Event Date

March 11, 2011

• Maximum Wave Height
  128 feet recorded in the Iwate Prefecture

Notable Features

• Caused by: 9.0 Mw Earthquake
• Epicenter: 38.297°N, 142.372°E, 129 km (80 miles) E of Sendai, Honshu, Japan

Source(s)

• NOAA
• US Geological Survey

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Principal Area of Impact

Tohoku Region, Japan / Northeast Honshu Island

• Population Prior to the Event
  7.08 Million Estimated (Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures, 2010)

Previous Year's Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

5.495 Trillion USD (2010)

Previous Year's Gross Domestic Product Per Capita

43,118 USD (2010)

Source(s)

• Population and Households of Japan 2010, Statistics Bureau of Japan
• World Bank Group

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Governance

World Bank Group Indicator –
Regulatory Quality (Percentile Rank):
81.8 (2010)

World Bank Group Indicator -Government Effectiveness (Percentile Rank):
90.4 (2010)

World Bank Group Indicator –
Rule of Law (Percentile Rank):
88.2 (2010)

World Bank Group Indicator – Voice and Accountability (Percentile Rank):
80.1 (2010)

World Bank Group Indicator – Political Stability and Absence of Violence (Percentile Rank):
76.9 (2010)

Corruption

World Bank Group Indicator – Control of Corruption (Percentile Rank):
91.9 (2010)

Transparency International Corruption Perception Index Score:
7.8 (2010)

Transparency International Corruption Perception Index Rank:
17 out of 178 (2010)

Development

World Bank Group - GINI Index:
Not Available

Previous Year’s Human Development Index Score (HDI):
0.884 (2010)

Previous Year’s Human Development Index Rank (HDI):
11 out of 169

Source(s)

• World Bank Group
• Human Development Report 2010

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Total Affected Population

368,820

• Total Deaths
  19,846
• Injured
  5,933
• Homeless
  Not Available

Total Damage

$228.9 Billion (In 2015 USD)

Source(s)

• EM-DAT
• CPI Inflation Calculator

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