Causes Of Tsunami In Japan

The tragic day that happened in 2011 was the three part catastrophic events that struck in Japan that had the magnitude of 9.1 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that killed several thousands of people that have destroyed many homes. The most damaging areas in Japan that was affected by the tsunami was the Tohoku region or the northeastern Honshu region of Japan. The tsunami has cause the nuclear meltdown in Japan that cause another catastrophic event besides earthquake and tsunami.

According to John P. Rafferty and Kenneth Pletcher wrote on their article, “The sudden horizontal and vertical thrusting on the Pacific Plate, which has been slowly advancing under Eurasian Plate near Japan, displaced the water above and spawned a series

“Initial reports of casualties following the tsunami put the death toll in the hundreds, with hundreds more missing. The numbers in both categories increased dramatically in the following days as the extend of the devastation-especially in coastal areas…Within two weeks of the disaster, the Japanese government’s official count of deaths had exceeded 10,000; more than one and a half time that number were stilled listed as missing and presumed dead” (John P. Rafferty & Kenneth Pletcher). The tsunami is cause of the Japanese have died because there was a nuclear meltdown that cause the radiation of the nuclear in the air cause the people in the area to have health problems “The combined total of confirmed deaths and missing is more than 22,000 (nearly 20,000 deaths and 2,500 missing). Deaths were caused by the initial earthquake and tsunami and by post-disaster health conditions” (CNN Library by Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency). The tsunami cause the power plants to have a nuclear meltdown because it causes so much destruction in the coastlines that it disrupted the power plants, “The reactors at the three nuclear power plants closest to the quake’s epicenter where shut down automatically following the temblor, which also cut the main power to those plants and their cooling systems. However, inundation by the tsunami waves damaged the backup generators at some of those plants, most notably at the Fukushima Daiichi (“Number One”) plant, situated along the Pacific coast in northeastern Fukushima prefecture about 60 miles (100 km) south of Sendai” (John P. Rafferty & Kenneth Pletcher). Since the nuclear meltdown has arrive due to the tsunami, tourists