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Entire towns were destroyed in tsunami-hit areas in Japan, including 9,500 missing in Minamisanriku; [153] one thousand bodies had been recovered in the town by 14 March 2011. [154] While the tsunami was able to surmount sea walls and floodgates in many areas along the coastline of the Tohoku region, Fudai, Iwate, was spared destruction due to ...
The remnants of the Crisis Management Department Building where Miki Endo was swept away by the tsunami. Miki Endo (遠藤 未希, Endō Miki, July 18, 1986, Japan – March 11, 2011, Minamisanriku, Japan) was an employee of the town of Minamisanriku's Crisis Management Department, tasked with broadcasting disaster advisories and warnings.
Two other workers, Kazuhiko Kokubo, 24, and Yoshiki Terashima, 21, were killed by the tsunami while conducting emergency repairs immediately after the quake. Their bodies were found on 30 March. [12] The workers and volunteers were assigned the mission of stabilizing the reactors.
The 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami that ravaged parts of Japan’s northeastern coast on March 11, 2011 killed about 20,000 people and drove thousands from their homes in the prefectures of ...
This is an alphabetically sorted list of cities and towns severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Cities and towns listed here reported at least US$ 100,000 in damage or at least one death.
The U.S. Embassy in Japan had advised evacuation of all American nationals to outside a 80 km (50 mi) radius from the Fukushima power plant on 16 March 2011, [108] which is a far greater distance than the 20 km (12 mi) evacuation zone the Japanese government had already recommended for all inhabitants of the affected region, [109] but later ...
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TOKYO (AP) — As Japan prepares to mark the 13th anniversary of its worst-ever nuclear disaster, ... A magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, damaged the Fukushima Daiichi plant ...