Earthquakes in Japan!By anis riache

Where and when was this? Japan is in east asia, Tokyo The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake the Kanto plain on the Japanese

main island of Honshū at 11:58:44 September 1, 1923 according to the history channel there was an estimate of one hundred thousand deaths and an other forty thousand missing

According to google earth is to it also an the far east of asia, as the sun moves east to west, its called the land of the rising sun because its technically the country to the most to the east, it is also an island, and its relatively close to Indonesia which is known for tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes, japan might have the same issues. The kanto plain earthquake was very big, it was actually over an 8, that’s tremendous! It was an 8.3, but it wasent the cause of all the damage, some of you might have realized that the earth quakes happened some time before lunch time, and surprisingly the cause of all the damage was fire, and this fire was started by kjitchen stoves! it was said by one of the history channels documentaries that over 70% of all the stoves in Tokyo were on preparing the lunch

Map of Japan and a picture of the Kinto earthquake

Plate boundaries? The Eurasian plate is pushing east against the

Filipino and pacific plates, the pacific one is pushing back , the Australian one is pushing up north against the Eurasian, Filipino and Eurasian plate, also the north American plate is pushing south against them all (japan is surrounded by all these plates)

As japan is in the middle of them all its most definitely going to get stuck in the wreckage and have loads of earth quakes, it being an island, If there is an earthquake in the sea, that might cause tsunamis

Japans plate boundaries

The map is not very clear as i could not find a way to cut it.

What type of natural hazards before? Will it happen again? according to the Wikipedia article “volcanoes of

honshu” there are 32 volcanoes in Honshu, the main island of japan

the plate tectonic map provided for us by miss nickell demonstrates that there are a lot of moving plates around japan and even one of the islands of japan is actually on an other plate then the others

with so volcanoes there is always a risk of eruption which might cause a lot of deadly ash and and even maybe a nuclear winter, as said by miss nickel

also with so many moving plates its certain there are plenty of earthquakes, miss nickel, said that there are an average of 5000 earthquakes a year in japan

How developed is the civilization? What’s it like? According to to both of these wikepedia

articles, here are the statistiques or demographics of japan and tokyo

Tokyo has a population 35 to 39 million people it has an area of 2,187.08 km² it has a human of 5,847 /km² it has well funded building, meaning solid low rate of poverty it has a pretty high senior population it is the technological capital of the world it is mostly composed of tall buildings

How is the weather in japan?

Basically, Japan has four distinct seasons. Spring months are March, April, and May. Summer months are June, July, and August. Autumn months are September, October, and November. Winter months are December, January, and February. Summer is hot and humid in general. During the winter, it snows a lot on the Sea of Japan side, and it is dry on the Pacific Ocean side. So unlike other places like california, there is not an actual earthquake rate increase as its still somewhat cold in summer

How developed is the civilization? What’s it like? # 2 It has an extremely high population density which

means that if an earth quake struck a small area, a lot of damage would still be done. Also it has a low poverty rate and it’s the technological capital of the world, it is also the most expensive city on earth, so you would guess that it has good ways of making sure it doesent crumble down,like deep foundations, and bendable metal, but a big issue is wooden houses, as a lot of you know in the olden times Japanese houses were very tall and were made out of wood, I heard from miss nickell that the tall sky scrapers that are built to last are built on rolers which woosh around when there are earthquakes.

Pictures of tokyo

Just look at that! It doesent event look real

PPP? (Predict, prepare, protect???) If there are 5000 earthquakes a year in japan, and japan

not being all that big, you’de guess a few would hit tokyo, so really just dont be surprised if there is a earthquake

Like i just said, there are definetly going to be quite a few earthquakes in a year, And you’ll pratiquely never know when there going to happen, so to always be prepared, make sure you have a first aid kit at home, in your car and in your class room! You might not think its going to of any use against and an earthquake, it might just come in handy.

Have a radio with you in your house car and your job or class should have one , flash lights because there is probably going to be a power cut during and after the earthquake.

PPP? (Predict, prepare, protect???)

Your probably not going to make it to your basement during an earthquake, but just in case, always keep supplies in your basement, such as food and water, batteries.

You probably have never heard of these before but you can now buy smoke bombs which are of the color internatrional orange(this is used if your stuck under your house, international orange is the orange used on airport men jackets amd on ikes and cars too, this signals an emergency and helps your local fire men to find. A international orange flare would be usefull if your not immured or buried under rubble. DO NOT use these for fun as you can be arrested.

Yes it is the fire mens job to to help rescue people after an earthquake

PPP? (Predict, prepare, protect???) If your in you’r car during the earth

quake try to drive to an open area clear from tall buildings, stay inside and put your hands on your neck and you for arms bent back on your ears

If your in an office build try going under a desk or a a large plateform, and do the following position! On and dont go into the elevators or toilets or storage rooms

Thats all folks!

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Bibliography! Google earth  Tectonic plates given to us by miss nickel *Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike

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Alot about the the preparation and protection came from accumalted knowledge across my life,also when there is an earthquake the news tells you how to prepare and and protect your self