Earthquake in Japan 2011

The earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean nearby northeastern Japan at around 2:46 PM (JST) on March 11, 2011, causing major damage and loss of life with blackouts, fires and tsunami. The major damage occurred in Sendai, Japan.

The earthquake that hit Japan can occur inside the country, making it local, or happen offshore, with distances varying based on location within Japan. For example, the 2011 earthquake originated off the coast of Japan's main island, Honshu, about 80 miles from the city of Sendai.

The Northeastern coast of Japan .

Note: Their Nuclear Power Plants released chemicals into the air because of the earthquake. VERY VERY BAD!!!! (May affect LA)

well to date. i only know that a massive earthquake took place at japan (march 2011) and around 1500 are feared dead or missing. the earthquake was quickly followed by a massive wave which ploughed through everything. on top of this a nuclear power station is in meltdown and leaking radiation. Japanese authorities have enforced an exclusion zone around this area to prevent people being exposed to this radiation (uranium and plutonium). 3 explosions have taken place and there are fears that there will be another explosion. many people are sending aid as we speak. this quake measured 8.2 on the Richter scale.

it is said that the moon is to blame for this total devastation on top of a solar storm from the sun. the moon is to blame because when it happened it was 2 weeks before the moon comes to the closest distance from the earth in its oval shaped orbit.

and the sun because the particles released by the sun causes the earth to experience earthquakes.

so the moon affects the tides and the sun affects the tectonic activity.

The earthquake in Japan in 2011 was caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate along the Japan Trench. This tectonic movement resulted in a massive release of energy that led to the earthquake.

yes

about 1000 people saved

It is often referred to as the 2011 Sendai Tsunami.

Yes, by ten centimeters.

how Japans Geography has been good or bad for japan?

i am not really sure but some where in japan there is a volcano.

No. The Natural Disaster Warning Centre confirmed that the tsunami caused by the Japanese earthquake will NOT have any impact on Thailand.

A Tsunami can travel as fast a jetliner in flight which is anywhere from 500-600 mph. The earthquake occurred about 80 miles of the coast, although a Tsunami will slow as it hits the coast line, you can figure residents had anywhere from 8 - 15 minutes to get to higher ground. Not much time!

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The Fukushima disaster is a series of three meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima prefecture, Japan.

The plant at Fukushima was built with its emergency equipment in the basement, because this was the safest place in the building. Unfortunately, no one thought to protect this equipment from flooding.

This error was compounded by the fact that the plant was protected from being flooded by a tsunami by a 5.7 meter seawall, which was clearly inadequate on a coast that is regularly hit by tsunamis of much greater wave height. The tsunami that it had a wave height of 14 meters at the plant, but the wave was 38.9 meters on a part of the coast closer to the epicenter of the earthquake.

When the wave struck, it went right over the seawall and swamped the plant, filling the basements with water, and rendering the equipment useless. The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 9.0 at the epicenter and about 6.6 at the plant, wrecked roads, power lines, and other infrastructure, making it impossible to bring emergency equipment to the plant.

Both the reactors and the spent fuel pools require constant cooling. Because there was no electrical power, and no pumps to circulate water, the reactors overheated, and the fuel began to melt.

When the fuel melts, it can burn through its containment, and reacts chemically with steam to produce hydrogen. The hydrogen mixed with the air in the reactor buildings. Vents that were supposed to move the hydrogen out failed to operate, and the hydrogen-air mixture exploded in three of the buildings, two that were in operation at the time of the earthquake, and one that was not.

Three reactors melted down, and the spent fuel pool of one reactor that was out of service appears to have had fuel melting problems. The containments were breached, and radioactive materials were able to get out. Since there was no way to circulate water, and cooling was needed, a constant flow of fresh or salt water was pumped into the reactors and spent fuel pools to prevent further damage. This created a huge inventory of highly radioactive water.

Radioactive material was blown as far as 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) from the plant by the explosions, but other materials worsened the contamination, and large areas of Japan have been evacuated. Small particles, called "fuel fleas" have been carried thousands of miles by the wind, and these increase the chances of people who inhale them of getting cancer.

After 100 days, the situation is still not under complete control, and there is some worry that it can get worse again. With changes in the prevailing winds, which had been pushing most of the pollution out to sea, there is some chance of greater areas having to be evacuated. It is regarded as unlikely that any major areas will have to be evacuated, but we will not know for some time how things will play out.

The cause of the failure is clearly inadequate engineering based on a misjudgment of the potential for tsunami in the area of the plant. Because the engineering was altered at the Fukushima Daini plant, preventing the plant from being similarly destroyed, we can know that the problems were understood at some time after the plant was built, but were not corrected at the plant; this indicates a serious failure of the regulatory system in place.

japan has always had to deal with tsunamis it's no new thing to them, but the most recent was about 7 days ago, last Friday btw please keep them in your prayers.

See the related link to view a map of the warning levels for the West Coast in the wake of the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami.

The Tohoku Earthquake of March 11, 2011, had a magnitude at the epicenter of 9.0. At Fukushima Daiichi, the magnitude of the earthquake was a good deal lower because of the distance from the epicenter, and its magnitude is believed to have been somewhat less than 7.0.

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So far they've uncovered about 800 bodies, but they're estimating about 1800 or more. (They haven't found all the corpses yet.)

Well, there is an Earthquake in Tokyo Japan and than cause the Tsunami waves across the pacific ocean than hit Hawaii and the Hawaii islands. The waves also hit the west coast of the United States. This was happening on March 11, 2011 .(second person typing)I have heard that a boy in school at japan had the earthquake and his dad was picking him up but he was late .the dad got an accident.Someone gave a jacket and he took it.I heard that from my parents.I am not sure about that part yet

an earthquake kills about 1000 people

A part that has land

Japan's coastal areas area at risk of tsunamis because Japan is lies on several plate margins. The movement of the plate margins cause earthquakes. it is the earthquakes in the sea bed and under water which cause tsunamis. This is because the movement displaces the water and causes a large wave of water.