Japan earthquake facts
• Japan,is located along the “circle of fire” arc of volcanoes and sea ditches that partly surrounds the Pacific Basin, accounts for almost twenty pct of the earths quakes of magnitude six or bigger.
• A earth tremor happens in Japan at the least every five minutes, and every year there are up to 2,000 earthquakes that can be sensed by inhabit.
• The Great Kanto earthquake of September 1, 1923, which had a order of magnitude of 7.9, killed more than one hundred forty,000 people in the Japanese capital area. Seismologists have told another such earthquake could smash the city at any time.
• Jan 16, 1995, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 smash central Japanese Islands, crushing the western port urban center of Kobe. It was the most intense quake to strike Japanese Islands in fifty years, killing more than 6,400 and causing an estimated $100 billion in damage.
• Oct twenty-three, 2004, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake affected the Niigata area, about 250 km in the north of Japanese capital, killing sixty-five citizenry and hurting 3,000.
• March 25, 2007, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake affected the Noto peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, approximately three hundred km west of Japanese capital, killing one-man, wounding additional 200 and destructing hundreds of houses.
• The Tokyo-Yokohama area, with a population of 35 million, bears the highest evaluation by earthy disasters such as quakes of any of the world’s 30 “megacities”, the report stated.
