The 2011 Tohoku Catastrophe
On Friday March 11, 2011, an earthquake with a 9.0 magnatude hit the east of Sendai, Honshu, Japan. The intensity of the earthquake resulted in tsunami killing an estimated 18,000 people and crippling a nuclear power station. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Tohoku earthquake was "the fourth largest in the world since 1900 and the largest in Japan since modern instrumental recordings begain 130 years ago."
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Disaster Information
- Japan Earthquake information from the US Department of Interior
- Japan Disaster Information Links from Disaster Information Management Resource Center
- Earthquake detection: Risk, Detection, Warning and Research
- Offshore Honshu, Japan Earthquake & Tsunami: Facts, Engineering, News & Maps
- From Federation of American Scientists: Nuclear Crisis in Japan
- Scientific American Report: The Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
- ReliefWeb: Earthquake and Tsunami - March 2011
- MIT Nuclear Information Hub
Video of Tsunami Flooding Japanese Town
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