Japan Earthquake

2011 THE EARTHQUAKE 11 11 MARCH 2011 JAPAN EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI 2:46PM 5 MINS I 24 KM SENDAI 38.297 °N 142.372°N The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tõhoku on Friday, 11 March 2011. It was the most power ful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan, and one of the five most powerful earthquakes in the world since modern record keeping began in 1900. THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU MAGNITUDE NIIGATA 9.0 FUKU KOBE NANKAIDO THE QUAKE MOVED NUMBER OF ENTIRE ISLAND OF JAPAN AFTERSHOCKS HISTORY OF EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN 2.4M 900 Japan is a dersely populated land nation in the northwest Pacific and is a part of the Ring of Fire' chain of earthquake prone islands on the Pacitc Rm As a result, the Japanese pecple have endured massive carthquakes throughout their history Japan is so quake prone that minor carthquakes are an almost monthly aapect of Iite for the Japanese CLOSER TO NORTH AMERICA AND MORE NANKAIDO 8.1 THE TSUNAMI 1946 FUKUI 7.3 SENDAI NIIGATA 9.0 KOBE 1948 7.5 6.9 ------------ PEAK HEIGHT 2011 1964 40.5M 1998 EQUIVALENT To 13 STORY BUILDING THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE DISASTERS The tsunami was caused by 5 to 8 meters of upthrust on a 180-km wide seabed at 60 km offshore from the east coast of Tohoku t resulted in major destruction along the Pacific coastine of Japan's nerthern islands and resulted in the less of thousands of ives and $309 BILLION devastated entire towna 12345 A THE DISTANCE THE TSUNAM TRAVELLED INLAND TIME PEOPLE HAO BEFORE TSUNAMI HIT NUMER OF PEDPLE WHD EVACUIATED AFTER THE TSUNAM WARNING $100 BILLION $81 BILLION 9.6 KM 8 MINS ONLY 42% $42 BILLION $29 BILLION CASUALITIES CAUSE OF DEATH JAPAN KOBE HURRICANE NORTHRIDGE SICHLAN EARTHOUAKE EARTHOUAKE KATRINA EARTHOUAKE EARTHQUAKE 500 PEOPLE APAN 2011 JAPAN 10S us sods uS D04 CHNA 2000 DEATHS 15,856 CRUSHED UNKNOWN BURNED BREAKDOWN OF GENDER VS AGE LNKNOWN 706 S06 INJURED 6,027 MISSING 3,070 405 DROWNED 306 92.4% 206 06. UNDER 9 1600 L00 A00 1200 M00