Earthquake
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.
Tsunami
A tsunami also called a tsunami wave train, and at one time incorrectly referred to as a tidal wave, is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, usually an ocean, though it can occur in large lakes.
Tornado
A tornado (often referred to as a twister or, erroneously, a cyclone) is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
Floods
A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water
Volcanic Eruptions
Volcanoes can cause widespread destruction and consequent disaster through several ways. The effects include the volcanic eruption itself that may cause harm following the explosion of the volcano or the fall of rock.
Casualties of Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami
7:21 AM
Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) has confirmed approximately 400 dead and approximately 700 missing in six different prefectures (also reported as over 1100 dead/missing combined). Later confirmed deaths were 503 with: one in Hokkaido, three in Aomori, 221 in Iwate, 129 in Miyagi, one in Yamagata, 115 in Fukushima, four in Tokyo, 13 in Ibaraki, three in Tochigi, one in Gunma, ten in Chiba, three in Kanagawa and a police estimate of 200–300 in an inaccessible coastal part near Sendai City in Miyagi. Reports of missing persons suggested 740 were unaccounted for and that 1,040 were injured.
Officials in Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai, which was heavily damaged by tsunami waves, stated that they had found the bodies of 200–300 victims.
By 09:30 March 11 UTC, Google Person Finder, which was previously used in the Haitian, Chilean, and Christchurch earthquakes, was collecting information about survivors and their locations.] The Next of Kin Registry NOKR is assisting the Japanese government to locate next of kin for those missing or deceased.
It was reported that four passenger trains containing an unknown number of passengers disappeared in a coastal area during the tsunami. Two of the trains were on the Senseki Line. One of the Senseki Line trains was found derailed in the morning, and all passengers were rescued by a prefectural police helicopter.
One man was killed in Papua, Indonesia after being swept out to sea. A 25-year-old man who was taking pictures of the tsunami waves in coastal Del Norte County, California was also swept out to sea and confirmed dead.
