Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Japan Tsunami

Happened on 11 March 2011
15,421 deaths
5,367 injured
7,937 people missing
across eighteen prefectures, as well as over 125,000 buildings damaged or destroyed
Earthquake came with a 9.0 magnitude in the western Pacific Ocean at a relatively shallow depth of 32 km.
Over eight hundred aftershocks of magnitude 4.5 or greater have occurred since the initial quake
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