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28 lut 2024 · The earthquake then led to a massive tsunami, causing severe damages all throughout the Tohoku region, both in terms of human loss and economic damage. The final cherry on top of this entire disaster was one specific disaster the tsunami causes: the nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant.
22 kwi 2021 · Japan’s Reconstruction Agency stated that more than 122,000 buildings were completely destroyed, 283,000 buildings were severely damaged, and 748,000 were partially destroyed, resulting in the direct financial damage from the disaster to be about US$154 billion dollars.
11 mar 2011 · Japan earthquake and tsunami, severe natural disaster that occurred in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, and killed at least 20,000 people. A powerful earthquake off the coast of Honshu also generated a series of large tsunami waves that devastated many coastal areas and triggered a major nuclear accident.
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approximately six minutes and caused a tsunami.
23 kwi 2021 · The tsunami destroyed over 130,000 homes, killed more than 15,000 people, and left thousands more missing. The earthquake and tsunami caused economic losses of approximately $210 billion for Japan, about 4% of their gross domestic product (Pinter et al., 2019).
13 mar 2011 · The tsunami set off warnings for much of the Pacific basin including the west coast of the United States and South America. Officials say waves have not caused major damage in Hawaii and pose no...
On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced the strongest earthquake in its recorded history. The earthquake struck below the North Pacific, 130 kilometers (81 miles) east of Sendai, the largest city in the Tohoku region, a northern part of the island of Honshu. The Tohoku earthquake caused a tsunami.
