Magnitude 9 earthquake, 30-meter tsunami could hit northern Japan, says government panel
A Japanese authorities panel on Tuesday (April 21) warned that tsunami as excessive as 30 meters might hit Hokkaido in northern a part of the nation and Iwate within the northeast if a magnitude 9 earthquake happens alongside sea trenches off the Pacific coast of Japan.
The panel issued the warning primarily based on a worst-case situation and expressed worry {that a} earthquake centered across the Japan Trench and the Kuril Trench off northern elements of the nation might be “imminent.”
It is to be famous that the panel admitted that it isn’t straightforward to calculate the likelihood of the occurence of such an earthquake however pressured that the area has witnessed large tsunami each 300 to 400 years and the final one was noticed within the 17th century.
The Japan Trench extends from waters off the coast of Hokkaido to the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo. The Kuril Trench stretches from the ocean off Tokachi on the northernmost major island of Japan to the Kuril Islands in Far East close to Russia.
In 2011, Japan was hit by a magnitude 9.zero earthquake and subsequent tsunami which precipitated the demise of over 15,000 folks within the nation, largely in northeastern a part of the nation. The authorities panel has predicted that the earthquakes in future could be centered round waters off Sanriku and Hidaka in addition to the ocean off Tokachi and Nemuro.
Seismologist Kenji Satake, a University of Tokyo professor and head of the panel, instructed Japan Times {that a} large earthquake and tsunami would undoubtedly hit the area.
“A massive earthquake of this class (shown in the simulation) would be difficult to deal with by developing hard infrastructure (such as coast levees). To save people’s lives, the basic policy would be evacuation,” Satake stated.
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