Earthquakes

Why Japan Has Earthquakes

• Tectonic plates lie along Japan
• Pacific Plate, Okhotsk Plate, Yangtze Plate, & Philippine Plate
• Earthquakes happen when plates slip past eachother

How Japan Prepares

• Earthquake drills
• Alarms sound
• Earthquake simulations

Technology/Preperation

• Allow for brief warnings
• Over 1,000 seismographs

Most Recent Earthquake

• March 3, 2014
• Doesn't have a name
• 4.6 magnitude & 104 km depth
• Happened in Misawa, Aomori, Japan

Worst Earthquake in Japan

• March 11, 2011
• Magnitude of 9.0
• The quake triggered a tsunami 
• Killed estimated 29,000 people
• Tohoku is the name