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1 Japan and the Ring of Fire Deadly Earthquakes and Tsunamis Mr. Mac

2 Japan by Satellite Notice the fault

3 Global Tectonic Plates Japan -- On the “Ring of Fire”

4 Japan’s Sub-Oceanic Trenches Tsunami anyone?

5 Japanese Earthquakes: 1961- 1994

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7 Ginza Ruins After The Great Kanto Earthquake -- Tokyo, 1923 Over 100,000 dead!

8 Kobe Earthquake -- January 17, 1995 ► 7.2 Richter scale ► 5,500 deaths

9 Kobe Earthquake -- January 17, 1995

10 2011 JAPAN EARTHQUAKE

11 Tsunami anyone? SITE OF 2011 EARTHQUAKE 18,00 people died -- mostly by drowning Nuclear reactor meltdown caused radio active water to be released

12 JAPAN TSUNAMI 2011

13 Interesting Websites to Check Out Earthquake Simulation http://www.iknowthat.com/mhscience/Earthquakes/Fixed.htm Facts about the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami http://www.livescience.com/39110-japan-2011-earthquake-tsunami-facts.html Japan Tsunami: 20 Unforgettable Pictures http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/pictures/110315-nuclear-reactor-japan- tsunami-earthquake-world-photos-meltdown/ Earthquake Information for Kids http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/

14 Analyzing Maps of Japan and the Korean Peninsula Directions: Using your computers, look up the following locations on Google Maps. Be sure to look at both earth and street views. You may explore and look up other areas of the 3 counties, and yes when you have done some exploring you can play Pac-Man! Japanese fault line to the east of the main islands Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Disneyland Watch a baseball game at the Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan Find a capsule hotel or Shinto Shrine in Japan Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan Take a walk through the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, Nagasaki, Japan Mount Fuji, Japan Seoul, South Korea Kim Il Sung Square, Pyongyang, North Korea


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