The 2011 Japan’s earthquake and tsunami was a 9.0-magnitude earthquake followed by tsunami waves. It was measured at 8.4 on the JMA seismic intensity scale. The earthquake happened 130 kilometres, on the east coast of the Japan, on March 11, 2011. It was at a depth of 24.4 km (15.2 miles).It was measured as 8.9 on the Moment magnitude scale, by the United States Geological Survey, but later upgraded to 9.0. This makes it the largest earthquake to hit Japan in recorded history. It is also the seventh biggest earthquake in the world since records have been kept. Hundreds of flights to Japan were cancelled due to the earthquake and tsunami, affecting many people.

The earthquake and tsunami, which killed as many as 20,000 people, led to soul searching in a nation already worn down by two lost decades of economic growth, a rapidly aging and now shrinking population, political paralysis and the rapid rise of its long time rival, China.When the earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, it churned up a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland in the northern part of the country and prompted warnings as far away as the West Coast of the United States and South America. Recorded at 9.0 on the Richter scale, it was the most powerful quake ever to hit the country.

A film screening of a documentary about the March 2011 tsunami and earthquake in Japan will be hosted by Baylor University's Japanese program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, in Morrison Hall Room 102.The warning comes after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered a monster tsunami on March 11 last year that killed more people and crippled Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, sparking the world's worst atomic accident in a generation.

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