan, Sendai - Tsunami
- general info
- epicentre - 18.6 miles below western pacific
- Convergent plate boundary (pacific plate over Eurasion plate)
- Magnnitude of 8.9 (Earthquake)
- impacts
- social
- 20,000 dead
- 164,059 - households in the north of Japan didnt have electricity
- Economic
- Toyota and Nissan had to close 20 factories globally
- factories destroyed and power shortages - Industry destroyed
- Fukushima power plant damaged and released dangerous levels of radiation
- result in 7 nuclear Meltdowns
- Toyota and Nissan had to close 20 factories globally
- environmental
- Fukushima power plant damaged and released dangerous levels of radiation
- result in 7 nuclear Meltdowns
- 3-4% of Japan's rice was contaminted with sea water
- Agriculture near the plant was destroyed
- Agriculture near the plant was destroyed
- Fukushima power plant damaged and released dangerous levels of radiation
- social
- Responses
- 91 countries offered aid
- Japan self-defence force moved in immediately - all debris cleared within 2 days
- within an hr of Fukushima evacuation order - 185,000
- why vulnerable/unprepared
- Fukushima - seawall not high enough/cooling system failed
- not predicted the impacts of hazardon nuclear power stations
- lack of safety procedures/ not withstand Tsunami
- prepared for earthquake/ not for Tsunami
- Earthquake drills
- seawalls not high enough- but 40% had seawalls
- Fukushima - seawall not high enough/cooling system failed
- preparation (governance)
- good building strcture
- low levels of corruption
- 75% of buildings - Withstand earthquake
- well-dev. disaster plans
- vulnerable areas - 10m high wall
- reduce impacts
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- vulnerable areas - 10m high wall
- good building strcture
- general info
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