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    The convergence of three separate disasters in Fukushima Prefecture – earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis – is not only unique in terms of its scale and complexity, but also about the complicated interaction of health problems to which it may have given rise. The great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake that killed over 6,000 people in 1995 showed that in Japan disasters can affect different population groups with differing severity and that the elderly are especially vulnerable. For many…

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    equip buildings to better uphold in the tremors. Although this massive earthquake damage toll could have been much more overwhelming, for its size it was not. Nonetheless, maintenance and cleanup efforts are just begging and will continue. Still a tsunami alert is in affect causing approximately one million to evacuate the coast to higher ground. Already more than fifteen foot waves have hit the coast. Beyond twelve aftershocks with the magnitude…

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    make the boundary between the North American and the Pacific plate. Paragraph B During the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake a lot of buildings and properties were destroyed. The earthquake caused a tsunami and many landslides that destroyed Valdez, Anchorage, and Seward. The earthquake caused the tsunami by making a part of the seafloor elevate. Eventually, because of the earthquake the town of Valdez was moved because it was not stable. This killer quake was so strong that it released twice…

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    positive and negative, it’s down to which side you see.” This quote directly corresponds with the accident in Fukushima. On March 11th, 2011, an earthquake struck this area in Japan; this earthquake had a magnitude of 9, which triggered a disastrous tsunami that reached wave heights of over 120 feet. The power of this natural disaster was unbeknownst to Japanese citizens and government, although some of the effects that it caused could have been much less if proper precautionary measures were…

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    don’t concern themselves with them overly. Some of them are so minor that they barely even stir comments; others perk up their ears a little bit, point out the earthquake to the co-workers and get back to work” (Documentary: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011 1). At two forty-five local time, the earthquake hit off the Northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan’s main island. With a magnitude of nine, the earthquake was one- hundred more times more powerful than predicted. With this magnitude, it…

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    form rift valleys. Transform boundaries slide, and convergent boundaries collide.Eventually, the stress builds up and once it’s released it sends out seismic waves being sent out which produces an earthquake. Once this earthquake has hit Japan a tsunami follows. Sometimes an earthquake can even make an active volcano build up more pressure and explode.Plate boundaries is also where volcanoes and earthquakes are formed. Earthquakes are vibrations in the ground that result from different faults,…

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    natural disasters. An earthquake is a sudden and violent shaking of the ground. They are a big threat to people because they cause tsunamis, fires, and buildings to crumble on people. One of the biggest earthquakes was the great Chilean earthquake. The quake happened on May 22, 1960 near Valdiva (geology.com). The damage that the great Chilean earthquake caused (including tsunami damage) cost more than 500 million U.S. dollars (NOAA.gov). After this earthquake happened there were initially 717…

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    earthquake was centered 130 km off the shore of Sendai Myagi on the east coast of Honshu Island. Consequentially, the island to move four meters to the east and surrounding coastlines were subsided by up to one meter. The earthquake also created a tsunami reaching as high as 40 meters. At the time of the earthquake, there were 11 nuclear reactors operating in the region. When the earthquake struck, all 11 shut down automatically and available power was used to run the cooling pumps at most of…

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    The Role of Forensic Science in Mass Disasters Mass disasters are an all too familiar reality. The cause of such occurrences can be natural or human influence. Natural disaster include hurricanes, tornados, and volcanos amongst other occurrence (Sudoyo, Widodo, Suryadi, Lie, Safari, Widjajanto, Kadarmo, 2008). Un-natural, or those occurring due to human involvement, are bombings, plane crashes, or mass shootings. Mass disasters usually require extensive logistical support (Prinz, Carracedo,…

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    magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami with waves peaking at 17 meters hit Japan on March 11, 2011. Three of the reactors at Fukushima overheated because the cooling systems failed after a tsunami flooded the power station and disabled the reactor cooling system which causing core meltdowns and make reactors impossible to restart . This was compounded by hydrogen gas explosions and released large amounts of radioactive material into the air, and the releases continue to this day. The accident…

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