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These structures helped save thousands of lives in the 2011 tsunami in Japan. People evacuate to the roof of an elementary school after a tsunami warning is announced on March 13, 2011 in ...
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.
A seismogram recorded in Massachusetts, United States. The magnitude 9.1 (M w) undersea megathrust earthquake occurred on 11 March 2011 at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) in the north-western Pacific Ocean at a relatively shallow depth of 32 km (20 mi), [9] [56] with its epicenter approximately 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku, Japan, lasting approximately six minutes.
Some ten days after the quake, reports began to emerge of incidents of looting and theft in quake and tsunami-hit areas. By 20 March 2011, 250 thefts, with ¥4.9 million (US$43 thousand) in merchandise stolen from stores and ¥5.8 million (US$52 thousand) in cash, were reported to the Miyagi Prefectural Police.
The stench of alcohol filled the small bar on Sunday as Aoi Hoshino swept up glass from whiskey bottles smashed in a strong earthquake the night before, one appearing to be an aftershock from a ...
Japan is an extremely quake-prone nation, but a tsunami warning of the magnitude of Monday's had not been issued since a major quake and tsunami caused meltdowns at a nuclear plant in March 2011.
St. Lucia, West Indies: [19] The flood displaced about 500 people and received immediate assistance from local government and international organizations. No fatalities or injuries were reported. [20] 27 – 28 July 2011: 1 heavy rain Dubuque County, Iowa – Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. [21] 11 January 2011: 35 heavy rain
Residents of the Pennsylvania steel town that fateful May morning in the spring of 1889 heard a low rumble in the distance that might have been the sound of thunder, and they noted a breeze ...