Japan Flashcards
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Q
What magnitude was the earthquake ?
A
9.0
1
Q
When did this earthquake happen?
A
11th March 2011
2
Q
Cause of tsunami ?
A
Japan is located on a destructive plate boundary.
- The pacific plate subducts under the Eurasian plate
- caused by the process not being smooth
3
Q
Tsunami size and speed?
A
It was 30m high
800km per hour
4
Q
How many people where killed and left homeless ?
A
15,400 killed and 2 million left homeless
5
Q
Other primary effects ?
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- 4 trains swept away a cruse ship swept away carrying over 100 people
- a dam north of Fukishima burst it’s banks
- Power and telephone line were destroyed
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Q
Secondary effects
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- 500,000 people forced to live in shelters after it
- Japan lost £90 billion pounds in shares over night
- Total cost to re-build £185 billion
- water borne diseases spread quickly
- power plant
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Q
Immediate response ?
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- 230 Japanese Red Cross teams sent out
- on the 2 pond of April America joined the hunt for bodies
- over $80 million was sent from all over the world
- the Maldives send 86,400 cans of tuna
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Long term responses ?
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- Japan reconsidered their energy program eg nuclear due to the plant melt down
- Japan now has the most advanced earthquake detecting system in the world
- Japan is now looking at new sea defences as their tsunami flood gates didn’t do much
