Earthquake in Japan 2011

Japan, russia, australia, hawaii, taiwan, indonesia, philippines, mexico, chile.

The earthquake in Japan lasted about 3-5 minutes.

The term used in seismology is the S-wave.

It is not a matter of size: a tsunami is very different from an ordinary wave. A tsunami wave is not wind-driven but is usually caused by an earthquake or landslide. They have a much longer wavelength, and so carry far more water than an ordinary wave of similar height. In open ocean a tsunami may be a couple feet high an hundreds of miles long, becoming higher in the shallow water near shore. While a storm wave washes in and out in a matter of seconds, a tsunami comes in as a continuous surge for several minutes.

The largest earthquake recorded for Japan in 2003 was in Hokkaido on September 26 at about 4:50 AM local time. It registered a magnitude 8.3 and killed one person, in addition to nearly 600 injuries.

If you are referring to real earthquakes (I noticed the question is posted in "Pokemon" and I don't know if there are special Pokemon earthquakes)...but anyway, real earthquakes happen frequently. Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada had a small/medium earthquake just 2 days ago (Feb. 05, 2010) that registered 3.2 on the Richter Scale - just a few tenths of a point below the level that could have caused serious damage. Tremors of this type are fairly common around the world.

It affects the u.s because the us gets alot of imports from japan and with the tsunami and everything destroyed, they probably wont import the goods any more.

Additionally, the damage and casualties from this earthquake and it's resulting tsunami help us understand and better prepare ourselves for a similar event that could possibly occur in the Pacific Northwest. Just off the coast of Oregon & Washington is a similar earthquake hazard called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is capable of producing the same type of tsunami inducing earthquake. Researchers have estimated that this area of our Pacific Northwest ruptures every 240 years on average, but the last time was 1700, so we could be overdue for a similar event on our side of the pacific.

because i am doing a report on the devastation's in japan. i have researched from many different websites that japan's death toll ranges from 10,000 that are dead and 16,000 missing. this is also the 5 worst earthquake in the history of the world with a magnitude of 8.9.

many people wanted to...... dont think i am gonna do ur assessment for you

There are many aid organizations helping in Japan, such as the Red Cross. Read the news accounts of recovery efforts and contact the organizations mentioned to see if your particular skills are needed.

See the related link for answer. A 5 is 32 kilotons of TNT, a 6 is 1 megaton of TNT.

The magnitude 9.1 Tōhoku earthquake on March 11, 2011, occurred in the depths of the Pacific Ocean near the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of the city of Sendai.

Exact location: 38.297°N, 142.372°E

there were 1,320 aftershocks The shaking that began at 5:46 lasted for 20 seconds.

A Earthquake is caused by the two plates (Plate Boundary) you can have 3 Plate Boundaries 1) Destructive Plate Boundary 2) Collision Plate Boundary 3) Conservative Plate Boundary and this are what cause a earthquake because when they meet they build so much pressure it makes a earthquake.

The tsunami on 11 March 2011 caused damage and ultimately shutdown of three nuclear reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex in Japan. Residents within a 20 km (12 mi) radius of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant were requested to evacuate during the accident.

In the year 2004, the Indian Ocean was hit with an undersea earthquake that resulted in a tsunami hitting Thailand and surrounding landmasses. Over 200,000 people were killed in more than a dozen different countries.

A nuclear explosion is not possible in the design of a modern nuclear power plant but the problem is radioactive material being released into the atmosphere and nearby environment. If radiation is released into the atmosphere then it can travel many miles from the site of the nuclear plant or into the water system.

The cleanup of a nuclear meltdown and radiation leak includes costly monitoring and decontamination of the radiation-affected areas.

It starts after an earthquake. an earthquake is caused by two plates under the earth rub together.

The last time Tokyo was hit by a big earthquake was in 1923, which had a 7.9 magnitude.

The March 2011 earthquake that hit off the coast of Sendai was magnitude 9.0 and it triggered a massive tsunami.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo's earthquake research institute said "there was a 75% probability that a magnitude seven quake would strike the region in the next four years" as reported in BBC News.

10 cities in japan were affected by the earthquake and tsunami.

They are Miyako, Ōtsuchi, and Yamada (all in Iwate Prefecture), Namie, Sōma and Minamisōma (all in Fukushima Prefecture) and Onagawa, Natori, Ishinomaki, and Kesennuma (all in Miyagi Prefecture).

In China. It was during the Xia dynasty,it happened in the year 1831 BC.

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Date: May 526

Location: Antioch (Syria, Turkey regions)

Death Toll: 250,000

The Event: Not much is known about the Antioch earthquake beyond its staggering death toll of a quarter-million people. Historians estimate that the event occurred between May 20 and May 29 of 526. It remains one of the most brutal earthquakes in recorded history, despite coming in at VIII on the Mercalli scale, four notches below No. 5 on this list. The tremor reportedly set off a fire that caused widespread property damage to structures within the hold of the Byzantine Empire, a portion of the Roman Empire that at the time boasted a population in excess of 34 million. In just a few minutes nearly 1 percent of them were gone. By comparison, that would be like losing the entire city of Chicago, Illinois, in one fell swoop.

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It ruined their homes, the stores, their people, and their lives.

Many towns along the coastal regions were completely destroyed. The death of friends, family, and local people caused upset in the survivors. There were those who after getting to safe ground from the earthquake, died because they had nowhere to run from the tsunami. There was a nuclear panic after a nuclear power plant went down. The people feared radiation poisoning from the leakage or radiation into the water.

Earthquakes don't come in "types"; but there are a number of ways of how they are caused. In this case, the Japan 2011 earthquake happened when the pacific plated shifted, causing a tremendous amount of energy to be released and resulting in the earthquake and tsunami.

Whenever such a major disaster happens it forces people and governments to reform policies and regulations and rethink the systems in place to deal with long-term public health effects.

One result is a push to reform the crisis management system, making boundaries between responsibilities of local and national governments and the operators clear, and establishing clear chain of command in emergency situations.

There are always lessons in such events to be better prepared next time.

The reason is simply because the captain thought his ship was unsinkable so he only put enough lifeboats on the ship for about half of the passengers and that doesn't include the crew and then when the boat was sinking they only filled the lifeboats up about halfway but then again the entire thing could of been avoided if they would have blistened to the iceberg warning and not sped up the ship in the first place.