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Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

  • THE BEGINING DUN DUN DUNNN

    at 10 am, an earthquake on a richter scare of 8.9 hit Sendai, Japan, after braking the sea floor in the pacific
  • the drift to japan

    the tsunami drifted from the break in the pacific and traveled west gaining momentum to hit japan with a massive impact. this is when japans tsunami evacuation alarms set off.
  • TSUNAMI HITS

    time after people were evacuated the tsunami hit. later on to find that 16,000 confirmed deaths and 2,600 missing.
  • everyone else

    US: 11am tsunami waves hit california
    hawaii: 7am the waves hit
    philippines: after word of tsumani they imediately sounded the alarms waves came with in hours
  • AFTERSHOCK

    there were more than 50 aftershocks in the days following, two of the most significant were on the 7th and 11th of april.
  • Period: to

    MARCH 11TH 2011

  • nuclear plant explosion

    on the 12th of march 2011, at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant exploded
  • unit three reactor

    two days after the plant set off the 3rd reactor exploded
  • MORE EXPLODING

    the second reactor explodes causing more dangerous levels of radiation.