Police conduct operations to search for clues on the people missing since the disasters, on the shores of Watari in Miyagi Prefecture on March 10, More than 2, people are still listed as missing due to the disaster, and identifiable remains are still being discovered to this day.
Weeds grow in the parking lot of an abandoned pharmacy on March 7, , in Okuma, Japan. An aerial view shows Sakae Kato walking Pochi, his dog, which he rescued four years ago, on an empty road between restricted zones in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on February 20, A decade ago, Kato stayed behind to rescue cats abandoned by neighbors who fled the radiation clouds belching from the nearby Fukushima nuclear plant.
He won't leave. Sakae Kato lies in bed next to Charm, a cat who he rescued five years ago and infected with feline leukemia virus, at his home in a restricted zone in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on February 20, Kato looks after 41 cats in his home and another empty building on his property. The most recent graves were disturbed by wild boars that roam the depopulated community.
The year-old, a small-construction business owner in his former life, says his decision to stay as , other people evacuated the area was spurred in part by the shock of finding dead pets in abandoned houses he helped demolish. A small wild boar roams in a residential area of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on February 26, Hazuki Sato, a Futaba town official, visits a playground where she used to play when she was little, until she was evacuated due to a nuclear scare following the earthquake, in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on February 28, Sato is now preparing for her coming-of-age ceremony, which is typical for Japanese year-olds, hoping for a reunion in town so she can reconnect with her former classmates who have scattered.
In this aerial view from a drone, large swaths of land remain empty after the area that was once a thriving town was destroyed by the tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, Japan, on March 8, A truck drives past a roadside sign on March 8, in Namie, Japan. Radiation-contaminated soil is stored on March 9, , in Minamisoma, Japan. March 14, JPEG. February 28, JPEG. On March 11, , a magnitude 9. It was the largest quake recorded in Japan and the fourth largest in the world since seismic recording began around Within an hour, tremendous tsunami waves inundated much of the eastern Japanese coast, sending 5- to meter walls of water into coastal towns and cities.
In Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, the runup height from the tsunami—the maximum elevation that water moved upland from the shore—reached Near Sendai , flood waters penetrated 10 kilometers 6 miles inland. According to the U. The tsunami affected a kilometer stretch of coast and inundated more than square kilometers of land in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures.
Some of the worst devastation was observed at Rikuzentakata Iwate. The effects of the great earthquake were felt around the world, from Norway's fjords to Antarctica's ice sheet. Tsunami debris has continued to wash up on North American beaches years later. In Japan, residents are still recovering from the disaster.
As of February , there were still about , evacuees who lost their homes; 50, of them were still living in temporary housing, Japan's Reconstruction Agency said. More than , buildings were destroyed, , were half-destroyed and , were partially destroyed, the agency said. The unexpected disaster was neither the largest nor the deadliest earthquake and tsunami to strike this century.
That record goes to the Banda Aceh earthquake and tsunami in Sumatra, a magnitude But Japan's one-two punch proved especially devastating for the earthquake-savvy country, because few scientists had predicted the country would experience such a large earthquake and tsunami. Japan's scientists had forecast a smaller earthquake would strike the northern region of Honshu, the country's main island.
Nor did they expect such a large tsunami. But there had been hints of the disaster to come. The areas flooded in closely matched those of a tsunami that hit Sendai in In the decade before the Tohoku earthquake, a handful of Japanese geologists had begun to recognize that a large earthquake and tsunami had struck the northern Honshu region in However, their warnings went unheeded by officials responsible for the country's earthquake hazard assessments.
Now, tsunami experts from around the world have been asked to assess the history of past tsunamis in Japan, to better predict the country's future earthquake risk.
While they can often be predicted, the loss of life and property take an emotional and economic toll on the community impacted. Explore these resources to teach your students about catastrophic weather events and how they impact every part of the world. Explore major magnitude of 7. Explore the earthquakes occurring in the last 30 days and the extent of their shaking with this map layer.
Join our community of educators and receive the latest information on National Geographic's resources for you and your students. Skip to content. Twitter Facebook Pinterest Google Classroom. Background Info Vocabulary. Links map Click below to see a MapMaker Interactive map displaying tectonic activity surrounding the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Select Text Level: Educator Family. On March 11, , Japan experienced the strongest earthquake in its recorded history.
The earthquake struck below the North Pacific Ocean, kilometers 81 miles east of Sendai, the largest city in the Tohoku region, a northern part of the island of Honshu.
The Tohoku earthquake caused a tsunami. Most tsunamis, like the one that formed off Tohoku, are triggered by underwater tectonic activity , such as earthquakes and volcanic eruption s. The Tohoku tsunami produced waves up to 40 meters feet high,.
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