Chiba Prefecture
Chiba Prefecture (千葉県, Chiba-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region and the Greater Tokyo Area. Its capital is Chiba City.
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Hayato Takizawa, Executive Director of NPO Tohokuru, Iwate Prefecture 2014
２０１４年３月９日アメリカNYでの第三回TOGETHER FOR 3.11東日本大震災追悼式典
被災地岩手県から寄せられたオフィシャルビデオメッセージ
© 一般社団法人とほくる代表理事 瀧澤勇人
TOGETHER FOR 3.11 THIRD ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL
FOR JAPAN'S EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI VICTIMS
March 9, 2014 New York, NY, USA
Official video message from the affected areas in Iwate, Japan.
© Hayato Takizawa, Executive Director of NPO Tohokuru, Iwate Prefecture
Produced by Fellowship for Japan
Edited by Marcom Visual Creation. Inc.,
Translated by Yuka Miyata
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一般社団法人とほくる代表理事：瀧澤勇人
東北電力の社員である瀧澤さんは福島県にある職場で被災され、震災後、電力の復旧作業に従事。電力復旧が落ち着いた5月、南相馬で災害ボランティアに関わり、７月に職場の休職制度を利用して2年間復興支援活動に関わる。「被災地にもっと人を」という目的で被災地の状況を詳細に伝えるガイドブック「復興現場の歩き方」をボランティアで作成。東北震災復興ツーリズム協会を立ち上げ、一般社団法人（非営利型）とほくるとして法人化。「復興商店街や宿泊できる場所、また震災前はどんな様子だったか等の情報が載っているガイドブックがあれば、訪れた人は本当に助かると思うんです」。2013年度版 宮城県に続き、2014年は岩手県、福島県、発行予定。
Hayato Takizawa
Executive Director of NPO Tohokuru
Hayato Takizawa is a Tohoku Electric Power employee, and was in his office in Fukushima when the earthquake struck. He joined the power recovery crew immediately, and two months later joined a volunteer disaster relief group in Minami Soma. In July 2011 he took a two-year leave of absence from work to continue volunteering in the recovery efforts. To help bring people back to the affected areas, Hayato created a guidebook, Walking through Post-Earthquake Tohoku. He also started up the Tohoku Earthquake Recovery Tourism Association, which eventually became NPO Tohokuru. He says, For visitors to the affected areas in Tohoku, it is extremely helpful to have a guidebook showing the restored shopping areas, local lodging information, and images from before the earthquake. Tohokuru published a version of this guidebook for Miyagi Prefecture in 2013, and will publish the Iwate and Fukushima versions in 2014.
Tohoku earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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00:06:13 1 Earthquake
00:09:21 1.1 Geology
00:14:50 1.2 Energy
00:16:24 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:21:38 1.4 Aftershocks
00:24:34 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:26:46 2 Tsunami
00:28:17 2.1 Japan
00:44:32 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:50:27 3 Land subsidence
00:52:42 4 Casualties
00:52:51 4.1 Japan
00:59:44 4.2 Overseas
01:00:33 5 Damage and effects
01:03:11 5.1 Ports
01:04:48 5.2 Dams and water problems
01:06:13 5.3 Electricity
01:12:06 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
01:14:02 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:18:21 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:20:35 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:22:20 5.6 Wind power
01:22:48 5.7 Transport
01:28:10 5.8 Telecommunications
01:29:35 5.9 Defense
01:30:17 5.10 Space center
01:31:00 5.11 Cultural properties
01:32:42 6 Aftermath
01:35:16 7 Humanitarian response
01:35:48 8 Media coverage
01:39:22 9 Scientific and research response
01:44:57 10 See also
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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 9.0–9.1 (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 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 435 mph for up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at the more than a hundred evacuation sites that washed away.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 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 ...
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
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 fifth 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 15,887 deaths, 6,150 injured, and 2,612 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.
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2011 Japan earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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00:05:12 1 Earthquake
00:07:49 1.1 Geology
00:12:28 1.2 Energy
00:13:47 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:18:13 1.4 Aftershocks
00:20:40 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:22:30 2 Tsunami
00:23:48 2.1 Japan
00:37:20 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:42:26 3 Land subsidence
00:44:18 4 Casualties
00:44:27 4.1 Japan
00:50:17 4.2 Overseas
00:50:59 5 Damage and effects
00:53:11 5.1 Ports
00:54:33 5.2 Dams and water problems
00:55:45 5.3 Electricity
01:00:40 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
01:02:17 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:05:52 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:07:44 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:09:14 5.6 Wind power
01:09:39 5.7 Transport
01:14:09 5.8 Telecommunications
01:15:21 5.9 Defense
01:15:58 5.10 Space center
01:16:35 5.11 Cultural properties
01:18:02 6 Aftermath
01:20:11 7 Humanitarian response
01:20:40 8 Media coverage
01:23:39 9 Scientific and research response
01:28:17 10 See also
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Speaking Rate: 0.8806638741601678
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-D
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- Socrates
SUMMARY
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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 9.0–9.1 (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 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 435 mph for up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at the more than a hundred evacuation sites that washed away.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 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 ...
2011 Tōhoku earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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00:06:39 1 Earthquake
00:09:55 1.1 Geology
00:15:54 1.2 Energy
00:17:35 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:23:20 1.4 Aftershocks
00:26:23 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:28:44 2 Tsunami
00:30:24 2.1 Japan
00:48:06 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:54:35 3 Land subsidence
00:56:56 4 Casualties
00:57:06 4.1 Japan
01:04:41 4.2 Overseas
01:05:35 5 Damage and effects
01:08:25 5.1 Ports
01:10:09 5.2 Dams and water problems
01:11:41 5.3 Electricity
01:18:00 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
01:20:04 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:24:39 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:27:03 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:28:58 5.6 Wind power
01:29:28 5.7 Transport
01:35:20 5.8 Telecommunications
01:36:54 5.9 Defense
01:37:39 5.10 Space center
01:38:27 5.11 Cultural properties
01:40:16 6 Aftermath
01:43:00 7 Humanitarian response
01:43:34 8 Media coverage
01:47:23 9 Scientific and research response
01:53:22 10 See also
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Speaking Rate: 0.7056265830443723
Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-D
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- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
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 9.0–9.1 (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 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 435 mph for up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at the more than a hundred evacuation sites that washed away.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 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 ...
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:04:42 1 Earthquake
00:07:11 1.1 Geology
00:11:35 1.2 Energy
00:12:51 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:17:03 1.4 Aftershocks
00:19:21 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:21:06 2 Tsunami
00:22:20 2.1 Japan
00:35:28 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:40:11 3 Land subsidence
00:41:59 4 Casualties
00:42:08 4.1 Japan
00:47:41 4.2 Overseas
00:48:21 5 Damage and effects
00:50:26 5.1 Ports
00:51:44 5.2 Dams and water problems
00:52:52 5.3 Electricity
00:57:32 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
00:59:04 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:02:36 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:04:23 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:05:49 5.6 Wind power
01:06:13 5.7 Transport
01:10:31 5.8 Telecommunications
01:11:39 5.9 Defense
01:12:13 5.10 Space center
01:12:50 5.11 Cultural properties
01:14:12 6 Aftermath
01:16:14 7 Humanitarian response
01:16:42 8 Media coverage
01:19:32 9 Scientific and research response
01:24:03 10 See also
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- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
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Speaking Rate: 0.9554487759653858
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-C
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
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 9.0–9.1 (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 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 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 Pow ...
2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:45 1 Earthquake
00:07:11 1.1 Geology
00:11:31 1.2 Energy
00:12:46 1.3 Geophysical effects
00:16:51 1.4 Aftershocks
00:19:04 1.5 Earthquake Warning System
00:20:46 2 Tsunami
00:22:00 2.1 Japan
00:34:40 2.2 Elsewhere across the Pacific
00:39:16 3 Land subsidence
00:41:02 4 Casualties
00:41:11 4.1 Japan
00:46:37 4.2 Overseas
00:47:17 5 Damage and effects
00:49:21 5.1 Ports
00:50:39 5.2 Dams and water problems
00:51:45 5.3 Electricity
00:56:15 5.4 Oil, gas and coal
00:57:43 5.5 Nuclear power plants
01:01:02 5.5.1 Fukushima meltdowns
01:02:47 5.5.2 Incidents elsewhere
01:04:11 5.6 Wind power
01:04:35 5.7 Transport
01:08:50 5.8 Telecommunications
01:09:56 5.9 Defense
01:10:30 5.10 Space center
01:11:07 5.11 Cultural properties
01:12:28 6 Aftermath
01:14:29 7 Humanitarian response
01:14:57 8 Media coverage
01:17:42 9 Scientific and research response
01:21:56 10 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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Speaking Rate: 0.9985378624446191
Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-C
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
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 9.0–9.1 (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 29 km (18 mi).
The earthquake is often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai) and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, the Great Sendai Earthquake, the Great Tōhoku Earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 435 mph for up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at the more than a hundred evacuation sites that washed away.The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), increased earth's rotational speed by 1.8 µs per day, and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
Initially, the earthquake caused sinking of part of Honshu's Pacific coast by up to roughly a metre, but after about three years, the coast rose back and kept on rising to exceed its original height.The tsunami swept the Japanese mainland and killed over ten thousand people, mainly through drowning, though blunt trauma also caused many deaths. The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,897 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,533 people missing across twenty prefectures, and a report from 2015 indicated 228,863 people were still living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation.A report by the National Police Agency of Japan on 10 September 2018 listed 121,778 buildings as total collapsed, with a further 280,926 buildings half collapsed, and another 699,180 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 ...