Waves measuring as much as 10 metres (33 feet) high struck the city of Sendai and other low-lying coastal regions of Miyagi prefecture, as well as coastal areas in the prefectures of Iwate, Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Chiba.
With two of my colleagues, we rent a car and begin the long journey through Tokyo's clogged traffic, then on to almost empty highways toward Iwaki city in Fukushima Prefecture, as close to the plant as we can get.
Chief among the pleasures on the menu are wild duck from the Nigata prefecture, as well as salmon and wild boar in season.
The vast rupture area of this event covered the rupture areas of several past large earthquakes (e.g., a M7.3 foreshock two days before, and the 1978 M7.5 and 2005 M7.0 earthquakes offshore from Miyagi prefecture), as well as a shallower zone that had previously been considered a stable aseismic zone.
In addition to this basic scheme, HCOV incorporates also a health promotion – preventive medicine medical team responsible for various health promotion and educational programs in schools and special social groups of its prefecture as well as a biostatistics office.
A long-term surveillance of stroke, comparing characteristics, risk factors and mortality, based on the entire population in a prefecture as large as Kyoto, which has about 2 630 000 residents, should provide a fundamental database for stroke.
There will be polls to pick governors in 12 prefectures as well as members for 44 (out of 47) prefectural governments, along with mayoral and local-assembly elections in over 2,000 towns and cities.
Meanwhile, Yamashita says support for the project is building among local governments and neighboring prefectures as well as among national politicians.
The river dikes and their related structures were damaged at 2115 sites throughout the Tohoku and Kanto areas, including Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Saitama Prefectures, as well as the Tokyo Metropolitan District.
The expansion of the city in 1932 made the city limits coincide with the prefectural boundaries in all directions but the west, where lay the "county part" of the prefecture, as distinguished from the "ward part".
