Tohoku's Earthquake & Tsunami

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and wounded persons. This tsunami also pulled the nuclear accident of Fukushima placed at the level 7, the highest on the international scale of the nuclear events of the nuclear and radiological accidents.

III. Consequences

a) Nuclear disaster

The nuclear accident of Fukushima, also indicated as the disaster of Fukushima, is a major industrial accident which took place on March 11th, 2011 in Japan, following the earthquake and following the tsunami of 2011 of the Pacific Coast of Tohoku.

It is about a major nuclear accident classified at the level 7 of the international scale of the nuclear events.

This accident had diverse consequences worldwide on themes as the environment and the health in the world, the nuclear industry in the world or the nuclear industry in Japan.

Discontinued since the accident, the nuclear power plant of Fukushima Daiichi is announced to have to be dismantled on a duration estimated at forty years. Besides, the nuclear power plant of Fukushima Daini and the nuclear power plant of Onagawa also underwent some damage of much lesser scale following the earthquake.

b) Economy and the society

Thanks to the quality of the Japanese built constructions following the rules of the earthquake-resistant genius; it is the tsunami which followed which is originally more than 90 % of the human losses.

The mortality is due for 93 % to drownings consecutive to the passage of the tsunami.

We count after the disaster more of 20 000 dead and more than 6 000 missing persons.

According to an estimation of the ONU, the earthquake caused in 2011 the economic losses of the order of 210 billion dollars.