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17 Cards in this Set
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Magnitude |
9 HIC |
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Time |
2:46 |
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Epicentre |
45 miles east of Tohoku |
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Focus |
20 miles |
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Shaking |
6 minutes |
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Boundary |
Destructive, Subductive - Pacfic and North American plate |
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Effects |
Japan was largely prepared for the earthquake and many buildings remained standing afterwards, but it was not prepared for the subsequent Tsunami. |
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Tsunami |
A tsunami measured at anywhere from one meter to 7.3 meters hit at various places along the coast, while a 10-meter tsunami was seen at the port in Sendai, near the epicentre. |
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Deaths |
16,000 |
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Injured |
6,000 |
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Buiding damage |
130,000 destroyed
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Communication |
Severe damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas and a dam collapse |
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How man homes left without electricity or water? |
4.4mil no electric 1.5mil no water |
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Tsumami |
caused nuclear accidents, primarily the level 7 meltdowns at 3 reactors in the Fukushima Power plant. at least 3 nuclear power stations suffered explosions due to hydrogen build up |
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Displaced |
340,000 people |
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Management |
buildings made earthquake proof with their foundations children in school trained to be prepared by earthquake drills taken into stimulaters after 1995 kobe earthquake advances GIS was put in place and the most advanced earthquake and tsunami early warning system put in place japanese media televise and text people warnings
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Responses |
residents within 20km radius of Fukushima power plant were evacuated recomened at 80km japanese gov deployed the self defence forces and many countries sent out search and rescue teams to help search for suvivors res cross gave $1 billion
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