japan

Question 1

How far does the continue to move each year?

Answer 1

8cm

Question 2

What collision between plates caused the tsunami?

Answer 2

Pacific towards the Eurasian plate

Question 3

What magnitude did it have?

Answer 3

9.0 on Richter scale

Question 4

How much water did the plates flick when the quake happened?

Answer 4

6km of water into air

Question 5

How fast were waves that hit the coast?

Answer 5

800km waves his coast in seconds

Question 6

How far underground did the tsunami occur at?

Answer 6

6km

Question 7

What did the shallow bed mean for the waves?

Answer 7

Waves travelled faster and varying depths meant verging speed and height of waves

Question 8

Where else did waves spread?

Answer 8

Waves at 800km/h spread towards other countries

Question 9

What effect did the tsunami have in the coast?

Answer 9

Coast sunk about 1m

Question 10

What effect did it have on Sendai?

Answer 10

It was the first area affected

Question 11

Which kind of waves hit first?

Answer 11

P waves

Question 12

What was situated 150km southwest?

Answer 12

Fukushima power plant

Question 13

Which three areas were affected first?

Answer 13

Ofunato, Sendai and Miyako

Question 14

What happened to the airport?

Answer 14

Destroyed

Question 15

What happened in Miyako?

Answer 15

10m wall failed to stop 10m wave

Question 16

What happened to the shoreline?

Answer 16

Subsided

Question 17

how many people homeless as of 2017

Answer 17

As of February 2017, there were still about 150,000 evacuees who lost their homes; 50,000 of them were

Question 18

how much in damaged

Answer 18

The total economic cost could reach up to $235 billion

Question 19

how many people died

Answer 19

The number of confirmed deaths is 15,894 as of June 10, 2016