{"id":11416,"date":"2011-04-02T16:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T15:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11416"},"modified":"2011-04-02T17:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T16:44:40","slug":"how-the-2011-japan-tsunami-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/02\/how-the-2011-japan-tsunami-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"How the 2011 Japan Tsunami Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11417\" title=\"Japan Tsunami Documentary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Japan-Tsunami-Documentary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This recent C4 documentary explores how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami\">the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami<\/a> happened.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DuRELrpytWI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some of the raw facts about the disaster are mind-boggling:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was the most powerful known earthquake ever to hit Japan, and one of the five most powerful in the world since modern records began in 1900.<\/li>\n<li>The amount of energy released by the earthquake was 2 million times that unleashed by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945<\/li>\n<li>The earthquake shifted the Earth on its axis by almost 10 cm (3.9 in).<\/li>\n<li>The cost of the disaster could reach $309 billion, making it the world&#8217;s most expensive natural disaster.<\/li>\n<li>The earthquake triggered tsunami waves of up to 97ft (29.6m)<\/li>\n<li>The waves struck inland minutes after the quake and some travelled up to 6 miles (10 km) inland.<\/li>\n<li>So far the official death toll is 11,828 and 15,540 people are still missing<\/li>\n<li>Over 125,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed.<\/li>\n<li>Japan suffered extensive structural damage with roads, railways and dams affected<\/li>\n<li>Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water.<\/li>\n<li>Many electrical generators went down, and at least three nuclear reactors suffered explosions due after cooling system failures.<\/li>\n<li>Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said: &#8220;In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can still donate to relief efforts.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/fvFbUB\">The British Red Cross<\/a> is collecting funds to support the Japanese Red Cross which is playing a leading role in the disaster response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/dOk8rq\">Save the Children<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/hM4LlA\">World Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/hcroAl\">Oxfam<\/a> are supporting the work of their colleagues in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in the US you can donate via the <a href=\"http:\/\/american.redcross.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&amp;s_src=RSG000000000&amp;s_subsrc=RCO_NewsArticle\">American Red Cross<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/japans-tsunami-how-it-happened\/4od#3175951\">Watch the documentary in better quality at Channel 4&#8217;s site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami\">More on the 2011 T\u014dhoku earthquake and tsunami<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; Coverage of the disaster at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-12307698\">BBC News<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/11\/video-of-the-earthquake-and-tsunami-in-japan\/\">New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/flash\/newsgraphics\/2011\/0311-japan-earthquake-map\/index.html\">Interactive map of the disaster<\/a> at the New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recent C4 documentary explores how the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,26],"tags":[1911,1909,1910],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}