Japan Earthquake and Tsunami aftermath 2011

Massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit the coast of Japan on Friday, March 11th 2011

-245 billions of dollars are used to reconstruct the buildings and other infrastructure.
-15,846 number of dead.
-3,320 people were still missing.
-2 missing people were found dead this year.
-16 million tons of disaster waste in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the hardest hit areas of Japan.
-about 2.4 millions of turists were dropped in 2011 from a year previously.
 -approximate months lost in the average life expectancy for a Japanese woman following the disasters, down from 86.4 years in 2010 to 85.9 in 2011.
-approximate months lost in the average life expectancy for a Japanese man, down from 79.5 years in 2010 to 79.27 in 2011.

A single pine tree that was left standing after the March 11th 2011 tsunami, which swept away an entire forest in the city of Rikuzentakata.

A ship washed away by the tsunami sits in a destroyed residential neighborhood in Kesennuma, northeastern Japan, pn March 28, 2011.

Cars destroyed by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, at a devastated area in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture.

ile up: cars had piled up in front of the airport control tower in Sendai on after the tsunami but has since been totally transformed

Before and after picture of tsunami hit area of Ofunato.

Students sit during their recreational activities session at Omika Elementary School, located about 21km (13 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, on March 8, 2012. The reopened elementary school, which is the nearest one located to the crippled nuclear power plant, had 205 students before the March 11th 2011 earthquake and tsunami. However, only 91 students remain following its reopening on October 17, 2011.

Resources:

Japan earthquake: One year later. (2012, March 9). Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/03/japan-earthquake-one-year-later/100260/

Tabuchi, H. (2012, March 9). New york times. Retrieved from http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/japan/index.html

See how japan has rebuilt in the 11 months since the earthquake and tsunami. (2012, Feb 9). Retrieved from http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/09/see-how-japan-has-rebuilt-in-the-11-months-since-the-earthquake-and-tsunami/

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2012, june 05). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tōhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami