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The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Japan
A magnitude 9.1 megathrust earthquake off Japan set off a tsunami that killed over 18,000 people and caused a nuclear accident.
- Named earthquake
- Tectonic hazard, HIC
The same case studies as the map, on a time axis instead of a place one. Geography is normally read by where something happened, so this is the second view rather than the first: it is here for when the question is when.
35 case studies, 2010 to 2026. 21 carry no date and sit outside the run of it
A magnitude 9.1 megathrust earthquake off Japan set off a tsunami that killed over 18,000 people and caused a nuclear accident.