Professor Tim Stern, from Victoria University of Wellington, said there were “strong parallels” between the setting of the Tōhoku-oki earthquake and the southern North Island. Almost all large earthquakes happened in areas called subduction zones, where one tectonic plate plunged beneath another, Stern said. “Both areas are underlain by a subduction zone where the depth of the plate interfaces is about 25 km, and the angle of the interfaces are both 10-20 degrees,” Stern said. The interface is where the plates rub against each other.
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Japan hails SA, pays tribute to earthquake victims
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JAPAN on Thursday paid tribute to the nearly 20 000 victims of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that destroyed entire towns 10 years ago and triggered the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Japanese Ambassador to South Africa Norio Maruyama on Thursday expressed condolences to the families of those who lost their lives during this natural disaster.
“The Great East Japan Earthquake was a complex disaster of unprecedented scale, but thanks to the efforts of people in the affected areas and the efforts of various people, in Japan and from abroad, the reconstruction of the affected areas is making steady progress,” he said in a statement.
Art museum in Japan preserves memories, 3.11 losses through disaster-hit item exhibit
March 11, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Tiles from front entrances, bathrooms and other parts of homes destroyed in the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, are seen in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. (Mainichi/Ami Jinnai) SENDAI Household items covered in mud, fragments of tiles from homes; these are some of the items exhibited as records of the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami at Rias Ark Museum of Art in the city of Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture, where the disaster struck. Photographs of townscapes immediately after the waves came were taken by the museum curators, who also gathered the broken items on display. What were their thoughts as they continued to record amid extreme, conflicting emotions, and what were they trying to leave behind?
Mar 11, 2021
The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, caused the deaths of 15,899 people and left 2,529 unaccounted for, mostly in Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima prefectures in the Tohoku region.
It also left 1,756 children without a father or mother, or both, according to a 2015 report by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
In response, Rohto Pharmaceutical Co. teamed up with Kagome Co. and Calbee Inc. to establish the Michinoku Future Fund, which supports those children financially so they can move on to attain higher education after graduating from high school.
“Our company is based in Osaka and experienced the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (in 1995). At that time, our Chairman, Kunio Yamada, felt so sad to see a lot of kids choose not to return to the damaged area even after the recovery,’’ said Haruna Shibata of Rohto’s Public Relations and Creating Shared Value Division, who was temporarily transferred to the fund’s office from 2015 to 2017.
Greenpeace Japan reiterates its calls for the government to build back better by promoting renewable energy policies instead of coal and nuclear. Japan has the capacity and the technology in place, but lacks the will to do so.