Kizuna 2 - Day 1 pt 2, Great East Japan Earthquake Lectures

We ate American/Japanese breakfast at hotel. Then we went to listene to the speeches by the officer from U.S embassy andJ. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. 

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        The belwo is items that we learned through lecture about Rehabilitation and Recovery from the Great East Japan Earth quake by Prof. Kikuchi


23 things that we learned from the Lectures on the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011:
1.    321,000 people still in temporary shelters (Four)

2.    The highest wave of the tsunami was 40 meters high (Neuse)

3.    As of Feb 14, 2012, there were 3213 people who were washed away by the tsunami and never found (Samantha)

4.    The reason reactor went into meltdown was that the emergency fuel was underground. (Noah)

5.    The earthquake was the 4^th worst recorded with a magnitude of 9.0. (Malaya)

6.    The U.S helped out the most out of all foreign countries. (Elisabeth)

7.    There was a snowstorm the day after the earthquake making rescue efforts more difficult. (Sam)

8.    The Japanese SDF (Self Defense Force) was delayed due to the amount of time it took to reply dispatch orders. They couldn’t go until they were given official instruction. (Megan)

9.    After the events on March 11^th trust in the local government increased, whereas trust in the national government gradually decreased. (Leah Horvath)

10.                  Most of the victims were 60  or older. (Nathan Bryans)

11.                  The tsunami was 131ft tall and about power it held. (Tyge)

12.                  Nearby 30,000 buildings collapsed in Sendai during earthquake. (Grant)

13.                  The diesel generator layout at the nuclear reactor was designed by the American company GE. GE has designed their layouts according to the United States’ main natural threat: tornadoes. Therefore, GE designs have the diesel generators in the basement. However when they did the layout of FUKUSHIMA-DAIICHI, they didn’t change the layout for Japan’ main threat: tsunamis. Therefore the basement was flooded and back-up generators failed.  (Kai)

14.                  Over 43 different nations responded with organized rescue teams, and the US launched rescue operation TOMODACHI (Friend). This, along with the Japanese people’s incredible sense of unity, was a large contributor to their speedy recovery. (Owen)

15.                  2 seconds after the earthquake, all Shinkansen bullet trains automatically halted electric power and operated emergency brakes. This was 70 seconds before the biggest tremor. Because of this, nobody on the bullet trains were hurt. (Matteen)

16.                  131 ft waves of tsunami (Sydney)

17.                  Rescue squad from Osaka came from 1000 km away to help. (Alex )

18.                  Japan’s tourism is still recovering from the tsunami, and its conflict with China over some islands in the Pacific Ocean is affecting it in a negative way. (Aiyzah)

19.                  325,000 still in temporary Shelters (Sheyengphia)

20.                  65% of the victims were over 65 years old. (Leah Nelson)

21.                  Earthquakes occur in Japan every 2 seconds. (Victor)

22.                  Since the quake, Japan only has one active nuclear reactor (Raymond)

23.                  There was another major earthquake in 1995 as well. (Nathan)