TECTONICS 1.1a

Question 1

How many countries offered Japan aid during the Tohoku EQ, 2011?

Answer 1

25

Question 2

How many deaths occurred in the Tohoku EQ?

Answer 2

15,000

Question 3

How many injured in the Tohoku EQ?

Answer 3

6,000

Question 4

How many buildings were destroyed by soil liquefaction during the Tohoku EQ?

Answer 4

30 buildings.

Question 5

What was the economic loss of the Tohoku EQ?

Answer 5

US$235million

Question 6

How many aftershocks?

Answer 6

Four

Question 7

What was the moment-magnitude of the aftershocks?

Answer 7

7.1

Question 8

The epicentre of the EQ was how many miles from the coast of Tohoku?

Answer 8

43 miles

Question 9

Which oil refinery caught fire?

Answer 9

Port of Sendai oil refinery

Question 10

Fukushima’s gas cooling system failed and broke. True or false?

Answer 10

False. The WATER cooling systems failed and broke.

Question 11

The back up power systems in Fukushima also failed. True or false?

Answer 11

True.

Question 12

The impacts of less nuclear powers raised what exports?

Answer 12

Oil exports

Question 13

Oil exports were raised particularly from where?

Answer 13

The gulf states like Qatar

Question 14

A 30ft high tsunami also occurred. True or false?

Answer 14

True

Question 15

What was the rate of travel of the tsunami?

Answer 15

700km/hr

Question 16

Looting, complaining and riots occurred. True or false?

Answer 16

False - atmosphere was very calm

Question 17

What did the Japanese media do?

Answer 17

They downplayed the extent of the events so as not to panic citizens.

Question 18

What was the radius of people evacuated by the power plant due to leaking radiation?

Answer 18

10 mile radius

Question 19

How many seconds after the EQ was P waves detected?

Answer 19

31 seconds.

Question 20

What service was back in operation the next day?

Answer 20

Shinkansen bullet train

Question 21

Japanese exports of what were highly affected?

Answer 21

Technological components