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Natural Hazard
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Earthquake
Tōhoku Earthquake
2011/03/11
05:46
6 minutes
Published

Location

Japan
National

Occurrence

9.0 Mw
IX MSK
2.99 g

Consequences

International
> 100,000
> 10,000
> 10,000
> 100 M USD
On 10 June 2014, a Japanese National Police Agency report confirmed 15,887 deaths, 6,150 injured, and 2,615 people missing across twenty prefectures, as well as 127,386 buildings totally collapsed, with a further 273,024 buildings 'half collapsed', and another 743,395 buildings partially damaged. The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, "In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan." Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water.

Early estimates placed insured losses from the earthquake alone at US$14.5 to $34.6 billion. The Bank of Japan offered ¥15 trillion (US$183 billion) to the banking system on 14 March in an effort to normalize market conditions. The World Bank's estimated economic cost was US$235 billion, making it the most expensive natural disaster in world history.

Source: Wikipedia [2012-05-13] and National Police Agency of Japan
http://www.npa.go.jp/archive/keibi/biki/higaijokyo_e.pdf
ID: 18, Created: Serkan GIRGIN, 2012-06-26 10:27:16 – Last Updated: Elisabeth KRAUSMANN, 2014-07-04 16:11:49

Attachments

NoDescriptionFile Size
1.Click here to select record National Police Agency Summary6.96KB
2.Click here to select record Report on ground motion (in Japanese)380.79KB

Associated Natural Hazards

NoDateTypeName
1.Click here to select record 2011/03/11TsunamiTōhoku Tsunami

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