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Thursday, 05 May 2011 00:00 |
Presentation by Rick Wright
The Great East Japan Earthquake on 3.11.11 was one of the largest ever recorded. Twice as much energy was released as the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and was dissipated as ground shaking which lasted more than 30-minutes, and tsunamic energy with waves recorded as high as 124-ft. This presentation provides an engineering perspective of this massive earthquake which may have killed as many as 25,000, damaged more than 125,000 buildings, including nuclear power plants, and may have caused as much as 35 billion dollars in damage.
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