The reason I chose this earthquake to research is because not only was it a couple of years ago but it was one of the strongest earthquakes of all time and the strongest earthquake to have ever it Japan before, so i thought it would be interesting to explore and research this earthquake.
I began to look at what actually caused the earthquake in Japan, and i don't mean just the tectonic plates, i mean specifically the type of tectonic plates etc and then how it caused the tsunami and how the earthquake caused a ripple effect leading into a tsunami and how it was caused.
Below is the link to where I found this information and in this site it talks about all the details about the earthquake and the tsunami and how it was caused. and it even uses interactive slides for the user to go further in finding more information. Also below are some screenshots that show this interactive information.
This is a great example of interaction along with great information and helps to usually prevent what caused the earthquake. This is something i'd like to add in my iBook and if possible i'd like to try and add this specific example if i can as its very well made and can help to work well with relating to my topic in this chapter in a great interactive way.
After researching into what actually caused the earthquake and tsunami i then went onto researching the impacts that happened after the earthquake and tsunami hit japan. Below is a diagram that is quite useful as it presents a lot of important information about the impact of japan as well as when it was and where it was etc.
Here is the link below:
The research i did from the impact of the earthquake and tsunami was topics like the amount of deaths/people missing/people who were evacuated as well as how many buildings etc collapsed and life afterwards as well as the cost of damage and the nuclear crisis. Here are some of the information i found below:
No. of Deaths: Over 18,000
No. of people missing: Over 2500
No. of people evacuated: 500,000
No. of Buildings damaged: 117,570
No. of Buildings completely destroyed: 14,606
Costs: 25 Trillion Yen
There are just some of the statistics and its quite jaw dropping and it just shows how much damage and people were affected by this great disaster.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/12/japan-earthquake-2011-nuclear-meltdown-threat_n_835002.html
These are all of the links above i looked for when it came to researching the impact of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011. A lot of these sites had great and vast amounts of detailed content relating to the impact, and with some topics i wanted to talk about i had to narrow some of it down despite there was a lot to talk about in others. I did this in order to fit all equal amounts of content for each type of impacts i.e. deaths, buildings collapsed, impact on economy and the nuclear crisis etc.
After doing research o that section i then went onto researching how japan were able to overcome the tsunami and earthquake, where found information about how the government didn't provide as much help or cooperation when it came to rebuilding structures and giving people homes. Apparently over 300,000 people still remained homeless after a year from the disaster. This led to the prime minister Naoto
Kan to resign from his role due to his lack of dealing with the situation from this disaster.
Also despite this issue there was a wide range of support from countries and organisations and apparently around
116
countries and 28 international organisations that had offered assistance for
the people in Japan. At March 2012 it
was recorded that 520 billion Yen was donated towards Japan’s damages.
Below are the top 20 donating
countries:
1.
United States – 2.99 billion yen (approx. $30.3
million)
2.
Taiwan – 2.92 billion yen ($29.6 million)
3.
Thailand – 2.05 billion yen ($20.8 million)
4.
Oman – 1.07 billion yen ($10.8 million)
5.
China – 910 million yen ($9.2 million)
6.
Algeria – 830 million yen ($8.4 million)
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Vietnam – 780 million yen ($7.9 million)
8.
United Kingdom – 780 million yen ($7.9 million)
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Hong Kong – 720 million yen ($7.3 million)
10.
France – 610 million yen ($6.2 million)
11.
Switzerland – 550 million yen ($5.6 million)
12.
Malaysia – 510 million yen ($5.2 million)
13.
India – 480 million yen ($4.9 million)
14.
Brazil – 480 million yen ($4.9 million)
15.
Papua New Guinea – 320 million yen ($3.2 million)
16.
Singapore – 310 million yen ($3.1 million)
17.
Australia – 300 million yen ($3 million)
18.
Mongolia – 290 million yen ($2.9 million)
19.
Philippines – 290 million yen ($2.9 million)
20.
Italy – 270 million yen ($2.8 million)
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Here are some of the links to the places i researched for this section
I also researched the visuals from when the earthquake had first occured and the improvements from 11 months after the earthquake and tsunami had struck. Here's some examples of these visuals below, they are very powerful images and i would like to incorporate them in my iBook, as it shows visually how they've recovered through rebuilding and fixing the environments that were destroyed and damaged.
After getting all that research done i then decided to do some research on people's experiences and managed to find a couple. The ones i found at the time were mainly from people who hadn't really been affected by the earthquake that badly, however i was able to find some stories of people who were in far worse situations. Some of these stories are presented differently. Some are a personal statement and story and some are in the form of just a statement and also others in the form of an interview.
These were the ones i found and am thinking of including:
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