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The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震 Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin?) was a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 30 km (19 mi). The earthquake is also often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災 Higashi nihon daishinsai?) and also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and the 3.11 Earthquake. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, travelled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east and shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), and generated sound waves detected by the low-orbiting GOCE satellite. On 10 February 2014, a Japanese National Police Agency report confirmed 15,889 deaths, 6,152 injured, and 2,601 people missing across twenty prefectures, as well as 127,290 buildings totally collapsed, with a further 272,788 buildings 'half collapsed', and another 747,989 buildings partially damaged. The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, "In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan." Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water. The tsunami caused nuclear accidents, primarily the level 7 meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex, and the associated evacuation zones affecting hundreds of thousands of residents. Many electrical generators were taken down, and at least three nuclear reactors suffered explosions due to hydrogen gas that had built up within their outer containment buildings after cooling system failure resulting from the loss of electrical power. Residents within a 20 km (12 mi) radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and a 10 km (6.2 mi) radius of the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant were evacuated. In addition, the U.S. recommended that its citizens evacuate everyone within up to 80 km (50 mi) of the plant. Early estimates placed insured losses from the earthquake alone at US$14.5 to $34.6 billion. The Bank of Japan offered ¥15 trillion (US$183 billion) to the world banking system on 14 March in an effort to normalize market conditions. The World Bank's estimated economic cost was US$235 billion, making it the costliest natural disaster in world history. An upthrust of 6 to 8 meters along a 180-km wide seabed at 60 km offshore from the east coast of Tōhoku, The tsunami warning issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency was the most serious on its warning scale; it rated as a "major tsunami", being at least 3 m (9.8 ft) high. The earthquake took place at 14:46 JST (GMT 6:46) around 67 km (42 mi) from the nearest point on Japan's coastline, and initial estimates indicated the tsunami would have taken 10 to 30 minutes to reach the areas first affected, and then areas farther north and south based on the geography of the coastline. Like the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the damage by surging water, though much more localized, was far more deadly and destructive than the actual quake. There were reports of entire towns destroyed from tsunami-hit areas in Japan, including 9,500 missing in Minamisanriku; Among several factors causing the high death toll from the tsunami, one was the unexpectedly large size of the water surge. The tsunami walls at several of the affected cities were based on much smaller tsunami heights. Also, many people caught in the tsunami thought that they were located on high enough ground to be safe. Tsunami flooding on the Sendai Airport runway Large parts of Kuji and the southern section of Ōfunato including the port area were almost entirely destroyed.
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where's naruto when you need him the most?
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So, did the boys in the apartment survive......or did their apartment block crumble and sink.
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that's a lot of water
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one thing you can always count on
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I remember this in the news!
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whale at 5:57
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No more fucking anime would suck
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I know Nani is what and Kore WA is that. Nani kore? why are they saying what is this/that don't they know what it is?
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Nani kore? Nani kore? Tsunami baka
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Does anybody notice the bird disappear @1:50
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everytime he said that word botaa sounds like he says toilet bodea` like it scared the shit rite out of him that's mother nature rinsing the cap off her planet floor they must have made it to dirty by living there sorry Japan it's going to happen again but even worse this time so it's useless to try to switch to solar power mother nature doesn't care anymore it's to close to the end of times for us humans just let it happen there's no other choice for us preppers wasted there time and funds because all u saved will be contaminated useless huge waste to prep for the end only thing gonna keep u alive is to find the tallest mountain and try to make it to the top yeah I said try like over a million people will be trying along with you fighting there way to the top killing one another and I'll just kick back and lol while yall go crazy thinking u can save yourself but you can't and it's not even worth trying
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r
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this earth belongs to the water gods not us
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the other Japan tsunami footage is more shocking from the school house where you hear them giving up sirens and warnings and watching people ignore it and laughed as the waves start coming in in a laugh because they think it's little and then it's nothing but destruction and you can see the nuclear power plant in the background
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I'm suppose to be playing game of war but this one player keeps kicking my ass!!!!
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OMG
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the sea water is black...
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What The Fuck
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... When the wave surmounted the sea wall, my heart skipped beats. What a terrifying, terrifying tragedy. In my life, I've experienced two minor earthquakes, an F3 tornado nearby, and a quite close lightning strike. The sheer power of Nature ...
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I fell bad for them it's so sad that some people died 😪