8. 3. Fukushima kwamata Ono Evacuation Area Fukushima Dai-ichi Fukushima Dai-ni Naraha Tomioka Okuma Futaba Namie Minami Soma Kawauchi Tamura Katsurao Iidate Hirono Deliberate Evacuation Area Evacuation Prepared Area in case of Emergency Evacuation Prepared Area in case of Emergency
http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/2011_Earthquake/2011_Earthquake_Intensity.pdf Tokyo public transportation shut down Fires- oil refinery Haneda and Narita shut down
http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/2011_Earthquake/2011_Earthquake_Intensity.pdf http://japanecho.net/311-data/1205/ Tsunami reached coastline of nearest area in ~30 minutes Waves reached 133 feet in Miyako 217 square miles were affected 420 miles of coastline were affected 15,000 dead 4000 missing and 6000 injjured 25 million tons rubble Although Japan has invested the equivalent of billions of dollars on anti-tsunami seawalls which line at least 40% of its 34,751 km (21,593 mi) coastline and stand up to 12 m (39 ft) high, the tsunami simply washed over the top of some seawalls, collapsing some in the process. 178 42% heeded warning 45700 buildings destroyed and 1445000 damaged
Dai Ichi H20 inject stopped for 14 hours Dai Ni 6.5 hours Dai san 6. 43 Fuel exposed and core melted 78000 evacuated plus 10,000 Another 59000 live in yellow zone- around 29000 left
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011 TOKYO- (PANORIENT NEWS) JAPAN’S ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY SAID THAT MORE THAN 80% OF THE RUBBLE FROM THE MARCH 11 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI HAS BEEN REMOVED IN MIYAGI AND FUKUSHIMA, MIYAGI AND IWATE PREFECTURES. EXCLUDING DEBRIS FROM DISMANTLED HOUSES, THE RATE OF RUBBLE REMOVAL STOOD AT 87% FOR IWATE, 94% FOR MIYAGI AND 43% FOR FUKUSHIMA, WHERE EFFORTS ARE BEING DELAYED BY RADIATION LEAKS FROM A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. Japan’s transportation ministry announced that Sendai Airport will partially reopen its runways to domestic commercial flights from April 13, with the two carriers Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) similarly announcing that they will resume daily round-trip services from Wednesday next week. number of evacuees peaked at more than 475,000 on March 14
31.6 percent of population is expected to be over 65 in Tohoku. National average is 29.6% Working population shrunk 8.4% over the last 15 years