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Living with earthquakes - Japan - AC - Coggle Diagram
Living with earthquakes - Japan - AC
Tectonic setting
Japan experiences 400 earthquakes everyday
Since 2000 23 earthquakes of 7.0 Mw have occurred causing 16,000 fatalities
one of the most tectonically active zones in the world
Four tectonic plates meet
movement along plate boundaries just offshore = risk of tsunamis
Tohoku earthquake - 2011
facts
9.0 Mw
tsunamis reaching 40.5 m
1 of top 5 since 1900
lasted 6 minutes
sea bed rose by 7m
Social impacts
16,000 dead 90% from drowning
mass graves to stop diseases
2000 children orphaned
Infrastructure destroyed
schools destroyed
Communities relocated
Economic impacts
45,000 building destroyed
15 ports impacted
shut down of 11 nuclear reactors
meltdown of reactor cores leading to the release of radioactivity
Transport infrastructure badly hit
23 train stations swept away
Costly clean up operation - 25 million tonnes of debris
Stock market fell
Political impacts
Increased GOV debt
movement against nuclear power
political fall out from Fukushima nuclear accident spread around the world