Although the provisional death toll of 25 000 is one-tenth that of both the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in 2004 and the Haiti earthquake last year, the tragedy has deeply traumatized the population.
The effects of the 2011 tsunami in Japan were felt across the Pacific Ocean to earthquake-prone California, which shares the same tectonic plate.
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Minutes after the earthquake, Indian Ocean Regional Tsunami Service Providers of Australia, India and Indonesia issued bulletins with detailed information and threat evaluations.
Trading was tentative Wednesday morning as the market place digested news out of the Indian Ocean region, where a major earthquake occurred near Indonesia overnight.
The earthquake occurred some 25 miles below the ocean floor and resulted in a tsunami warning for the coast of Miyagi prefecture.
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UNESCO-IOC established the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System following the 2004 earthquake and tsunami off the shores of Indonesia that took the lives of over 200, 000 people.
Tokyo Electric has been using colored powder to trace the source of highly radioactive water leaking into the ocean near Fukushima, which was damaged by an earthquake and tsunami last month.
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The Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System functioned effectively during the magnitude 7.7 earthquake and tsunami.
Sanny Jegillos, program coordinator for the UNDP's regional center in Bangkok, rates the Indian Ocean early tsunami warning systems as superior to those of the Pacific in terms of earthquake monitoring and detection.
The fear is that it turns out to be the worst natural disaster since the Kashmir earthquake of 2005, when 86, 000 died, or even the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 that killed 230, 000.
Exercise IOWave11 re-enacted the 26 December 2004 earthquake event, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami.
The scenario established for the "Exercise IOWAVE 11" re-enacts the events of 26 December 2004, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami.
The sinking of the Ryou-Un Maru brought about the end of a journey for the rust-stained ship that drifted across the Pacific Ocean as part of a giant debris field generated by a tsunami that struck Japan following a 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011.
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