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Many in the town said they felt the wall lulled them into a false sense of security. [6] A 500 m (1,600 ft) section of the seaside wall was swept away by the tsunami. Large amounts of concrete debris was left around Tarō and scattered in its bay. [7] 181 people were dead or missing in the tsunami, with nearly 1,700 houses damaged or destroyed. [8]
The 1026 Manju tsunami affected the Sea of Japan coast of then Iwami Province on June 16. Considered one of the largest tsunamis in the Sea of Japan, it generated a tsunami with waves of 10 m (33 ft) at present-day Masuda, Shimane .
Between 1805 and 1810, Hokusai published the series Mirror of Dutch Pictures – Eight Views of Edo. [46] The Great Wave off Kanagawa would not have been as successful in the West if audiences did not have a sense of familiarity with the work. It has been interpreted as a Western play seen through the eyes of a Japanese. According to Richard Lane:
The most obvious was that in tsunami-prone areas, a power station's sea wall must be adequately tall and robust. [44] At the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant , closer to the epicenter of the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, [ 219 ] the sea wall was 14 meters (46 ft) tall and successfully withstood the tsunami, preventing serious damage and ...
A tsunami stone is a stone monument that warns people to move upwards after a large earthquake to avoid a potential tsunami. [2] They are placed all around the coasts of Japan. Some simply provide this warning, while others list death tolls, are placed near mass graves or say where homes should be built. They have a flat face and some are as ...
The 1771 Great Yaeyama Tsunami (also called 明和の大津波, the Great Tsunami of Meiwa) was caused by the Yaeyama Great Earthquake at about 8 A.M. on April 24, 1771, south-southeast of Ishigaki Island, part of the former Ryūkyū Kingdom and now part of present-day Okinawa, Japan.
Lake Furukawanuma (古川沼, Furukawanuma) was a lake that existed in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan until March 11, 2011. When the 2011 Tohoku earthquake struck, the resulting tsunami destroyed the sand wall that separated the lake from the sea. The lake's western edge thus became part of the new coastline, and the lake became part of the sea.
The Miracle Pine Tree (奇跡の一本松, Kiseki no Ippon matsu) was the lone surviving tree of the Takata Pine Forest, which suffered deadly damage from the Great East Japan Earthquake tsunami in March 2011. [3] [4] It was located in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture.