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.
It forms the major mountain system of Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, Shimane, Okayama, and Tottori ken (prefectures) and extends to the fault scarp of the Hira Range along Lake Biwa.
Iwakuni has grown into a major industrial city and is the centre of a petrochemical-producing region that extends northward to Ōtake, in Hiroshima prefecture.
Radiocaesium has been found in all of Japan's prefectures, but is most highly concentrated within an oblong swath that extends about 50km north-west of the plant, and to a lesser extent throughout eastern and central Fukushima Prefecture.
This is typical of the area which extends along the coastline north-east of the Prefecture.ffa.ffa
It parallels the Pacific Ocean coast and extends southward for about 155 miles (250 km) from southern Aomori prefecture, through Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, to terminate in the Oshika Peninsula.
Looking at the hypocenter distribution in perspective, it extends to the northeast direction and reaches to Oita Prefecture, crossing the Kyushu district (Fig. 1).
His 4-square-meter, or 43-square-foot, bathtub sits next to a creek, covered only by a roof that extends from the weekend home he recently built in Shizuoka Prefecture, west of Tokyo.
Even Mr. Hashimoto's brother, Daijiro, who is governor of Kochi prefecture, has refused to extend his support.
The 2011 tsunami deposit is up to 40 cm thick and extends up to 4.5 km inland on the Sendai Plain of Miyagi Prefecture (Goto et al. 2011; Takashimizu et al. 2012).
