Chapter 426: The Great Earthquake

He went to the headquarters of Weekly Wenchun, but he didn't get what he wanted. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info and ...... Several young members of AKB48 and several directors within AKS have been co-opted by him. I heard that Mr. Akimoto is already preparing to train members of the next generation. Uesugi Sado.

Zhu Zi knocked lightly on the table.

"Go on. ”

"These members are mainly members of the ninth phase and SKE48. ”

"It's a girl named Haruka Shimazaki and that girl named Matsui Jurina, right?"

"The president is wise, and there is a member named Yokoyama Yui who has now become a member of his side. By the way, there is also the news that he recently took a stake in TEPCO and became the head of the Fukushima nuclear power plant. ”

"I'm afraid those girls don't know about it, right? Sometimes it's really dangerous to be on the wrong side. Leave Sony's side alone, and give me the list of AKS deacons. Zhu Zi said lightly.

"Yes, President. ”

"The Fukushima nuclear power plant is interesting, it's really interesting. When Uesugi left, Teng Chong had a smile on his face.

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March 11, 5 a.m.

When Zhu Zi was sleeping soundly, he suddenly felt a shaking of the mountains.

Zhu Zi immediately got up from the bed.

The expected earthquake came.

This earthquake triggered a strong tsunami that led to a huge tsunami in the Tohoku, Kanto, and Hokkaido regions, with a tsunami of more than 3 meters in most areas, a giant tsunami of more than 10 meters in parts of Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures along the coast of the Tohoku region, and even a tsunami of more than 15 meters in some areas, with a maximum tsunami height of 40.1 meters.

The tsunami caused heavy losses in the coastal areas of Tohoku, and the area along the coast of Sendai, which was closest to the epicenter, was flooded due to the tsunami, and several towns along the line from Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture to Ofunato in Iwate Prefecture with a broken coastline were affected by the tsunami height pushed up by the narrow bay, and most of the buildings were destroyed, especially in Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was hit by a 14-15 meter high tsunami in the tsunami, and although the emergency system monitored the emergency shutdown procedures for units 1, 2 and 3 that were in operation after the earthquake, the subsequent tsunami damaged the emergency diesel generators, causing the reactor to overheat, causing the core meltdown of units 1, 2 and 3。 But due to the excess of nuclear radiation, the crew had to urgently evacuate from their jobs. On 20 March, the emergency repair of the severed power grid was completed, and the automatic cooling system was restarted.

On March 12, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano issued an emergency evacuation directive, asking residents within 10 kilometers of the Fukushima nuclear power plant to evacuate immediately to avoid the effects of nuclear radiation, and after the first evacuation of about 45,000 people, Edano announced that the evacuation radius would be expanded to 20 kilometers.

Since then, all six boiling water reactor units at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant have been scrapped, resulting in a severe power gap in the region, which has not been able to be filled even though the Oime Power Plant has returned to service. The Japanese government has begun to extend the rolling blackouts.

The earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean east of Miyagi Prefecture, and it was undoubtedly the hardest-hit area in Japan. The eastern Pacific coast of Japan has been severely affected.

The Otsuma Town Hall was severely damaged by the tsunami (Omashi Town, Shimoshoi County, Iwate Prefecture, April 4, 2011).

Because Iwate Prefecture has an unusually narrow coastal plain due to its dense mountainous area, it has only 56 square kilometers of tsunami flooding, which is the least of the three prefectures most affected (Miyagi, Fukushima, and Iwate), but because the fishing ports are concentrated in this area and the tsunami spreads easily to the plains, the population density of the flooded area is the largest among the three prefectures (about 1,900 people/square kilometer) []. Iwate Prefecture has a special topography that often struck the prefecture with tsunamis, and the effects of the tsunami are still visible today.

Therefore, the residents of the area have a high awareness of tsunami prevention, and the Japanese government has built a lot of breakwaters in the area, so when the earthquake occurred, most residents quickly ran to the mountains or shelters, but because the intensity of the tsunami and the time were higher than expected, there were still many casualties in the area.

In Rikuzentakata City, the tsunami was so severe that many people died in government-designated evacuation shelters, with water reaching the ceiling of buildings such as the Civic Center and Civic Gym, and 27 people drowned in the four-story Rikuzentakata Hospital. Nearly 1,600 people died in the entire city of Rikuzentakata.

In the town of Ogashi, 30 of the approximately 60 employees at the town hall died, including then-mayor Hiroki Kato, who also caused a fire due to the tsunami.

Half of the people in the Urindo area of Kamaishi City died. Masafumi Sano, a member of the Nippon Steel Kamaishi rugby team and captain of the Kamaishi City rugby team, was killed in the tsunami, while 104-year-old Takashi Shimokawahara, the world record holder for athletic land, was also killed in the tsunami.

However, in the Higashi-Naka area of Kamaishi City, 600 elementary school students quickly gathered after the earthquake, and after the roll call was confirmed, all of them quickly moved to a shelter located on nearby high ground, followed by a group of junior high school students. In the end, the first floor of their school was swallowed by a tsunami more than 10 meters high, but none of the more than 600 primary school students were injured.

In the Taro area of Miyako City, there is a 10-meter-high, X-shaped giant breakwater, but it was destroyed in the tsunami, killing more than 685 people in the area.

In Ofunato City, 417 people died, and more than 400 elderly people died in the Sanrikuen special nursing home alone.

In addition to this, some villages in Tanohata and Noda were severely damaged.

Miyagi Prefecture was the closest prefecture to the epicenter, and it was also the one that was the hardest hit. The entire prefecture was flooded with an area of 327 square kilometers, the largest of the three hardest-hit prefectures, nearly six times larger than Iwate Prefecture, and Miyagi Prefecture alone affected more people than the Great Hanshin Earthquake combined. In the north-central part of Miyagi Prefecture, the government has built many breakwaters due to the fragmented coastline and the fact that it is also vulnerable to tsunamis.

When the earthquake struck, most residents took refuge in evacuation shelters or ran to high ground, but the tsunami was more powerful and faster than expected, resulting in heavy casualties.

The coastline of south-central Miyagi Prefecture is single, but when the tsunami moved to Sendai, where the water depth is shallow, the tsunami slowed down and was lifted by the terrain, and because the speed decreased, the tsunami did not arrive until 1 hour later, because the last time the area was hit by a violent tsunami was hundreds of years ago, resulting in a low awareness of disaster preparedness among the residents of the area, and the tsunami penetrated deep into the interior within several kilometers through the plain terrain, causing serious damage.