...Japan Earthquake 2011 Facts about the earthquake * A massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan, Friday afternoon, on 11 March 2011 at 0546 GMT * The quake was centered 130 kilometers to the east of Sendai. * A tsunami was sent crashing into the country’s north-eastern coast. * It was originally reported at a magnitude of 7.9, but later was upgraded to 8.9 and then to a 9.0. * It lasted 6 minutes. * That makes it the fifth largest recorded worldwide since 1900, according to the U.S. Geological Service, larger than the 7.9-magnitude Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo in 1923 or the 6.8 magnitude quake that hit Kobe in 1995. * It had 10,000 times more energy than the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, which struck 17 days earlier The Cause * Japan is located on the east edge of the Eurasian Plate. * The oceanic Pacific Plate subducts the Eurasian Plate. * This plate margin is “destructive” – it is not a smooth process, friction is present and the plates stick. * When the plates stick, tension builds up. * When this pressure builds up and is released, it causes a rapid shift in the plates and a lot of energy to be release, in this case about the same as the annual energy output of the UK. Impact * Japan was largely prepared for the earthquake and many buildings remained standing afterwards...
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...Earthquake in Japan The name of the article I choose is Quake Moved Japan Coast 8 fee, Shifted Earth’s axis by Kevin Voigt, CNN, March 11th, 2011. http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-12/world/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth_1_tsunami-usgs-geophysicist-quake?_s=PM:WORLD This article talks about the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan last Friday March 11th, 2011. The quake started a massive tsunami that also hit the country of Japan and sent 50 other territories into alert for the massive waves. Japan’s main island was moved 8 feet and the earth’s axis was also shifted 4 inches. “At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (8 feet), and we have seen a map from GSI (Geospatial Information Authority) in Japan showing the pattern of shift over a large area is consistent with about that much shift of the land mass” said Kenneth Hudnut, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).” Thirty foot walls of water struck Japan causing massive amounts of damage. Boats, cars and people’s homes were tossed around like feathers. This article also reports that some waves reached 6 miles inland. “The quake was the most powerful to hit the island nation in recorded history.” There were also move than 160 aftershocks in the first day of the initial earthquake. The earth’s crust exploded in an area around 250 miles and 100 miles long. The titanic plates moved more than 18 meters. This earthquake has killed thousands of people and made thousands more homeless...
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...Psychological impacts of Japan earthquake could linger for years The Japanese are beginning to pick up the pieces after Friday's earthquake -- but it could take much longer for their society to heal Alexandra Pope, staff writer March 13, 2011 — As victims of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami begin the long process of picking up the pieces, an expert on the country's culture and society says the psychological impacts of the disaster could be felt for generations. It could be years before the full extent of the earthquake's impacts are known The physical aftershocks of Friday's deadly magnitude 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami could continue to rattle northern Japan for months. But according to Dr. Mark Watson, an assistant professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, the psychological impacts of the disaster could be felt for even longer. Watson, who has spent the past decade studying social and cultural issues in Japan, says earthquakes are part of life for the Japanese, but the sheer scale of this disaster will make it difficult to overcome. “This is a once in a thousand-year event, and the devastation that’s been seen in north Japan is absolutely horrific,” he says. “How people will cope with it is an interesting question, especially given that in the 20th century they had two major earthquakes.” After both the 1923 earthquake in Tokyo and the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan proved its resilience...
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...literally swept Japan of its feet. You never know what tomorrow holds especially when it’s out of your control. On march 11 2011 a massive earthquake struck Japan. This earthquake was the biggest quake to hit Japan in over 140 years. Unfortunately every action has an equal and opposite reaction, the earthquake caused a massive tsunami that did not help the Japanese. The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.9 and the waves were 10 meters high. These waves crashed and drowned Japan. Over 1,000 people were believed dead and many more have been reported missing. This earthquake caused buildings to burn and houses to be swept away. Many people were evacuated and citizens were moved to higher ground. The true extent of the damage occurred after the rubble. Even after the earthquake aftershocks still continued. Buildings were ripped out of their concrete foundations and houses were still on fire as they were swept by the waves. This earthquake was a potentially catastrophic disaster as described by Barack Obama. This earthquake did not only affect the country but the economy as well. It is a good thing Japan is the world’s third-largest economy. It is also the second-largest holder of U.S. debt securities. Due to the earthquake there is also a nuclear energy setback the last thing that Japan needs is a nuclear melt down. Following the earthquake the U.S. stock market has dropped sharply and some U. S. companies will be negatively impacted. Global companies that do business in Japan like Coca-Cola...
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...of the earthquake. Eg. Haiti earthquake of 2011 had a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. whereas Japans was a magnitude of 9.0. The higher magnitude would cause greater impacts such as destruction of infrastructure and greater deaths. This is proven as Japan had 18,000 lives lost. Therefore showing that the nature and physical aspects of a disaster is what influences the impacts of the event. However, it can be argued that human factors have more influence on impacts of an event due to Haiti having a greater number of deaths overall due to being an LEDC and so lower economically developed. Whereas Japan is a MEDC. This means that there may be less technology to attempt to mitigate the impacts to the people such as warning systems being set up and the level of medical care and education. Eg. Haiti had an overall death toll of 60,000 that died with 350,000 infected with cholera due to poor sewage treatment and hygiene. The human activity caused the effects of the disaster to be worse due to contamination of the local drinking river of which people drank and washed in. compared to the 10,000 that died in Japans earthquake, it suggests that it is in fact a human disaster rather than a natural disaster. Another example for support that events are natural disasters is the fact that attempts to reduce the impacts were already put into place in Japan. This was shown by the preparedness of the country to earthquakes and tsunamis as they are frequent in Japan. 40% of japans coastline...
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...Convergent Building Codes in place? - Stringet- they are more specific of the swaying of building during seismic events Estimated Financial Cost - 309 billion Fatalities (if any) - ~18k deaths Although both the Haiti (2010) and Tohuko (2011) earthquakes are a ear apart, they have many similarities when it comes to the cause of occurrence. The Haiti earthquake occurred due to a collision between the North American and Caribbean transformed tectonic plates whereas the Tohuko earthquake occurred due to a collision between the North American and Pacific convergent tectonic plates. The depth and magnitude of an earthquake are important to determine how strong the seismic waves of collision would be as the tectonic plates crash. Both of these earthquakes were later associated with geometry and fault types. For example, the 2010 Haiti incident was connected to the Leogane fault and the 2011 Tohuko one was related to the denotation of the P-Mod and J-Mod during the main shock of this earthquake. In Japan earthquakes are very common due to the fact that it is located near major tectonic plate boundaries; similarly, Haiti has also been known to being a location prone to many earthquakes given their large history of previous occurrences. Earthquakes don’t only affect a location territorial wise but also socially and economically. This is a time in which communities realize whether the environment they’ve been living in is safe....
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...Yixin Gao Case Analysis #1 Sep 21 Supply Chain Lessons from Catastrophic Natural Disaster in Japan Supply chain management refers to the management of the flow of goods and services from the suppliers to the producers then to the consumers. The supply chain can however get hit by natural, economic or even humanitarian system disruption. In case of this event of disaster strike, companies have to come up with supply chain risk management to prevent their businesses from collapsing. With case study on some Japanese companies, this paper gives an analysis of how these manufacturing firms responded to Japan’s recent disaster strike, the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. Japan’s recent earthquake attack of 8.9-magnitude on its northeast coast was a devastating one. The tsunami which shortly followed the earthquake made everything even more severe. This led to destruction of property and loss of lives (Park et al., 75). Many were also forced to evacuate their homes as the earthquake and tsunami destroyed thousands of homes, leaving about 550,000 people homeless. The number of deaths was very high, exceeding 86,000, with 13,000 missing. Altogether, this was one of the most costly disasters caused by earthquake and tsunami, registering damage cost of about 235 billion dollars (Park et al., 75). The damages caused by these two natural disasters in Japan disrupted the supply chain, both globally and domestically. As a result, the disruptions caused negative impacts on several...
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...The Affects Natural Disasters have on Countries By: There are many natural disasters that occur throughout the earth in many countries. Some natural disasters are devastating killing the lives of men and the environment they live in. Other natural disasters are portrayed to be just a bad day created by Mother Nature to just pass by. Overall, the natural disasters that can be catastrophic to people on earth are hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. All three natural disasters occur in many countries. Hurricanes are common in the United State of America, earthquakes are common in Mexico, and tsunamis are common in Japan. These three countries have experienced the worst damage from these natural disasters. The countries had to watch their people die, find a way to recover physically and mentally, and suffer from billions of dollars in damages. These people practically lose everything and have to find a way to rebuild what was lost. In order to save lives and help reduce damage from natural disasters, mankind has come a long way in technology to predict the size and location of each natural disaster’s destruction. Technology is not the same as it was one hundred years ago. With the help from NASA and scientists all over the world, people are able to give out broadcasted warnings to millions of people of the natural disaster that’s about to hit. All in all, technology has saved many lives from natural disasters but mankind is still trying to find a way in reducing damage from...
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...One of the effects of the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan in spring 2011 was to bring to the forefront the issues of supply chain venerability. Use the article from the Congressional Research Service for an article review. In your review, discuss how the specific situation could have implications in a broader sense. This article was a great detailed as well as a depressing topic covering the events of the earthquake and hurricane occurrence on March of 2011 at the northeast coast of Japan. This happening was the most powerful natural disaster in Japan’s modern history. Affecting the challenge for Japanese government, businesses, and societies was the resulting ruining of several nuclear reactors in the region which supplied electricity for homes and industry. Located in the disaster expanse are a number of manufacturing facilities which are vital to the global motor vehicle supply chain. These areas took a big hit which was seemed to be preventive in resolution based off the imagery and cost factors of how the end result of the hurricane and earthquake effected those critical locations. These facilities include warehouses that assemble automobiles and many suppliers which build parts and sub-components for vehicles. The effects of these disasters has been first and foremost accepted by Japanese automakers, which closed many of their assembly plants for several weeks as they evaluated their supply chain issues and impact on their essential sub-tier suppliers. Japanese motor...
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...Ambiguity in the Taiwan-Japan “Friendship It seems natural that the emergency conditions in the wake of natural disasters compel the international community to take swift action to contribute humanitarian aid. However, in today’s East Asia, it is an area where nationalism is so heated and may work to oppose public sympathy. I n such a situation, how and what kind of rhetoric is used by people to appeal for public sympathy on an international scale? How disruptions in the ‘natural’ world are seen to reflect or reveal division in the social world? These questions intrigued me to look at the case of the “Taiwan-Japan Friendship” in the aftermath of the 311 Earthquake. Few would hesitate to characterize Taiwan’s status quo as a plight or a political ambiguity. Under pressure from China, international political correctness on the China-Taiwan issue has long inclined to overshadow and marginalize Taiwan. This kind of “normalization of abnormal status”, however, might be challenged or reconfigured by another “abnormal status”, such as a natural disaster. On March 11, 2011 a 9.0 earthquake struck Japan. The most powerful recorded earthquake in Japan’s history accompanied with the subsequent 10-metre-high tsunami and the following Fukushima nuclear leak accident eventually killed nearly 18000 people. In the aftermath of the 311 earthquake, Taiwan was the first nation to extend a helping hand to Japan and was also the biggest national donor to earthquake relief. Over US$252 million...
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...Lessons Learned A triple disaster occurred on March 11, 2011 in japan. On this date Japan suffered not only an earthquake but a resulting tsunami and nuclear disaster that caused extremely unsafe conditions for Japan’s citizens. On the day of March 11, 2011 an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 struck Tohoku with great aggression which lead to an enormous Tsunami that devastated large areas of japan. Not only did the earthquake cause massive destruction to the island, it also caused a nuclear disaster that we still don't realize the effects that it caused. As a result of this disaster, japan has learned some very valuable lessons. One lesson that japan learned is make use of cloud computing. After japan’s tsunami, most of their data stored on servers was destroyed due to water damage. From recent speculation japan decided to take advantage of cloud computing so that if another disaster were to occur they would still have access to their data from a different location in the world. Another lesson Japan learned was that natural disaster can be very overbearing and they should not be underestimated and should be taken with precautions, Sea walls are meant to decrease damage not fully protect you. If japan’s citizens knew this fact they could have taken further actions to protect themselves and their family and friends. In the future japan can learn from these mistakes and takes actions and precautions faster so that lives can be saved. Another lesson learned is that there...
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...This essay will focus on the major, most famous tsunamis in the world’s history. Tsunamis occur mostly in the Pacific Ocean mostly around the Ring of Fire (“Tsunamis”). This is because this dangerous area is known for its production of such disasters as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, or even both trigger the Tsunami. There have been spectacular tsunamis in the past. 1707 Hoei Tsunami was for centuries the largest earthquake in Japan (“1707 Hōei earthquake”). The earthquake that caused it had magnitude of 8.6. The earthquake’s fault rupture extended to more than 700 km (“Abstract”). Back in 1771, an earthquake of a 7.4 magnitude occurred just south of the Okinawa, Japan Island. Killing nearly eight and a half thousand people, a tsunami of mass destruction took place. The population decrease to about one third and more than 2,000 houses were demolished (“1771 Great Yaeyama Tsunami”). Comparatively, on November 1, 1775 an earthquake in the Kingdom of Portugal occurred. The earthquake caused fires and a tsunami. This tsunami almost completely destroyed Lisbon, in the Kingdom of Portugal. The Lisbon earthquake had a magnitude of 8.7 on the moment magnitude scale (“1775 Lisbon earthquake”). In 1792, Japan was again caught in a horrendous natural disaster. They faced what is called their most deadly volcanic eruption ever. The Mount Unzen volcano caused this tsunami. It caused a tsunami that killed approximately 15,000 people with waves that reached up to 330 feet (“1792 Unzen...
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...Oklahoma or New Jersey, Florida, California, Texas, Haiti, Thailand or Japan; Mother Nature holds no punches when it comes to dishing out her forms of friendly storms. Natural disasters have made a major financial, physical and mental impact on the people of the world. When disaster strikes and people are forced out of there neighborhood and homes, people want to know that when something like this happens, there is someone there to have their back; a piece of mind. In 1979, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was formed to help with state and local governments within the United States and the International Association of Emergency Managers was formed to help state, federal and governments ensure that their people have peace of mind. Table of Contents I. Introduction 3 II. Hurricane Katrina 4 III. Natural disasters in the United States 6 IV. Earthquake and tsunami in Japan 8 V. Natural disasters in the world 9 VI. Closing 11 VII. Reference 13 I. INTRODUCTIONS The environment is always changing and the people of the United States should always be aware of what could happen to them if they are not prepared for what Mother Nature do to their surroundings with no notice. There are several types of natural disasters that can maim and destroy communities and people lives. To name a few, they are hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, earthquakes, mudslides, flooding wildfires, tsunamis and volcanoes. Hurricanes...
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...PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF EARTHQUAKES Name Course Professor Date Earthquake Victims In March 11,2011 an earthquake shook Japan and its environs and the 9.0 magnitude earthquake unleashed a savage tsunami. In my findings, the earthquake was found to have rendered over 300,000 people homeless and 18,000 people also reported to have lost their lives mainly by drowning. About 6000 thousand individuals were injured and over 2400 people went missing. Psychological Impacts of Earthquakes Asian Disaster management Centre in Japan stated that there had been several earthquakes like the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in January 1995, Mid Niigata Earthquake in October 2004 and the northeastern Japan earthquakes on 11th March, 2011. Policy on earthquake disasters in japan ensures prompt and elaborate dealing with earthquake disasters through early warnings and evacuations. Though the institution claimed success in the effectiveness of the policy, victims thought otherwise stating that the policy was ineffective since many lives were being lost. Another aspect criticized was the emergency response rebuked for being ill prepared in disaster management. The earthquake raised degrees of stress, depression and other mental illnesses, especially among those who lost their loved ones (Alexander,2005). A visit to therapy institutions dealing with disaster victims A visit to one specific therapy center that deals with kidney problems caused by the earthquake was significant at the moment...
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...scientists discovered the historical and scientific evidence for a megathrust earthquake that generated a tsunami along the Cascadian subduction zone in 1700. A few geologists used radiocarbon dating and found that at least 900 kilometers (560 miles) along the fault ruptured between 1960 and 1720 (National Geographic Society [NGS], 1996). In 1996, Japanese researchers showed North American colleagues a tsunami that struck Honshu Island in 1700 to geological reports at the Cascadia subduction zone (NGS, 1996). Besides, Japan has a documented dating back to the 1500s, according to the National Geographic Society (1996). As a result, Japanese researchers concluded the Cascadia earthquake must have occurred in the evening of Tuesday, January...
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