When was Japans earthqaukes?

Answer 1

Japan suffers from many earthquakes, small and large. Of the major earthquakes, the most recent disaster was on March 11, 2011. Called the Tohoku, or Great East Japan Earthquake, it created a giant tsunami wave up to three stories high that destroyed a large swath of northeast Japan's coastline. It also damaged and caused a meltdown at a nuclear reactor at Fukushima, causing the area to be evacuated. The plant is still suffering from radiation leaks, and nuclear energy plants throughout Japan were shut down over safety concerns.

A government report in 2012 stated that 15,883 people were killed, 6,145 were injured and 2,671 people were still missing. In addition, 129,225 buildings were destroyed, 254,204 buildings 'half collapsed' and 691,766 buildings partially damaged. The Tohoku earthquake was the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan.

Another major earthquake that killed many people and destroyed much property because it hit a major metropolitan area, the city of Kobe, was the Great Hanshin Earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995.

The third historically significant earthquake to hit Japan was the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1, 1923, which destroyed a large part of Tokyo, Japan's capital. Because it hit a large and densely populated area, the earthquake killed 140,000 people and almost half a million homes were destroyed by the fires causedby the earthquake.