to the rescue

this story is about a tsunami that happen 7 years ago,on 11 march 2011.

on 14:46,on the north-east coast near the honsho island,biggest island in japan,an earthquake occurred 29 km underneath the water depth at a scale of 8.9 and then raised to 9,it was the biggest earthquake ever recorded in japan.

the earthquake triggered a powerful tsunami waves that reached up to 40.5 meters(133 ft) and traveled up to 10 km inland.

the earthquake moved the honsho island 2.4 m (8 ft) east,shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in) and increased earth’s rational speed by 1.8 microseconds per day.

The latest report from the Japanese National Police Agency report confirms 15,895 deaths,6,156 injured, and 2,539 people missing

A March 2018 agency report listed 121,776 buildings totally collapsed, with a further 280,923 buildings “half collapsed”, and another 726,574 buildings partially damaged.The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse.Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, “In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan.”Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water.

The tsunami caused nuclear accidents, primarily the level 7 meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex, and the associated evacuation zones affecting hundreds of thousands of residents.Many electrical generators were taken down, and at least three nuclear reactors suffered explosions due to hydrogen gas that had built up within their outer containment buildings after cooling system failure resulting from the loss of electrical power. Residents within a 20 km (12 mi) radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and a 10 km (6.2 mi) radius of the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant were evacuated.

Early estimates placed insured losses from the earthquake alone at US$14.5 to $34.6 billion. The Bank of Japan offered  US$183 billion to the banking system on 14 March in an effort to normalize market conditions. The World Bank’s estimated economic cost was US$235 billion, making it the costliest natural disaster in history.