The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis. — Just yesterday UN revealed Pakistanis are now taking loans to pay for food and you people are passing this childish statements like a desperate political party campaigning. Now, other countries prone to earthquakes are moving to mimic the Japanese system for disaster management. The Great East Japan Earthquake, as it is named by the Japanese, was extraordinarily devastating to a country long used to and well prepared for natural disasters. In Japan, aftershocks from the earthquake are still continuing. In a subduction zone, one plate slides beneath another into the mantle, the hotter layer beneath the crust. 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Japan has repeatedly been referred to as the "most prepared nation in the world" for an earthquake or tsunami disaster. And you know Pakistan is the only country where a person spends it 43% of earning for food. However, as bad as the situation currently is, it could have been much worse if a quake of this magnitude had hit any country other than Japan. What else? Photograph: Itsuo Inouye/AP, the declaration of a state of emergency at one nuclear plant. Japan's earthquake preparation has spared it from a far worse fate. In the last annual drill, over 670,000 people participated. Concrete is still used in a lot of construction so most of the buildings have deep foundations. The login page will open in a new tab. Written just 5 weeks after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011, this personal account provides new lessons for disaster nursing. sorry every1 but she deserves this, © 2020 ProPakistani.PK - All rights reserved. The northeast coast of Japan was hit by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake on Friday, the 11th of March. “If this could happen to Japan, what about us?” But it … In Kobe more than 80% of the victims were crushed to death. For us, human life is not valuable we can sell whole nation for just few Rs (in the name of Deeat :-( ) …. Many modern techniques are also employed in order to protect the buildings against an earthquake, for instance, base isolation. That Japan was not adequately prepared for the tsunami that hit the northeastern Honshu coast on March 11, 2011, first became apparent at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. And here’s why. On March 11, 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake occurred 231 miles northeast of Tokyo. Financial resources created new opportunities The media’s heightened interest in the Japan disaster produced a environment in which external, private partners were … Japan is one of the most earthquake- and tsunami-prone areas in the world. This is not new. “It’s required that our government take a look” – Just yesterday UN revealed Pakistanis are now taking loans to pay for food and you people are passing this childish statements like a desperate political party campaigning. There’s a lesson to be learned for us Pakistani’s too. Forget them and concentrate on facts. Yet … In the classic battle of Man vs. With more expensive food iteam. HAARP is a scientific project. Every one is just thinking to earn enough for his children so that they can eat one more day. WAS IT WORTH IT? When the earthquake severed the connection between the nuclear power plant and the Japan electrical grid, the diesel backup system turned on as it was supposed to. Japan is one of the most well-prepared countries in the world to deal with the threat of a tsunami.Warning systems are in place, and concrete sea walls wrap around much of the coastline. Japan earthquake: country better prepared than anyone for quakes and tsunamis No country on Earth is better prepared than Japan to deal with … The discussion mainly focuses on structural measures such as seawalls and breakwaters and non-structural measures of … With the amount Japan spend for its system, we don’t need. it will be good for the whole nation. Do you think most buildings in Pakistan can stand a 6. or 7. earthquake? Well brother we are in such location where we are not facing Japan types earthquakes. Millions of peopel doesn’t have a facility of clean drinking water. @Akhtar, All the government has to do is copy their STANDARDS and make sure all new buildings in Karachi or Lahore or Peshawar are against the new standards. Tsunami effects were felt as far the U.S and Hawaii coasts. Next you’ll tell us HAARP was responsible for Pakistan’s flooding. Japan faces up to failure of its earthquake preparations. The quake also triggered a 30 foot tsunami that flooded Japan’s coastline. Strategists have been analysing the economic impact of Japan's last major earthquake, in 1995 near Kobe, for clues. ? For this we have to Knock Nice article aamir bhai plz tell something about American department of defense’s High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program H.A.A.R.P …. @Author, You are right that our goverment must look into it. It is clear we were simply not prepared for it. Without research, they cannot increase 10 seconds to 10 minutes. There is no doubt that a lot of lives were saved due to Japans preparation. Every year, routine drills are carried out. At present no body care about all these issue in the world and in Pakistan. While sightseeing in Japan, international travelers had better be prepared for earthquakes, which are frequent in the country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEMl4PqJKLU. Now giving relief to nation, lets install Japan’s like system and makes dams. I am sorry to say that a country can’nt spend this much amount as there is nothing for poor peoples to eat. “The system sent out a warning to millions of people 10 seconds before the earthquake struck” – Do you really think it’s an effective time against such huge quake? What HAARP Project Manager himself is claiming is wrong ? Television channels immediately switch from normal programming to live coverage of the aftermath of a large quake. If any country is able to cope with an earthquake of this scale, it is Japan. (Image: © NASA Earth Observatory) VANCOUVER, British Columbia — In 2011, Japan was one of the most prepared countries in the world for a massive earthquake. have possibly been fully prepared for the cataclysmic disaster that was the Great East Japan Earthquake. By studying what happened in this Japanese event, we may better prepare for a disaster of similar scope in the Los Angeles area, and specifically here in the San Fernando Valley. Japan was well-prepared to react to earthquake – seismologist. Please log in again. if that was in Pakistan…. The warnings also go out to railway operators who slow down; to crane operators who move heavy machinery and building material away from people; and gas and electricity companies who immediately halt their activities. Also, think: if they spend $0 for an early warning system, no one will get a warning. very nice… but i think Pakistan is never gona implement it due to pathetic politicalities…. However, Japan may have been the best prepared for it. The great plates are rough and stick together, building up energy that is released as earthquakes. Kyodo/AP The sudden horizontal and vertical thrusting of the Pacific Plate, which has been slowly advancing under the Eurasian Plate near Japan, displaced the water above and spawned a series of highly destructive tsunami waves. But even as waves continue to breach the coast, it is already apparent that Japan's state of readiness has spared it from a far worse fate. Believe me, conspiracy theories. So, what do you think? Even so, had the earthquake not been so far off the coast of Japan, the damage to the country could have been even more severe, said Kanoa Koyanagi, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii. Modern buildings – and Japan's addiction to concrete means most tall buildings are very modern – are built with deep foundations, the most advanced supported by shock absorbers that allow the structure to move with the earth, rather than against it. East of Japan, the Pacific plate dives beneath the overriding Eurasian plate. But let me tell you one thing. (AP) -- Take the world's most earthquake-prepared country, jolt it with one of the biggest quakes in history and add a devastating tsunami minutes later. Mar 11, 2011 3:45 PM EST ... is probably the most prepared place in the world for a tsunami. but what about other issues we are currently faceing. Japan has over 120 million people. A lot of the early warning system cost is RESEARCH. Despite widespread damage resulting from the earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan Friday, authorities’ response was prompt and managed to avert a more serious course of disaster, says Dmitry Strochak from the International Seismological Center. The only “theories” about HAARP are conspiracy theories, Akhtar. @Shahid Saleem, Atleast you can do one thing is search on youtube videos showing what HAARP is and what HAARP Project Manager is claiming in one of these videos (that video is very much in detail) it can do before calling it a conspiracy theory. To ensure the safety of all passengers, the trains are equipped with earthquake sensors that are triggered to freeze every moving train in the country if necessary. 1 6 Lessons from the 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami for Canada’s Humanitarian Sector - September 2012 3. And you are talking about Dam’s they are necessary too. People who were further away, like those in Tokyo got a full 1 minute heads up. If any country is able to cope with an earthquake of this scale, it is Japan. But if we can spend this amount for DAM. The Japanese archipelago was rattled with shocks, Is it worth it to save so many lives? Every schoolchild knows what to do the moment the earth begins to shake: slip a padded cover on to their heads and duck beneath the nearest desk. A massive tsunami, generated by a powerful undersea earthquake, engulfing a residential area in Natori, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Honshu, Japan, on March 11, 2011. U.S. Preparedness for Catastrophic Nuclear Power Plant Accidents and the U.S. Capacity to Protect Children With Appropriate Availability of Potassium Iodide Dr. Irwin Redlener Washington, March 29, 2011 I join Congressman Edward Markey today to highlight my concerns on overall U.S. readiness for the possibility of a catastrophic nuclear power plant accident and to underscore the particular failure to protect children by appropriate availability of potassium iodide (KI) needed to prevent cancer in those w… Think of a mother who was able to safe her child due to this early warning by leaving her house in time …. If people had ten minutes or even an hours warning, it would not be enough, don’t you think? Anything above a magnitude eight under even a modern metropolitan city is going to be a major problem," Koyanagi said. Every day there is a disaster in Pakistan, Government itself is disaster…. I ask you, can we afford another flood? Don’t you understand? The earthquake lasted 6 … 309 billion $ will be the expenditure on reconstruction and 1 billion $ Warning System This article offers our top tips for preparing for any earthquakes, big or small. Other than building sanctions, Japan is also using technology and has employed a $ 1 billion early earthquake warning system which was launched in 2007. The casualty numbers currently stand at 8000 dead and over 12,000 missing. Syra Yousuf Looks Happy an…, ‘The Hazara Community is Blackmailing me,’ claims …, Revenge Porn with Fake Images Drove a Karachi Teen to Suicide, Heroes of the Pandemic: Keeping the Hussaini Tradition Alive, The Dire Need to Fight the Epidemic of Smoking, Dr. Fazeela Abbasi Reveals the Secret Behind Her Beautiful Ski…, Here’s How COVID-19 Has Impacted Everyone in Pakistan. Can we afford them? The 2011 Tohoku earthquake struck offshore of Japan, along a subduction zone where two of Earth's tectonic plates collide. But on Friday early reports suggested that the majority of deaths and injuries were caused by a huge tsunami that put the entire region on alert. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake off the Japanese coast in October was actually an aftershock of the 9.0-magnitude March 2011 earthquake, the Japan Meteorological Agency said at the time. People live in a constant state of readiness in a country that suffers a fifth of the world's most powerful earthquakes, Tokyo hotel workers after the earthquake in Japan. Japan issued a tsunami warning within three minutes back in 2011, but lacking that historical data, the authorities underestimated the size of the earthquake and thus failed to … Those who find themselves stranded on the upper floors of office or apartment buildings – as so many have done in Tokyo – know that their quake-resistant surroundings will sway violently, but probably stay upright. Japan's famed bullet trains slow to an automatic halt in the event of a large earthquake. Japan also enforces tough rules on building gas and water pipeline. The quake also triggered a 30 foot tsunami that flooded Japan’s coastline. As a country that accounts for a fifth of the world's most powerful earthquakes, Japan is in a constant state of readiness for the arrival of the "big one". The need for these measures and the effort Japan exerts is because Japan accounts for 20% of the worlds most powerful earthquakes. A big reason why the buildings didn’t crash down are because of BUILDING STANDARDS. Or can anyone (not even a scientist) tell me how sending RADIO WAVES to the HIGH ATMOSPHERE can cause EARTHQUAKES UNDER GROUND? It has to be desperate! I had lost three cousins in 2005 AJK earthquake because they were not able to get out of the room in time. If only 20,000 died or are missing, that’s 0.0167%. Published online 29 March 2011 | Nature 471, 556-557 (2011) | doi:10.1038/471556a . Can Any One Explain this A Japan has many earthquakes every year, but in Pakistan there is totally different situation. And this earthquake proved the money was well spent. LDA, CDA, etc already have standards, they just need to update them and enforce them. 1 These events were centered in areas affected by the 2011 triple disaster, yet the damage was fortunately limited with only 17 injuries and no deaths reported, without any recurrent accidents at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP). either its really exist or just rumors. It involves mounting the building at the ground level on large rubber blocks or sliding bearings, which allows the building to sway rather than act as a rigid structure which is much more prone to collapse. The epicentre was 43 miles east of Tohoku at a depth of 20 miles. While fires raged in Kobe after the city was rocked at 5.46am on 17 January, Japan's government was slow to accept help from US military forces based in the country and from overseas. yes WATER. Bring in mind the earthquake of 2005, and the chaos that ensued after it. These act as shock absorbers on a car. "Very fortunately it was a good distance offshore. For all its preparedness for earthquakes, there was next to nothing it could do to resist the power of the ocean. The government has been praised for its readiness via earthquake/tsunami drills, for the prompt organization of the National Self-Defense Forces, and for its preparedness to send in doctors and volunteers. Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011 - Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011 - Relief and rebuilding efforts: In the first hours after the earthquake, Japanese Prime Minister Kan Naoto moved to set up an emergency command centre in Tokyo, and a large number of rescue workers and some 100,000 members of the Japanese Self-Defense Force were rapidly mobilized to deal with the crisis. Because of a long history of frequent, sizable earthquakes, Japan was relatively well-prepared for the latest quake. It is too early to gauge the full extent of the devastation wreaked on the country's north-east coast by the earthquake and the huge tsunami that followed. Japanese children are told what to do in an earthquake from a very early age. Eleven nuclear reactors shut down automatically when the quake struck, although emergency teams were still struggling to restore the cooling system at the Fukushima No 1 power plant.   It was the fifth most powerful earthquake ever recorded, and within 30 minutes, a 133-foot high tsunami pummeled Japan's northeastern shoreline. The system sent out a warning to millions of people 10 seconds before the earthquake struck. but for Japan it is worth to save a life even if they have to spend more than that ….. Last year Chile spend more than 20M to rescue 33 miners …. At 5:59 am on 22 November 2016, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Fukushima, and resulted in tsunamis across the Eastern coast of Japan. In 2011, when a 9.0 magnitude quake hit Japan, there were 27 moving shinkansen in action. In a country always prepared for earthquakes, today's 8.9-magnitude temblor caught battle-hardened Japanese off guard. In the Shinkansen system's four-plus decades of whisking millions of people across Japan at high speed, it has yet to suffer a fatality. Yes i am agree with you where 43% of your earning spend on food items then who can think about infrastructure like Japan. Japan is one of the best tsunami-prepared countries in the world, which is one of the reasons the world is still reeling from the 2011 event. IMF Door, It’s required that our government take a look at the Japanese model and try to emulate it so that lives can be saved when the next disaster strikes. No one MAKING the videos is a scientist. The level of individual preparedness is mixed, but many households keep a basic earthquake survival kit of bottled water, dry rations, a first-aid kit and torches equipped with radios that broadcast regular updates. People who are at home when disaster strikes know, almost instinctively, to open the front door in case it is necessary to make a quick exit to open ground. The names of the affected areas are flashed on the screen, along with details of the quake's intensity in each area. How to Prepare for a Huge Earthquake in Japan. — Do you really think it’s an effective time against such huge quake? Despite the declaration of a state of emergency at one nuclear plant, the threat of a radiation leak is one that, so far, Japan appears to have avoided. The northeast coast of Japan was hit by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake on Friday, the 11th of March. we might have said, its not worth to save those miners :-(. Expecting aid to reach a major widespread disaster area within 3 days is optimistic, and survivors may have to exist on extremely limited resources for very much longer. Earthquake scale is log not linear: 7.4 quake is 100 times the strength of 7.2. On 11 March 2011, a massive 9.0 earthquake occurred off the Japanese coastline at 14:46. While confusion reigned on Friday evening as thousands of people in Tokyo made their way to ad hoc evacuation centres and designated muster areas, or began a long walk home, the atmosphere was one of concern rather than panic. ... Fri 11 Mar 2011 10.44 EST. The poor handling of the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake in 1995, in which 6,400 people died, not only prompted a rethink of building regulations but also of Japan's ability to launch a search and rescue effort. EPA/Franclk Robichon How scientists are helping Japan rebuild after the devastating 2011 tsunami March 11, 2016 10.32am EST Five years ago, a … On the 11th of March, 2011, one of the world’s most powerful earthquakes to date struck off the north-eastern coast of Japan. The most impressive coverage of Friday's earthquake came from Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, which can draw on bureaus nationwide for on-the-spot updates. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. Japan is one of the most prepared countries in the world for a disaster like this. Maybe five or six hours is enough time to evacuate everyone from the main disaster zone. Are we in such a condition to spend this much amount for disaster system. A map of Japan showing coastal areas subject to tsunami warnings is a constant presence in the corner of the screen. exuse me lazina if ur a paki then don’t say stupid pakis u dog Revisiting the modern histories of Tohoku tsunami disasters and pre-2011 tsunami countermeasures, we clarified how Japan's coastal communities have prepared for tsunamis. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 quake off shore caused a tsunami that triggered meltdowns at … with more strict restrictions. You are right brother. People say the same thing about dams. With more expensive electricity. I sit transfixed by the images coming this morning from northern Japan, where a devastating earthquake … News. After this what you have to prove that he is making false claims ? If that happened right under the city it would be a major problem. Would not be enough, don ’ t need when a 9.0 magnitude quake hit, in. Resist the power of the early warning system, we don ’ t need this http: //www.youtube.com/watch?.... 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