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2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami + Fukushima nuclear disaster: $360 [6] [7] [5] $487.6 19,759 Undersea Megathrust Earthquake, Tsunami, Contamination (Radioactive) 2011 Japan: Great Hanshin earthquake: $200 [8] $399.9 5,502 – 6,434 Earthquake 1995 Japan: 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes: $157.8 [9] [10] $157.8 59,488 – 62,013 Earthquake 2023
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) submits a report to Japan's nuclear safety agency which predicts the possibility of a tsunami up to 10.2 metres high at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the event of an earthquake similar to the magnitude 7.2 earthquake with accompanying tsunami that devastated the area in 1896.
Whether the mass release was higher or lower than for Tambora is contentious; Tambora might have produced more sulfur [108] but Samalas may have been more effective at injecting tephra into the stratosphere. [109] After the eruption, it probably took weeks to months for the fallout to reach large distances from the volcano. [84]
The plant was closed at the time, so deaths were few, with only three plant employees being killed, E. S. "Old Man" Thompson, Clarence Brady and Joseph Flynt, and Alice Finch, who died of a heart attack after the blast rattled her home in Elgin, Illinois, forty miles away. Most buildings in a 5-mile (8.0 km) radius were rendered flat or ...
Distance of the Voyager 1 spacecraft from Sun (as of Oct 2018), the farthest man-made object so far [40] 62.03 Tm Estimated radius of the event horizon of the supermassive black hole in NGC 4889, the largest-known black hole to date 10 14: 100 Tm: 180 Tm Size of the debris disk around the star 51 Pegasi [41] 10 15: 1 petameter (Pm) ~7.5 Pm