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The Great Sendai Earthquake and Great Thoku Earthquake, are significant natural disasters that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, respectively.

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The epicenter of the 2011 earthquake was around 80 miles (130 km) east of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.

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The subduction zone known as the Japan Trench, which divides the subducting Pacific Plate from the Eurasian Plate, ruptured, resulting in the earthquake.

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Over 120,000 structures were completely destroyed, 278,000 were demolished in half, and 726,000 were damaged.

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19,759

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The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami had a negative impact on the environment by contaminating groundwater (saltwater and other pollutants from the ocean seeped into the ground as a result of the tsunami), removing silt from coastal waterways (due to the force of the tsunami), and destroying coastal ecosystems.

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The magnitude-9.0 earthquake

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Iwate prefecture, just north of Miyagi prefecture, and Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Chiba.

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The "Triple Disaster" caused enormous economic damage: 138,000 structures were destroyed, and there were $360 billion in lost profits.