Roughly 6 years ago, 2011 an earth moving quake hit Japan, a tremendous tsunami was triggered and numerous were injured died. What was responsible you may ask? The Pacific Ocean and the North American tectonic plate. A massive amount of energy had been stored for many years and after awhile it needed to be released, as an earthquake. As a result of that earthquake, ocean water was displaced and that created a tsunami. There were many consequences to the disaster. Later on you will find out how flooding and destruction left people homeless, how the government struggled with money, and how most people died from drowning.
A huge reason that the tsunami was such a big deal was the flooding. In Sendai, Japan there was a elevation drop from the coast, which means the coast is higher than the main land. What this caused was that the water couldn’t drain out into the sea, it had to soak into the ground and that took many days so consequently there were many buildings had water damage than if it drained back to the sea. Many things were unsalvageable. Evidence to support my claim is “This green line is higher-elevation land that is above water,
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The total amount to rebuild was $360 billion to rebuild. To make matters worse Japan was a country that was already in debt at the time. Evidence to support my claim is “First, it destroyed 138,000 buildings and cost $360 billion in economic damage. That’s more than the $250 billion cost estimate for Hurricane Katrina...But the long-term impact was harmful to the country's struggling economy. Rebuilding lifted the economy a bit. But it was outweighed by the increase in the national debt.”(Kimberly Amadeo,Japan's 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster) This supports my claim by proving that japan was already in debt. But when the tsunami and earthquake hit it only made matters worse for the