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Mega-quake would likely flood more of Fukushima than 2011 tsunami

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Mar 21, 2019
This handout picture released by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on March 21, 2011, shows black smoke rising from reactor No. 3 of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after a mega-quake and tsunami knocked off the plant’s backup generators, triggering a triple meltdown crisis.
If a once-in-1,000-years earthquake occurs, the area of Fukushima Prefecture expected to be flooded by subsequent tsunami could be 1.3 times larger than at the time of the March 2011 disaster, the prefectural government said Wednesday.
If such a powerful earthquake takes place, tsunami of up to 22.4 meters high could hit the coast of Fukushima, and some 14,300 hectares of land in the prefecture could be inundated, according to a prefectural government estimate.
The prefectural government plans to call for 10 coastal municipalities to create hazard maps and review evacuation routes by the end of fiscal 2020.
Fukushima is the first of the three prefectures hardest hit by the 2011 disaster to work out such an estimate.
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/21/national/mega-quake-likely-flood-fukushima-2011-tsunami/?fbclid=IwAR3gjl6PCvnHL3O4WX0-DlWm1vzPIMtLBE-cvExJWgI-FJlo5UeI0mmDbLw

March 25, 2019 - Posted by | fukushima 2019 | , ,

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