Which places in Japan suffered the worst tsunamis?

Which places in Japan suffered the worst tsunamis?

List of cities and towns severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

City	Region	Country
Ishikawa	Fukushima Prefecture	Japan
Ishinomaki	Miyagi Prefecture	Japan
Iwaizumi	Iwate Prefecture	Japan
Iwaki	Fukushima Prefecture	Japan

What was the deadliest tsunami in Japan?

2011 Great East Japan earthquake
The damage makes the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami the most expensive natural disaster in historyIn Japan, the event resulted in the total destruction of more than 123,000 houses and damage to almost a million more. Ninety-eight percent of the damage was attributed to the tsunami.

What places did the Tohoku tsunami hit?

20 minutes after the earthquake, tsunami waves as tall as 40 meters struck the coasts of Iwate prefecture, just north of Miyagi prefecture, and 1 hour later it hit Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Chiba, the prefectures extending along the Pacific coast south of Miyagi.

What areas of Japan were affected by the tsunami?

The tsunami affected a 2000-kilometer stretch of coast and inundated more than 400 square kilometers of land in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures. Some of the worst devastation was observed at Rikuzentakata (Iwate).

What cities are most affected by tsunamis?

1) Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan Japan is also the country most exposed to tsunami risk, as the country’s urban centres are dotted with an almost perverse accuracy along the Ring of Fire, the active faults of the western Pacific.

Did the 2011 tsunami affect Tokyo?

The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six minutes, causing a tsunami….2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

東北地方太平洋沖地震東日本大震災
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UTC time	2011-03-11 05:46:24
ISC event	16461282
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