Damaging tsunami waves struck the coasts of Iwate prefecture, just north of Miyagi prefecture, and Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Chiba, the prefectures extending along the Pacific coast south of Miyagi.
The large and damaging tsunami that was generated was out of proportion relative to the size of the event, based on its short-period body wave magnitude.
The magnitude 9.1 Indonesia earthquake in 2004 and magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile in 2010, which both produced damaging tsunami, occurred around the time of a full moon, close to the peak time of tidal stress, the study said.
Because of the severity and wide extent of the tsunami damage, tsunami field surveys are still ongoing.
Cover image: A man searches for things at a house damaged by tsunami in Labuhan, Banten province in Java on Dec. 24, 2018.
In coastal SMAs, which were greatly damaged by tsunamis, the ratio of total nursing staff per population greatly decreased immediately after the GEJE, as indicated previously [ 2- 5].
Displacements of the adjacent seabed generated gigantic tsunami waves damaging countless coastal communities around the Tohoku region.
Displacement of the adjacent seabed generated gigantic tsunami waves damaging many coastal communities around the Tohoku area.
BUN, blood urea nitrogen; SD, standard deviation; Hanawa, Hanawa Welfare Hospital, not seriously damaged by the tsunami and far from the nuclear power plant accident; Soma, Soma Central Hospital, seriously damaged by the tsunami and near the nuclear power plant accident; c.c., correlation coefficient; DW, dry weight; b, standard partial regression coefficient; * p<0.05.
Hct, hematocrit; SD, standard deviation; Hanawa, Hanawa Welfare Hospital, not seriously damaged by the tsunami and far from the nuclear power plant accident; Soma, Soma Central Hospital, seriously damaged by the tsunami and near the nuclear power plant accident; c.c., correlation coefficient; DW, dry weight; b, standard partial regression coefficient; * p<0.05.
Last year fishing facilities were damaged by a tsunami caused by a strong quake in Chile.
