Tohoku Earthquake Critical Analysis

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[ A critical Analysis of Tohoku Earthquake an Tsunami , Japan] TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI 2011 [JAPAN] Saurabh kumar MD2014DM024 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI TOHOKU, JAPAN 2011 Introduction Japan is one of the developed economies of the world .Basically Japan is one of the islands nations .It has long history of disaster. It has felt nuclear bombing as a major disaster in the year 1945 during the 3RD World war due to which a large chunk of its Population gets diseased due to the exposure to the radiation .It experiences frequent earthquake and tsunami due to its geographical location just because of it lies where Eurasian and pacific plates meet .If there is any disturbance in the techtonic plates then it is going to feel earthquake or tsunami …show more content…

Why did the Tohoku earthquake happened ....??????????? According to the scientists of international organisations it poses a question what made such a powerful earthquake possible ,and could it happen again in japan or somewhere else again. So, a group of international scientists drilled miles beneath the pacific ocean and found an interesting phenomenon The epicentre of the 2011 quake was in an the unusual spot ,about 130 kilometres east of Sendai ,Japan just off the northern coast of the nation .In this area a subduction zone the pacific plates driving beneath the Eurasian plates. Strong earthquake are possible here ,but scientists hadn’t thought that there was enough energy to produce one larger than magnitude 7.5.They were wrong ,and they,ve been interested in finding out more about what made the fault capable of producing such large earthquake. After some time they sent a drilling vessel Chikyu with the mission to drill into the fault

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