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Japan 2011 earthquake
Japan's tectonic setting
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However, these also bring the risk of tsunamis .
Pacific coastal zone is very vunerable: being densely populated and containing three large conurbations: Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya.
Impacts
Social
Killed 16000, injured 6000
Children seperated from families: 100,000 affected
Destruction of infrastructure: housing, schools, health centres, was devastating, reconstruction still occuring 10 years later.
Economic
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45,700 buildings destroyed, 143,300 damaged
Immediate shutdown of 11 nuclear reactors, leaving households without power.
30km evacuation zone around the Fukushima plant, due to a meltdown of reactor cores
Stock market plummeted after MNCs like Sony, Toyota and Panasonic were hit.
Political
Japanese government injected billions of yen, into especially the financial economy, to bring some stability
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