japan 2011

Question 1

Is Japan a MEDC or a LEDC

Answer 1

MEDC

Question 2

what were the hazards?

Answer 2

• ground shaking
• tsunami
  -waves over 10 m high
• moved 5km in land
  40km of coastline affected

Question 3

where was the epicentre?

what was its depth?

Answer 3

• offshore japan

- 24km

Question 4

when was the earthquake?

Answer 4

11 march 2011

Question 5

what was its magnitude?

Answer 5

9

Question 6

how many aftershocks were there?

what was there magnitude?

Answer 6

• 102

- 6 or greater

Question 7

what were the causes?

Answer 7

• destructive plate boundary

- pacific plate subducted underneath north american plate

Question 8

what were the secondary impacts?

Answer 8

• food rationing and water shortages
• 4 million people were without electricity in Tokyo
• 25 million tones of debris generated
• 15,853 killed
• 6,023 injured
• 3,282 missing
• value of yen dropped
• 4,000 roads, 78 bridges, 29 railways affected
• more that 330,000 living in temporary accommodation
• reconstruction cost estimated at 23 trillion yen equal to £181 billion.
• almost 300,000 buildings destroyed and a further 1 million damaged
• radioactive leaks from nuclear power stations
• oil refineries near Tokyo caught fire
• rail services cut to save energy