"2011 T\u014dhoku earthquake and tsunamisi"

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2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunamisi (Japanese: : Tōhoku Chihō Taiheiyō-oki Jishin), on 11 March 2011, the central base in the east of Oshika Peninsula in the Tōhoku region of Japan 72 km (45 miles) in the Pacific Ocean, the earthquake in 9,0 sizes. The earthquake lasted about 6 minutes led to tsunami, reaching up to 40.5 meters in some regions. Tsunami waves hit Hawaii islands of the United States, which is 500 km away from the clock. The earthquake in the depth of 29 km of the ground occurred at 1446 per local time. Japan was called the Great East Japan earthquake (sai, Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) as an official disaster.

As a result of earthquake and tsunami, 19759 people lost their life, 6,242 people were injured and 2.553 people disappeared. Afet leads to very large financial damage in the country. Black and railways have severe damage, fires appeared in various places and caused a dam to stay under the waters of the region. 4,4 million houses in northeast Japan were non-electrical, 1.5 million houses were thirsty and the result of earthquake food shortage occurred. According to the forecast of the Earth Bank, the economic cost of the earthquake was 235 billion US dollars.

The result of Tsunami Fukuşima I and Fukuşima II Nuclear Power Plant had to be evacuated from hundreds of thousands of people from the region, especially due to the melting of three reactors and the excretion of radioactive water in Fukuşima. The earthquake of the size of 9,0 has passed records as the largest earthquake in Japan. It was announced that the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake is among the first five earthquakes on the earth.

Earthquake
The earthquake, a submarine reverse fay earthquake with a size of 9,0, occurred in a depth of 32 km, with Japan time on 11 March 2011 (JSİ) clock 14.46 (05.46 UTC) in the western Pacific Ocean and relatively shallow. The earthquake, which is 72 km east of Oshika Peninsula in the Tōhoku region of Japan, lasted about six minutes. The largest city near the earthquake was Sendai, 130 km from Honshū island. Earthquake is 373 km away from Tokyo. Hundreds of artillery earthquakes have occurred before the earthquake. The first premise earthquake occurred on March 9, 7,2, 40 km from the ground where the main earthquake occurred. The three pioneer earthquakes lasted by 6,0 were 11 March. After Earthquake; 7,0 in 15.06 with JSİ time, 7,2 magnitude increment shocks occurred in 7,4 and JSİ 15.26 in 7,2 in 15:15. Since the main earthquake, the size of more than 800 artillery shock occurred on 4.5. Marcia McNutt, director of the United States Geology Research Institute (USGS) noted that articulating shocks followed by Omori law and they will continue for years and stay in time. Earthquake Early Warning System that contains more than thousand sismometers from Japan a minute ago warned millions of people to be a severe earthquake. Japan Meteorology Agency, b