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March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m. local time, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake occurred off the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan. This ruptured a 500-kilometer-long fault zone. The epicenter was 130 kilometers off Sendai, Honshu; and was at 32 kilometers. The temblor violently shook northeast Honshu for six minutes, and collapsed its coastline by one meter. This thrust Honshu 2.4 meters eastward. The seismic waves on the Pacific Ocean floor set off tsunami waves traveling at the speed of a jet plane (about 700 kilometers per hour). Waves 3 to 38 meters tall pounded Honshu’s coastline, destroying towns and villages and flooding areas up to 10 kilometers inland. Tsunami waves also swept across the Pacific, causing damage or disruptions in Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
Atsugi Navy helicopter delivering food to refugees. |
NUCLEAR POWER PLANT level 7 MELTDOWN
The tsunami caused a cooling system failure at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which suffered a level 7 nuclear meltdown after the tsunami. Japan relies on nuclear power, and many of the country's nuclear reactors remain closed. Four years after the quake, 230,000 people who lost their homes were still living in temporary housing. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
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2. 2004 Indian Ocean, Indonesia Earthquake in ocean and Tsunami in Thailand- energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. Epicenter of 9.0 magnitude quake, located in the Indian Ocean near coast Sumatra. Movement of Earth tectonic plates, displaced the sea, sending shock waves.
AFFECTED: 11 countries 227,898 fatalities
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Volccano Explosion, showing the pressure waves causing the tsunami |
Several areas of the Sunda Strait, in Pandeglang regency, Serang, and South Lampung” in Indonesia were struck with a tsunami, Dec 23, 2018. After it struck the coast the national disaster agency said 165 people were injured so far with 20 people killed. Cause: was a landslide following the Anak Krakatow volcano eruption.
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/22/multiple-fatalities-as-tsunami-hits-beaches-in-indonesia Tsunami Indonesia]
Alaska tsunami, Samoa |
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It was felt all the way to Istanbul, Athens and into Bulgaria, tsumami warnings issued.
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/01/europe/turkey-greece-aegean-earthquake-scli-intl/index.html
- https://news.sky.com/story/major-earthquake-rocks-holiday-hotspots-in-turkey-and-greece-12118782
and others....
Sources:
- Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan 2011
- Earthquake Report, One Year Later
- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/22/multiple-fatalities-as-tsunami-hits-beaches-in-indonesia
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