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Japan: Earthquake/Tsunami 2011

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

2011 JAPAN EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI

AREA OF NATURAL DISASTER AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

RED:AFFECTED CITIES, YELLOW: RADIATION EVAC. ZONE

STATUS

  • In the HDI index japan ranks in 10th place
  • often ranked the world's most innovative country
  • Japan is a first world country
  • Part of the Group of Eight (G8)
Photo by Luke,Ma

ECONOMY

  • third largest in the world by nominal GDP
  • world's second largest developed economy
  • Japan is the world's 3rd largest automobile manufacturing country
  • Japan has the world's largest electronics goods industry
Photo by Steve10003

AN ATTACK ON THE ECONOMY BY NATURE

SOMETHINGS WE ARE NOT PREPARED FOR!
Photo by marsmet526

ECONOMY AFTER THE DISASTER

  • Japan economy goes into free fall
  • Billions of yen into " quake budget"
  • Toyota, Nissan and Honda stop production
  • Sony suspended production at eight plants
Photo by maccath

HUMAN IMPACT

  • 2 million are without power
  • 1.4 million without water.
  • confirmed death toll is 15,883
  • Several power outages

RADIATION

THIS KID IS GETTING CHECKED FOR RADIATION EXPOSURE

JAPAN IS STILL RECOVERING

SCIENCE 1(WHO)

  • meeting point of 3 tectonic plates
  • Japan gets 30% of world’s earthquakes every year
  • convergent oceanic oceanic boundary

SCIENCE 2(WHAT)

  • 8.9-9.0 magnitude earthquake
  • Aftershocks as big as magnitude 6
  • Recorded as largest earthquake to ever hit japan
  • There were seven foreshocks
Photo by yisris

SCIENCE 3(WHEN)

  • 2 days after a 7.2 earthquake
  • March 11, 2011
  • It is a day to remember
Photo by RLHyde

SCIENCE 4(WHERE)

  • The epicenter 70 km east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku
  • the hypocenter at underwater depth of approximately 32 km
Photo by jetalone

EPICENTER OF EARTHQUAKE

SCIENCE 5 (WHY)

  • Pacific plate subducted the Eurasian plate
  • This caused a build up of strain energy
  • strain energy overcome frictional force holding the plates
  • This caused the earthquake
  • The earthquakes shock caused the tsunami
Photo by Tex Texin

THE END

Photo by Tc Morgan