Japan Earthquake and Tsunami March 11, 2011
A 9.0 Richter scale earthquake occurred off of the coast of Japan causing a massive tsunami that would hit the eastern coast in the Fukashima District. According to Kapucu, N., & Özerdem, A. (2013) “The damage from the earthquake alone is believed to be limited due to the country’s strong building designs and strict building codes that are followed during construction. However, the thirty five foot wall of sea water that crashed onto the shore wrought the destruction. The tsunami damaged three nuclear power plants causing a massive release of radioactive material from their reactors. Over one hundred and thirty five thousand people had to evacuate from the area around the reactors (they have been unable to return to this day). These evacuees would reside in temporary shelters for less than eleven months.
According to Kapucu et al. (2013) “The existing leadership and their response was highly criticized in the wake of the disaster due to a lack of mitigation strategies for addressing nuclear emergencies, and for the government’s ineffective response and relief efforts”. The government should have been rightly criticized for allowing three nuclear reactors to be built on a coastal fault line. Japan has three major seduction zone fault lines just off of its …show more content…
The quake, which was the strongest to strike the region in more than 200 years, left over 200,000 people dead and some 895,000 Haitians homeless” (History.com Staff. (2011). Haiti was once referred to as the jewel of the Antilles, but since then the island has almost been wiped clean of all its trees. This has happen through massive deforestation by the local population as they have cut down the trees to make charcoal to cook with. Haiti is considered one of the very worst countries when it comes to its economy, corruption of its government and the wretched criminality of its
A 9.0 Richter scale earthquake occurred off of the coast of Japan causing a massive tsunami that would hit the eastern coast in the Fukashima District. According to Kapucu, N., & Özerdem, A. (2013) “The damage from the earthquake alone is believed to be limited due to the country’s strong building designs and strict building codes that are followed during construction. However, the thirty five foot wall of sea water that crashed onto the shore wrought the destruction. The tsunami damaged three nuclear power plants causing a massive release of radioactive material from their reactors. Over one hundred and thirty five thousand people had to evacuate from the area around the reactors (they have been unable to return to this day). These evacuees would reside in temporary shelters for less than eleven months.
According to Kapucu et al. (2013) “The existing leadership and their response was highly criticized in the wake of the disaster due to a lack of mitigation strategies for addressing nuclear emergencies, and for the government’s ineffective response and relief efforts”. The government should have been rightly criticized for allowing three nuclear reactors to be built on a coastal fault line. Japan has three major seduction zone fault lines just off of its …show more content…
The quake, which was the strongest to strike the region in more than 200 years, left over 200,000 people dead and some 895,000 Haitians homeless” (History.com Staff. (2011). Haiti was once referred to as the jewel of the Antilles, but since then the island has almost been wiped clean of all its trees. This has happen through massive deforestation by the local population as they have cut down the trees to make charcoal to cook with. Haiti is considered one of the very worst countries when it comes to its economy, corruption of its government and the wretched criminality of its