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=The 2011[| Earthquake in Japan]= In [|Japan], a terrible earthquake hit.[1] It occurred on March 11th, 2011.[1] It hit in the northern part of Japan in Fukishima.[1] The earthquake's power was an 8.9 magnitude and hit about 80 miles of the shore.[1] The earthquake and help from the tsunami got two nuclear power plants on fire and now one of them has a leak in it.[2]2,414 people have been found dead.[2] 10,000 people have been found dead in only three days .[3]15,000 is the number of people unaccounted for.[3] The number of Britons missing, presumed dead is 50.[3] 55,000 have evacuated from their homes since the quake struck on Friday, March 11th ] media type="custom" key="9110012" Retrieved from Greenpeace.org

[|Destruction] from the Earthquake
On the day that the earthquake occurred, rescuers found 200-300 dead bodies on the shore line in Sendai, Japan.[2] This earthquake has killed over 10,000 people.[4] The earthquake o bviously got two nuclear power plants on fire.[5] In Fukishima, Japan, People have to wear face masks or some kind of plaster protection because of the radiation.[2] The workers that work at the two nuclear power plants can't be any closer than 40 ft from the doors leading to the main systems of the two power plants because they could die or get seriously hurt from the radiation and the t oxic power of the nuclear power plant.[6] The two nuclear power plants have been spreading gassy liquid for 3 days now and is killing over 3,000 sea creature per 2 hours.[6]

Comparing This Earthquake to Others
The biggest earthquake in the U.S. was in Alaska. Its magnitude was 9.2. It was about 3 magnitude power stronger than the recent 2011 in Fukishima,Honshu,Japan.[6] The death toile in Japan was a little bit lower than the one in Alaska, but the earthquake in Japan 2011, has more people claimed missing than the one that happened in Alaska.[7] This image was retrieved from flickr.com

Where It Happened, How Big It Was, How it happened
This earthquake happened on March 11, 2011 on a Friday at 5:46 PM:23.[4] It was accounted on a scale 1-10 an 8.9 magnitude and was 19.9 miles wide.[4] The earthquake also effected a tsunami to hit and the people living or in Sendai are at a high risk of getting an aftershock of the earthquake because Sendai is the closest major city or spot in Japan to the epicenter.[2] This type of earthquake was when one tectonic plate goes under the other and the one on top flicks up and causes an earthquake.[8] Retrieved from flickr.com

Cause and Effects of the Disaster
The earthquake happened on Mar. 11th, 2011.[5] It caused a tsunami to occur and also made radiation appear into the air.[5] The tsunami got a lot of people sick, washed away, homeless, dead, or badly injured.[5] If you think about it, the earthquake caused that to happen.[6] This earthquake made a nuclear power plant catch on fire, and the [|earthquake] and the tsunami crack in the other power plant and is spilling radiation and gassy liquid not just in the atmosphere, but in that environment too.[5] Japan is a country that is a complex zone, where three major plates are.[1] Those three plates are the Pacific plate, the Okhotsk plate, and the [|Philippine] plate.[1] They are all hitting each other and that caused the earthquake to hit in Fukishima and parts of Sendai, Japan.[1] The west side of Japan is where a lot of earthquakes happen which is called the "Ring of Fire."[6] media type="custom" key="9096486"

The Destruction continues
An aftershock hit in Fukishima, Japan, and was a 7.1 magnitude.[5] It killed over 100 people and was 5 miles wide.[5] Rescuers have rescued over 3,000 people from the aftershock in Fukishima.[5] So far, there has been a total of 4 aftershocks in Fukishima, Japan and more will be coming.[5] The other 3 aftershocks have not been exactly accounted for on the scale for their magnitudes, but experts say that they are at a very high percentage of being over 4.6.[5] The 7.1 magnitude aftershock in Fukishima, Japan is one of the biggest aftershocks in world history.[6]