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Great Sendai Earthquake, image, image - Coggle Diagram
Great Sendai Earthquake
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Epicentre
80 miles (130 km) east of the city of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture
How many people died?
More than 15,500 people died
It was preceded by several foreshocks, including a magnitude-7.2 event centred approximately 25 miles (40 km) away from the epicentre
After the earthquake
it was evident that the earthquake and tsunami constituted one of the deadliest natural disasters in Japanese history
by the end of 2011 it had been reduced to some 19,300.
electric power was knocked out, and water and sewerage systems were disrupted
Significant concern
The reactors at the three nuclear power plants closest to the eathquake’s epicentre were shut down automatically following the temblor
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