Primary Effects

· Most modern building withstood the violent shaking; this was due to the strict building regulations the country has and that they have many facilities to monitor the movement of the ground. Only traditional wooden building suffered major damage.

· Most industrial buildings suffered only minor damage from the quake itself.

· In some areas subsidence meant that land sunk by 75cm . This lead too many areas being a flood risk.

· Many sections of the new Tohoku Expressway were damaged. It did not open again until March 2011.

· Power outages hit Tokyo and 8 other areas which affected around 4 million homes.

· Panic and chaos was caused by the quake

· Fewer than 20 people were killed by the earthquake

· Liquefaction turned large areas too mud

· There was some ground rupture.

· Damage was caused in Tokyo and many injuries in the north where the quake was centred

· The yen fell sharply but recouped most of its decline several hours later. Tokyo stocks fell.

· Local television showed smoke rising from a Tokyo port building, fire in the capital’s waterfront Odaiba district and an oil refinery ablaze in Ichihara, near Tokyo

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Note on Geography - The Restless Earth - Earthquake in a MEDC - Japan CASE STUDY, created by grace evans on 27/04/2015.