Japan (Tohoku) - LIVING WITH EARTHQUAKES

• 400 daily earthquakes in japan
• since 2000, over 20 earthquakes with a 7MW
• tohoku

  • 9 MW
  • lasted 6 minutes
  • caused the axis to shift by 10cm
  • seabed rose by 7m
  • aftershocks reached 8MW
  • created a tsnuami
• political impacts

  • increased debt
  • movement against nuclear power as fukishima and other plants were disrupted (even germany)
• economic impacts

  • cost over 180 billion and interrupted
  • over 45,000 buildings destroyed
  • 4 million houses lost electricity and many power cuts
  • 25 million tonnes of debris
  • shut down of reactors as fukushima and others were disrupted by flooding and radioactivity was released (flooding also made farmland unusable)
• social impacts

  • 16,000 lives
  • 2 thirds over 60 = drowned
  • problems with dead body disposal - mass graves
  • reconstruction still 5 years later
  • 2000 children lost at least 1 parent