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A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan near the meeting point of the Eurasian, Pacific, and Philippines tectonic plates on March 11th. It caused over 15,000 deaths and displaced over 130,000 people, destroying over 300,000 buildings and damaging over 300 hospitals and 2000 roads. The earthquake also generated a powerful tsunami with waves as high as 39 meters in Japan that caused further damage. In Nepal, the earthquake killed over 8,500 people, affected 8 million, destroyed poorly constructed buildings and cultural landmarks, and caused flooding and the risk of diseases.

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Nepal and Japan Case Study Points

A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan near the meeting point of the Eurasian, Pacific, and Philippines tectonic plates on March 11th. It caused over 15,000 deaths and displaced over 130,000 people, destroying over 300,000 buildings and damaging over 300 hospitals and 2000 roads. The earthquake also generated a powerful tsunami with waves as high as 39 meters in Japan that caused further damage. In Nepal, the earthquake killed over 8,500 people, affected 8 million, destroyed poorly constructed buildings and cultural landmarks, and caused flooding and the risk of diseases.

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- Meeting point of three tectonic plates: Eurasian, pacific and Philippines.

- Destructive boundary
- 9.0 magnitude earthquake on 11th march
- 7 foreshocks
- 1235 aftershocks
- 15,000 deaths
- 130,000 displaces
- 300,000 buildings destroyed
- 300 hospitals damaged
- 2000 roads damaged
- 4.4 million houses didn’t have electricity
- Tsunami (secondary impact) reached 10km inland
- Waves upto 2m high in chile across the pacific
- Maximum height of 39 m in Japan
- Flooding: localized flood problems
- Shipping was disrupted
- Nuclear powerplants damaged
- aircraft in the air to survey the devastation and identify priority areas for emergency aid.
Within 30 minutes of the earthquake, 11 military aircraft had responded and identified
communities which needed immediate aid
- Japanese Railway East (JR East), has invested £500 million in upgrading the earthquake
measurement equipment along its routes. This has reduced the time between early
earthquake detection and electricity cutoff to the lines and trains, from 3 to 2 seconds.
In 2009 all Shinkansen (bullet) trains were fitted with an early earthquake warning
system.
- Sendai Airport had been badly damaged but, through a joint effort by the JSDF and the
US Army, the runway was restored and re-usable by 29 March. By November 2011,
100% of the expressway, the Shinkansen and airport facilities had been restored.
However, the port was operating at only 68% capacity.
- As of November 2011, 96% of the electricity supply had been restored, 98% of the water
supply and 99% of the landline network.
- Due to the destruction of homes, an estimated 452,000 people were in evacuation
shelters within days of the disaster. However, many of these were inadequate in terms
of comfort and provision of blankets and food.

Nepal
- 16,000 injured
- 19 deaths near mt Everest due to avalanche
- Aftershock after few weeks
- 8 million people affected by disaster
- Flood
- Diseases
- 55 hotels demolished
- Moved the land by three feet
- Cultural land marks destroyed
- Poorly constructed buildings destroyed
- 8,500 deaths
- Homes and businesses destroyed
- Climbers at risk of severe hypothermia by being stuck in the mountain after earthquake
- 1000s of deaths in Langtang, farther away from the epicenter
- Epicenter was 50 miles away
- Nepal is in between Indian and Eurasian plates
- Resuing helicopters seen every five minutes
- Helicopters had to carry trekkers two at a tme because of altitude

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