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Mar 10, 2021 · The Fukushima disaster in maps and charts. Ten years after Japan’s deadly earthquake and tsunami, we take a look at how the disaster unfolded. By Alia Chughtai.
- Alia Chughtai
6 days ago · Fukushima, ken (prefecture), northeastern Honshu, Japan, facing the Pacific Ocean. It is mostly mountainous, and settlement is concentrated in small interior basins and along the coast. Inawashiro Lake, 40 square miles (100 square km) in area, occupies the centre of the prefecture. The southeastern.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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City Town Village Topographic map of Fukushima Basin. The lower left is Mount Azuma-kofuji, and Mount Shinobu can be seen as the isolated elevated land mass in the southeast of the basin. Fukushima is both the southernmost prefecture of Tōhoku region and the prefecture of Tōhoku region that is closest to Tokyo.
The Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan which began on March 11, 2011. The proximate cause of the accident was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami , which resulted in electrical grid failure and damaged nearly all of the power plant's backup energy ...
Aug 23, 2023 · It triggered a tsunami which swept over Japan's main island of Honshu, killing more than 18,000 people and wiping entire towns off the map. At the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the gigantic...
6 days ago · Fukushima accident, disaster that occurred in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi (‘Number One’) nuclear power plant on the Pacific coast of northern Japan, which was caused by a severe earthquake and powerful series of tsunami waves and was the second worst nuclear power accident in history.
Oct 30, 2019 · Explore the history, causes, and impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan, which occurred after a powerful earthquake and tsunami in 2011. See maps, videos, and photos of the plant, the evacuation zones, and the radiation spread in the environment.
