effect of earthquake on japanese industry

8/6/2019 Effect of Earthquake on Japanese Industry

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Effect Of Earthquake On Japanese

Industry


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Group Members

Tayyab Ali

Saad Ullah Younas

Adeel Rafiq


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Earthquake:

An earthquake(also known as a

quake, tremor or

temblor) is theresult of a sudden

release of energy

in the Earth's crust

that createsseismic waves.


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JAPAN

Japan is an island nation in East Asia . Located

in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the

Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea

and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk

in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan

in the south. The characters that make up

Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is whyJapan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of

the Rising Sun"


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Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The fourlargest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and

Shikoku, together accounting for ninety-seven percent

of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-

largest population, with over 127 million people. TheGreater Tokyo Area, is the largest metropolitan area

in the world, with over 30 million residents.

Geography:


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Industry:

Japan has three major industries:

1. Automobile

2. Electronics3. Food


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Recent Earthquake:

The most powerful earthquake

of 8.9 magnitude hit Japan in

at least 100 years unleashed

walls of water that sweptacross rice fields, engulfing

towns, dragging houses onto

highways and tossing cars and

boats like toys, apparentlykilling hundreds and forcing

the evacuations of tens of

thousands.


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Disasters due to earthquake


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Destruction made by the

EarthquakeAn estimated damage is of 180 billion dollars.

The quake and tsunami have killed at least 10,000

people.

Several explosions at a nuclear power plant north of

Tokyo.

Many cities of the costal region lost their identities.Damages to the automobile and electronics industry.


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Effect on the Industry:

We know that the Japan is the worlds biggest

manufacturers in the automobile industry . Due to

the recent earthquake there was a great problem

in manufacturing parts as many plants were

damaged and some were completely destroyed.

Which has made the manufacturers to shut their

plants for temporary bases.


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Damage to the nuclear power plant:

The earthquake and tsunami did a great destruction

in the nuclear power plant .

Gases were released which were dangerous for

health.

It was quite difficult to take control on the release o

gases

It increased the over all price of petroleum due to

the huge loss of fuel .


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Precautions from these gases:

Gaseous radiation is easily transported by the wind but,

other than iodine-131, it is not too dangerous since it

does not stay in the body. Fortunately iodine-131 has a 8

day half life so in 80 days it is essentially all gone, thus no

really environmental clean-up is required. On the other

hand, radioactive isotopes such as cesium-137 and

strontium - 90 have about 30 year half life, so if these are

released in quantity ( this has not happened a tfukushima) , then one needs to avoid areas that have

been contaminated by them


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Conclusion:

Japan has to work a lot to bring its position back

were it was and it is not possible without the

help of the global powers. We together should

help and work for the re-establishment of theland of the rising sun so that the people of the

japan can rise again as the sun rises from their

land.

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