Fukushima tsunami in Honshu, Japan 2011
125ft (38m) high (class 9 earthquake that caused this Tsunami)
The Fukushima Tsunami was a Tsunami that resulted from a fault rupture at a convergent plate boundary in Japan in 2011. The rupture was about 300 miles in length, and it triggered a class 9 earthquake that was the largest to ever hit Japan. The sea floor on the leading edge of the Japan plate sprang upwards when the rupture occurred and it displaced the overlaying seawater which triggered the Tsunami.
Houses and buildings were smashed from their foundations and swept away with the waves. A huge number of buildings were destroyed, 27,500 people were dead or missing, and the estimated cost of damage from the disaster was 326,000,000,000. It surged through harbors, ports, fields and towns destroying everything. Because the fields were swept over by the wave any farming was destroyed. The earthquake destroyed a nuclear power plant and leaked radioactive material for months.
Houses were smashed together, and dumped into landscapes. Fuel leaks and damaged electrical equipment lead to many fires. It washed over the anti-tsunami walls, flooding the streets completely, and destroying small one floor houses and causing the Fukushima power plant to leak radioactive material. They are still cleaning up the leak.
There were spirits called kamikaze, which were wind spirits who blew away massive waves from Japan. The Japanese believed that these spirits were meant to protect them from Tsunamis.
125ft (38m) high (class 9 earthquake that caused this Tsunami)
The Fukushima Tsunami was a Tsunami that resulted from a fault rupture at a convergent plate boundary in Japan in 2011. The rupture was about 300 miles in length, and it triggered a class 9 earthquake that was the largest to ever hit Japan. The sea floor on the leading edge of the Japan plate sprang upwards when the rupture occurred and it displaced the overlaying seawater which triggered the Tsunami.
Houses and buildings were smashed from their foundations and swept away with the waves. A huge number of buildings were destroyed, 27,500 people were dead or missing, and the estimated cost of damage from the disaster was 326,000,000,000. It surged through harbors, ports, fields and towns destroying everything. Because the fields were swept over by the wave any farming was destroyed. The earthquake destroyed a nuclear power plant and leaked radioactive material for months.
Houses were smashed together, and dumped into landscapes. Fuel leaks and damaged electrical equipment lead to many fires. It washed over the anti-tsunami walls, flooding the streets completely, and destroying small one floor houses and causing the Fukushima power plant to leak radioactive material. They are still cleaning up the leak.
There were spirits called kamikaze, which were wind spirits who blew away massive waves from Japan. The Japanese believed that these spirits were meant to protect them from Tsunamis.