Ten years ago, on March 11, , a magnitude The fierce inundation of seawater tore apart coastal towns and villages, carrying ships inland as thousands of homes were flattened, then washed tons of debris and vehicles back out to sea. The earthquake and subsequent disasters cost tens of billions of dollars and nearly 16, lives.
Memorials planned for this year will be held, but most have been scaled back because of the ongoing pandemic. This combination of pictures shows a handout photo taken by a Miyako City official on March 11, of the tsunami breaching an embankment and flowing into the city of Miyako, and the same area nearly 10 years later, on January 28, Police conduct operations to search for clues on the people missing since the disasters, on the shores of Watari in Miyagi Prefecture on March 10, More than 2, people are still listed as missing due to the disaster, and identifiable remains are still being discovered to this day.
Weeds grow in the parking lot of an abandoned pharmacy on March 7, , in Okuma, Japan. An aerial view shows Sakae Kato walking Pochi, his dog, which he rescued four years ago, on an empty road between restricted zones in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on February 20, A decade ago, Kato stayed behind to rescue cats abandoned by neighbors who fled the radiation clouds belching from the nearby Fukushima nuclear plant.
He won't leave. Sakae Kato lies in bed next to Charm, a cat who he rescued five years ago and infected with feline leukemia virus, at his home in a restricted zone in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on February 20, Kato looks after 41 cats in his home and another empty building on his property.
The most recent graves were disturbed by wild boars that roam the depopulated community. The year-old, a small-construction business owner in his former life, says his decision to stay as , other people evacuated the area was spurred in part by the shock of finding dead pets in abandoned houses he helped demolish.
A small wild boar roams in a residential area of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on February 26, Satake, K. On an idyllic Monday night in , the palm-lined coasts of the American Samoa, Samoa, and Tonga Islands looked peaceful and. On July 17, , a 7. But the terror. Tsunamis—huge ocean waves generated by sudden movements in the seafloor, landslides, or volcanic activity—have killed hundreds. How It Happened The event resulted from thrust faulting on the subduction zone plate boundary between the Pacific and North America plates, according to the U.
High Costs In Japan, the event resulted in the total destruction of more than , houses and damage to almost a million more. From Peril to Preparedness To learn from the tragedy in Japan, researchers collected extensive data on tsunami wave forces and building performance.
References Kong, L. Published March 11, Tsunami Sources Poster. Do not run outside, and try to remain as calm as possible. If you are in the streets, try to find protection from glass and other objects that may fall from surrounding buildings. After a strong earthquake, turn off ovens, stoves and the main gas valve. Then listen to the radio or television for news. In coastal areas beware of possible tsunami while in mountainous areas beware of possible land slides.
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Then came fires, roaring through the wooden houses of Yokohama and Tokyo, the capital, burning everything—and everyone—in their path. And the quake may have emboldened right-wing forces at the very moment that the country was poised between military expansion and an embrace of Western democracy, only 18 years before Japan would enter World War II.
The 9. Nevertheless, there are parallels. Like the quake, this one unleashed secondary disasters: a tsunami that washed away dozens of villages; mudslides; fires; and damage to the Fukushima Daiichi reactors that emitted radiation into the atmosphere and constituted the worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in Fuel, food and water were hard to come by weeks after the earthquake, and the Japanese government acknowledged that it had been ill-prepared for a calamity on this scale.
Traditional figures offered words of solace: Crown Prince Hirohito 88 years ago; his son, Emperor Akihito, in Before the Great Kanto Earthquake struck, Japan was full of optimism. Commodore Matthew Perry forced the shogun to open Japan to the West, Yokohama had grown into a cosmopolitan city of half a million. The Great Kanto Earthquake obliterated all of that in a single afternoon. Somerset Maugham and William Howard Taft, collapsed, crushing hundreds of guests and employees.
Otis Manchester Poole, a year-old American manager of a trading firm, stepped out of his largely still-intact office near the Bund to face an indelible scene. Soon, the entire city was ablaze.
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