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Date: march 2011

tsunami washed over 12-metre sea wall rendering them ineffective

located on the eastern edge of the Eurasian plate, pacific plat (oceanic) subducts under.

9.0 on the Richter scale

15,894 died 6,152 injured 130,927 displaced 2,562 remain missing

earthquake happened at shallow depth of 20 miles below the surface of the pacific ocean caused a tsunami

9m high wave flooded the generators of the Fukushima nuclear power plant causing a lost of energy(4.4 million households left without electricity)

where: 250 miles of the North east coast of Honshu(main island)

tsunami caused lots of damages and pollution up to 6 miles inland

cost $235 billion

seven reactors at the Fukushima plant went into a meltdown

the earthquake moved the earth's axis by 10-25 cm shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds

332,395 buildings destroyed