Japan

• 11th march 2011 - 14:00

  9 on the Richter scale

  destructive boundary
• Eastern edge of Eurasian plate subducted by pacific plate
• shallow focus
• caused a tsunami
• cost of almost $5 trillion - most expensive natural disaster
• 16,000 died

  26,000 injured

  131,000 displaced

  4.4 million households without electricity
• transport network suffered - aid
• liquefaction in many parts of tokyo
• Fukushima - nuclear meltdown
• subsidence of the coast caused the wave to flow over the top of the sea defence wall

  lasted for 4 minutes
• 170,000 without running water
• $18 billion - cost to recover
• life-save structures - counterbalances and cross bracing
• sirens and tsunami warnings
• not much aid - recovered mostly by themselves

  also a multi hazard zone
• land shape funnelled waved to a larger height making them more powerful
• people monitoring the pacific ocean
• >700 aftershocks