Kamaishi, Iwate
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Kamaishi is a city located on the Sanriku rias coast in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2020, the city had an estimated population of 32,609, and a population density of 74 persons per km2, in
Kamaishi City Hall, May 2013
A devastating earthquake and tsunami affected Kamaishi in March 1933
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46:24 JST, a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region of Japan. It lasted approximately
Kamaishi, Iwate
…30, 2010, Foreign Policy magazine used Kamaishi as an example of Japan's relative decline in the Lost Decade. Kamaishi was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, in which 1,250 city residents were killed or are missing; at least 4 of the town's 69 designated evacuation sites and three of the town's 14 schools…
A helicopter flies over the port of Sendai to deliver food to survivors.
2011 Japan shakemap
A seismogram recorded in Massachusetts, United States
Soil liquefaction in Kōtō, Tokyo