Earthquakes

why is Japan susceptible to this type of disaster?

• Japans surface has tectonic plates that move many inches per year
• the movement can cause great distortions that results in earthquakes
• Pacific and Philippine techtonic plates lye under Japan

What does Japan do to prepare for Earthquakes?

• constructing buildings which are often swinging in their foundation
• so that they are able to buffer from much of the earthquake shaking.
• Every schoolchild in Japan is familiar with earthquake drills

How has the technology/preparation improved?

• Japans Meteorological Agency forecasts warnings for the public 
• they automatically analyze and predicts the rough area of  the epicenter 
• back then they didn't have the technology to do this

Most recent disaster in Japan of that kind, Explain?

• 2 days ago in Aomori, Japan there was an earthquake March 3, 2014 
• had a 4.6 magnitude
•  104 km depth

Worst Earthquake in Japanese history , Explain?

• Japan is one of the worst places to get earthquakes in the world
• About 1,500 earthquakes strike the island nation every year
• Great Kanto earthquake in 1923
• a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck the Kanto plain on the island of Honshu
• killed 142,800