Disaster Creates Mass Tokyo Exodus
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As foreigners are urged by their governments to consider leaving Tokyo, the Japanese are not taking any chances and have started rushing out of the capital. In Tokyo, concern is growing that radiation leaking from the Fukushima plant about 270 kilometres away will spread. Many have begun hoarding supplies of basic necessities, in case they need to spend long periods indoors. Al Jazeera’s Andrew Thomas reports on the mood in the busy metropolis. (Mar 16, 2011)
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The 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami (東北地方太平洋沖地震, Tōhoku Chihō Taiheiyō-oki Jishin, literally “Tōhoku region Pacific Ocean offshore earthquake”) was a 9.0M megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011. The epicenter was reported to be 130 kilometers (81 mi) off the east coast of the Oshika Peninsula, Tōhoku, with the hypocenter at a depth of 32 km (20 mi). The earthquake triggered tsunami warnings and evacuations along Japan’s Pacific coast and in at least 20 countries, including the entire Pacific coast of North America and South America. The earthquake created extremely destructive tsunami waves of up to 10 meters (33 ft) that struck Japan minutes after the quake, in some cases travelling up to 10 km (6 mi) inland, with smaller waves after several hours in many other countries.
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