What we can learn from Japan’s Disaster Prevention Day
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What we can learn from Japan’s Disaster Prevention Day
Devastating Photos of the Aftermath of the Japan Earthquake See all: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/g23007523/japan-earthquake-mudslide-photos/?slide=7
Like most annual preparedness efforts, Disaster Prevention Day grew out of a catastrophe. Ninety-five years ago, Japan suffered its worst historic natural disaster, the Sept. 1, 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. The magnitude 8.1 earthquake was centered beneath the greater Tokyo area and the combination of shaking, tsunami and fire is estimated to have taken over 140,000 lives.
The Great Kanto earthquake was centered only nine miles beneath the Kanto plain, 19 miles east of Yokohama and about 30 miles southeast of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace. The earthquake ruptured a 60 by 60 mile interface related to the subducting boundary between the Pacific and Eurasian plates, thrusting the overlying plate about six feet…
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