Fukushima Nuclear Energy Power Plant Earthquake

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Fukushima Nuclear Energy Power Plant Incident

Jeff Schinmann

Red Lodge Highschool

4/18/16

On Friday March, 11 2011 2:46 PM Japan was hit a by a huge earthquake lasting several minutes which had a magnitude of 9. The earthquake of coarse caused alot of damage but the earthquake also caused a huge tsunami which then hit Japan causing even more damage then the earthquake did. This killed thousands of people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings. The nuclear power plants in the area had all been shut down immediately once the earthquake hit and a few of the workers had died from the earthquake, many lost their homes and had to stay in inns, hotels, and other small building for the time being. The Fukushima power plant

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