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After the Deluge: Tsunami and the Great Wall of Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

David McNeill  and
Justin McCurry
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Like hundreds of communities along Japan's northeast coast, the village of Koizumi exists on maps only. On 11 March 2011, a M9.0 earthquake beneath the Pacific Ocean erupted with the force of a million tons of TNT, triggering towering waves that killed around 19,000 people. In Koizumi, 40 of the 1,800 villagers died.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 30 , July 2014 , e1
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