'Life Is a Miracle,' but Learning From Disasters Isn't: Lessons From Japan's 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami

'Life is a miracle,' but learning from disasters isn't: Lessons from Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami

In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan a year earlier, in March 2011. Yokoyama lost his home and three family members.

In 2011, A 9.1 Magnitude Earthquake Caused 130 Foot High Tsunami Waves That Caused The Demise Of 20,000 People In Japan. Fifteen Years Later, We Finally Understand Why.

Pexels 11th March 2011 is a date that Japan will remember forever. That’s because, in the space of six minutes, the island nation experienced an earthquake so severe that it caused a tsunami of unexpected size and destruction. In total, the 9.1 magnitude Tōhoku earthquake and resulting tsunami caused the deaths of almost 20,000 people and a major accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. And now, after fifteen long years, we finally…