Additional Facts

Question 1

What do the USA have to monitor tsunami possibility?

Answer 1

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Question 2

In June 2007, Japan set up the Japanese Action Plan. What was this?

Answer 2

A law in which building regulations had to be double checked to be hazard resistant

Question 3

What do cities do to warn people about how to respond during an earthquake?

Answer 3

A classquake (a fake earthquake)

Question 4

Give an example of a sea wall that protected a town from a Tsunami?

Answer 4

Fudai Sea wall (cost £20 million to build, was not breached during 2011 Japanese tsunami)

Question 5

What was set up in 2007 by Japan?

Answer 5

Japan’s Earthquake Early Warning System