The 2011 Tohoku “Sendai” earthquake in

Japan

This was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 14:46, on Friday

March 11. It had an epicenter of 70 km and an underwater depth of 29km.
According to history this was the biggest earthquake in Japans history and the
fourth biggest earthquake on earth since modern day which began at 1900. The
earthquake triggered massive tsunami waves that had a height of 40m, a speed of
700km/h and travelled 10 km on land. The earthquake moved Honshu (the main
island of Japan) 2.4 m east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between
10 cm and 25 cm increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 us per day, and
generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low
orbiting satellite. Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's
Pacific coast by up to roughly a m, but after about three years, the coast rose back
and kept on rising to exceed its original height.
Due to this 15899 people were killed, 6157 people were injured and 2529 people
were missing. In North-East Japan, there were severe structural damages including
building, roads and railways also it caused many fire in some areas. This caused
about4.4 million households to be left without electricity and over 1.5 million to be
left without water.
These damages caused by the natural disasters had a lot of cost. The earthquake
alone had a expense of repairing at 14.5 to 34.6 billion dollars. The World Bank
offered 14 trillion yen (183 billion dollars) to be back at normal marketing
conditions. Estimatedly it had about a cost of 235 billion dollars in total.
This happened because two massive tectonic plates collided and sled for 50 m.
These two plates were the Pacific plate and the North American plate.

By; Zorigt 7c