Geography- case study-DW- tsunami- Japan Flashcards
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Q
Which plate boundaries caused it?
A
Pacific subducted beneath the North American (destructive)
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Q
When did it happen?
A
3rd March 2011
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Q
What was the earthquake that caused the tsunami on the Richter scales?
A
9.0
3
Q
Where was the epicentre?
A
- Off the east coast of Japan
- 400km North East of Tokyo
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Q
How high were the waves?
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Up to 10m high
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Q
How many deaths?
A
Over 15,000
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Q
How many people displaced from there home?
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300,000 people
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Q
What were the primary effects?
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- death
- 6000 injured
- people displaced from there homes
- 125,000 buildings swept away
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Q
What were the secondary effects?
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- Fires, damage and explosion at the Fukushima Nuclear power plant (causing radioactivity to leak)
- share prices fell and Japan had to give a large amount of money to stabilise the market
- cost of reconstruction over 181 billion yen
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Q
What were the short term responses?
A
- International aid sent from countries
- food and water distributed
- 300,000 people evacuated
- 20km exclusion zone around nuclear power plant
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Long term responses
A
- rebuilding of homes and infrastructure
- cleaning up of contamination and decommissioning of Fukushima said to take decades
- research to develop salt tolerant strains of rice to grow on agricultural land damaged by tsunami waves
