tohoku japan eq + tsunami

Question 1

tokohu was in what year

Answer 1

march 2011

Question 2

what ranking of most powerful in the world

Answer 2

4th

Question 3

how tall was the tokohu tsunami

Answer 3

133ft tsunami

Question 4

how many died in the tokohu disaster

Answer 4

15,800 dead

Question 5

how many injured in the tokohu disaster

Answer 5

6,000 injured

Question 6

how many missing in the tokohu disaster

Answer 6

2,500

Question 7

how much economic damage in the tokohu disaster

Answer 7

$235 billion damage

Question 8

how many countries offered aid

Answer 8

25

Question 9

how did countries offer help

Answer 9

Narita + Haneda airports

Question 10

how many buildings destroyed by soil liquefaction in Tokyo

Answer 10

30 buildings

Question 11

how many aftershocks of 7.1 magnitude on the richter scale

Answer 11

4

Question 12

economic cost was how much

Answer 12

US $235 million

Question 13

where was electricity cut to japan

Answer 13

high-speed shinkansen services

Question 14

where was the epicentre

Answer 14

43 miles off the coast of tohoku

Question 15

what happened to fukishimas back up power systems

Answer 15

damaged - water cooling system stops working

Question 16

when were P waves detected?

Answer 16

31 seconds after the EQ, with an EQ warning 8 seconds later

Question 17

how much did the pacific plates slip

Answer 17

10m along a 400km fault in a magnitude 9 earthquake (displacing 4m)

Question 18

what happened to the port of sendai

Answer 18

oil refinery catches fire

Question 19

what speed did the tsunami start to cross the ocean

Answer 19

700km/hr

Question 20

what countries could not import5 japanese hi-tech components

Answer 20

UK
singapore
thai

Question 21

when was the shikansen bullet train back in service

Answer 21

the next day

Question 22

how many people living within 10 miles of the fukushima power plant are evacuated as radiation starts to leak

Answer 22

several thousand