Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Japan Tsunami 2011 - Case Study
- Effects
- 10 000 deaths - Minamisanriku
- 95% buildings destroyed in this town
- Shortages - food/water/shelter/medicine
- Responses
- Japanese Gov. mobilised self-defence
- Countries - send search & rescue teams - search survivors
- Aid - Japanese & Worldwide - Japanese Red Cross - $1 billion donations
- earthquake moved vast amounts of water - sudden jolt
- huge shallow waves rush through ocean - 480mph
- when they reach gently sloping coastline - waves slow & compress upwards
- waves surge ashore = devastation