TOKYO — the sounds of weather — is today, but in the next 30 years.
70% chance of precipitation in the southern range, Tokyo around the year 2040 7.2 magnitude earthquake and a 90 percent chance, according to Ibaraki, close to the Japanese earthquake, the Agency for the promotion of the study.
8.0-the margin of dumping and likelihood of the quakes is 87%, Tokai area, about 100 nautical miles of the Latin America Tokyo, 70% of the automotive capital of the nearby Tonankai Nagoya and 60 percent of the massive amount of Nankai quake near 8.4 in the sprawling Osaka in Western Japan.
Three months after the 11. March 9-the dumping margin, the earthquake and tsunami, which killed at least 25,000 people, the leaders of Japan and the citizens are taking seriously the forecasts of the earthquake and revision of the disaster preparations.
6.7 Magnitude quake off northeastern Japan last week sent many tsunami survivors, heading back to the surface of the ground. It reminded people that the Japanese spelling of disaster may be over.
"The short answer is: no one knows when the next strike," said Satoko Oki of the University of Tokyo, is a seismologist. ".We must be prepared. "
Many Japanese fear repeat of what has happened in Indonesia after a 9.0 magnitude quake off Sumatra 26. started in Dec 2004 tsunami that killed more than 200,000 across the Indian Ocean.
Three months later, 28. March 2005-8.7 of the dumping margin, the quake the strongest ever recorded — one-hit Indonesia the same fault line, killing over a thousand people toppled buildings and debris covered.
Ms. Oki, as measured by the wave of the tsunami, according to a recent high of 120 feet with narrow cove in Japan, Northeastern, "sorry, we thought that Seismologists massive tsunami was like imagination," said.
"We looked at should be what happened in 2004, the Indian Ocean, and accept that it could happen in Japan as well."
Historians, at least the image of the tsunami has hit 195, in Japan, from the year 400 AD, including the last three killers: off Akita province in 1983; Okushiri, near Hokkaido in 1993; and March 11 in the northeastern region known as the tsunami is the Tohoku Japan.
The history of Japan is perhaps the more detailed information about the online mode previously, and the potential disasters than other Nations.
Promoting the study of the earthquake, the Agency's Web site features detailed maps and charts about the major quakes in different areas of probability. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the site offers the earthquake and tsunami, Japan, England, precautions, and China.
When quakes strike, TV networks broadcast information immediately with the strength, depth and location of the temblors. Many of the coastal regions of Japan Meteorological Agency, go to the action of the Web site, which is a simple map, where the tsunami warnings.
High-rise office buildings swayed as the grass is wind and many of the more fiercely shook homes in three minutes, although Tokyo has escaped the heavy damage to the 11. in March, the largest ever recorded in a quake in Japan.
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