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A Japanese urban search and rescue team sent to New Zealand following the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake was recalled. [68] On 27 March 2011, Japan's National Police Agency reported that 14 of its officers had died in the line of duty in the disaster and a further 16 were missing. [69]
On 10 April 2011, Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, visited Camp Sendai to talk to U.S. service members. The prime minister spoke of the immediate response of the U.S. military and expressed his belief that the joint efforts between the U.S. military and the JGSDF will strengthen the bonds between the Japanese people and the United States. [63]
According to Japan's foreign ministry, 163 countries and regions, and 43 international organizations had offered assistance to Japan as of September 15, 2011. [1] The magnitude of the earthquake was estimated at 9.1. [2] This article is a list of charitable and humanitarian responses to the disaster from governments and non-governmental ...
The 2011 triple disasters along Japan's northeastern coast began with a magnitude 9 earthquake offshore that was more than 125 times more powerful than this week's quake in terms of the total ...
The magnitude 7.1 quake occurred off the country’s northeastern coast late Saturday, local time.
A seismogram recorded in Massachusetts, United States. The magnitude 9.1 (M w) undersea megathrust earthquake occurred on 11 March 2011 at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) in the north-western Pacific Ocean at a relatively shallow depth of 32 km (20 mi), [9] [56] with its epicenter approximately 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku, Japan, lasting approximately six minutes.
Water tower vehicles from major fire departments were integral to the emergency cooling operations. Originally there were approximately 800 workers on 11 March 2011, the day the earthquake and tsunami struck. On 15 March, workers deemed non-essential were withdrawn by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. A total of around 750 workers left due to ...
In response to the Great East Japan Earthquake caused by the Tōhoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake that occurred on 11 March 2011, she made an emergency departure at 15:45, 53 minutes after the earthquake, to dispatch a disaster. The vessel was engaged until 21 March, resuming on 26 March, and remained engaged in disaster relief until 8 April.