Japan still faces the risk of super-earthquakes

A year after the tsunami earthquake, Japanese people in Tokyo still have to live in a sense of anxiety when scientists in the country recently issued a warning about the risk of an earthquake. strong intensity in the coming time.

The Greater Tokyo area is home to about 35 million people with the highest population in the world. According to scientists, since the earthquake of 9.0 magnitude on March 11 last year, an average of 1.5 aftershocks in this area. However, in the future a much larger earthquake is still waiting to happen.

Tokyo University's Earthquake Research Institute said that in the next four years, Tokyo will have about 50% of the risk of suffering an earthquake of magnitude greater than 7 Richter.

The numbers in Japan double disaster

"We need to be prepared to prevent the possibility of an earthquake," said Asahiko Taira, CEO of the Japanese government's Earth Science and Technology Research Agency .

According to research by experts, if an earthquake like the above forecast occurs, the affected area will be north of Tokyo Bay. The earthquake is projected to be around 7.3 richter, threatening the lives of tens of thousands of people living in that area.

If the earthquake occurred in Tokyo Bay on weekdays, particularly in the evening, there will be about 6,400 people killed, 160,000 injured, about 471,000 houses and buildings will be destroyed, mostly due to the a fire.

According to Japanese media, owners of luxury apartments outside Tokyo Bay are tending to move deep into the land to live and redesign the house in order to withstand strong earthquakes. .

Japan is home to about one-fifth of the annual earthquakes on Earth. In the past, earthquakes also destroyed the country's capital with the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923.

Dual earthquake disaster - tsunami in March last year in Japan claimed the lives of nearly 20,000 people, devastating many homes, production facilities and infrastructure. According to calculations by experts, the double disaster has caused more than 300 billion USD damage.