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    Tanabata- Japanese Star Festival Every country around the world had many different festivals and celebrations that out own. Japan has many different festivals each season based on the lunar calendar. One of the most celebrated festivals in Japan is a festival called Tanabata‚ which is also called the Star Festival. The first annual observance of summer is known as Tanabata‚ falling on July 7. It is a day that commemorates a romantic story‚ first handed down to Japan’s imperial court via China and

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    tsunami. It killed over 15000 people and the total cost of the disaster was over $300billion and Japan is still recovering today. Over all‚ tsunami has the greatest impact due to the long-term damage the people would have to face. For example in Sendai leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant caused the area around it to be closed for a longtime for it to be safe to enter. Japan relies on nuclear power‚ and many of the country’s nuclear reactors remain closed because of stricter seismic

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    4038600-137160How Are Tsunami’s Made -Initiation The sea floor rises and drops suddenly creating large columns of water -Split ddsddsThe initial tsunami then splits into two‚ one heads further into sea another heads towards shore -Amplification As the wave appdsroaches shore‚ the height of the wave is amplified as the wave gathers energy as approaches shore -Run Up The leading wave is steepened‚ the wave does not break at this point‚ instead it acts like a wall of water smashing everything

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    Tsunami in Japan

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    TSUNAMI IN JAPAN Japan was hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11‚ 2011‚ that triggered a deadly 23-foot tsunami in the country’s north. The giant waves deluged cities and rural areas alike‚ sweeping away cars‚ homes‚ buildings‚ a train‚ and boats‚ leaving a path of death and devastation in its wake. Video footage showed cars racing away from surging waves. The earthquake—the largest in Japan’s history—struck about 230 miles northeast of Tokyo. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued warnings

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    Effects of Earthquake

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    The destructive effects of an earthquake can be classified into primary and secondary effects. Primary effects are the immediate damage caused by the quake‚ such as collapsing buildings‚ roads and bridges‚ which may kill many people. Those lucky enough to survive can suffer badly from shock and panic. Secondary effects are the after-effects of the earthquake‚ such as fires‚ tidal waves‚ landslides and disease. Fire - earthquakes destroy gas pipes and electric cables‚ causing fires to spread

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    Japan e-mail: shori@med.nihon-u.ac.jp N. Wada Division of Nephrology‚ Shizuoka Children’s Hospital‚ 860 Urushiyama‚ Shizuoka‚ Shizuoka 420-0953‚ Japan T. Inagaki Division of General Practice‚ Miyagi Children’s Hospital‚ 4-3-17 Ochiai‚ Aoba Ward‚ Sendai‚ Miyagi 989-3126‚ Japan M. Nagata Department of Pathology‚ Institute of Basic Medical Sciences‚ University of Tsukuba‚ 1-1-1 Tennodai‚ Tsukuba 305-8575‚ Japan in this period was statistically significant

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    disaster; first began as an undersea earthquake‚ off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. Then‚ the submarine earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0‚ transformed to a 15-meter tsunami waves (Akira‚ 2013). In the blink of an eye‚ the east coast of Japan‚ especially Sendai was engulfed by the massive tsunami waves‚ and led to the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi and the Fukushima Daiini nuclear power plants. In the documentary – Children of the Tsunami directed by Dan Reed (2012)‚ it provides a glimpse into

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    SCIENCE Energy Resources Research Assignment Nuclear Fission Nuclear energy is a power produced during the nuclear reaction‚ It is an energy that is found in the nucleus of an Atom. Energy must be released so it could create electricity‚ it is released from the atoms in two ways by Nuclear Fusion or by Nuclear Fission. Nuclear Fusion is when energy is released which is when atoms are combined or fused together to form a bigger atom. Nuclear Fission

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    2011 Tohoku Earthquake

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    survey after the tsunami was performed on March of 2011 up to the next month. It was planned as an aspect of the collaborative survey and the data have been incorporated into a single outcome. In the meantime‚ heights of tsunami along the coastlines of Sendai Bay reached almost 10 meters with run-up distances in extending up to 4 kilometers. With these recorded tsunami heights‚ it is significant that the government will be able to adopt measures related to mitigation and protection against the hazards

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    intensity of an earthquake at a given location‚ i.e. what people actually feel at a given location‚ while the Richter scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake‚ i.e. the energy an earthquake releases at the epicenter. 2011 Earthquake The 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami was a 9.0 mega thrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday 11 March 2011. The epicenter was 130 kilometers off the east coast of the Oshika Peninsula‚ Tokyo‚ with the hypocenter at a depth of

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