Sendai Earthquake And Tsunami – A Chart Of A History of Disaster.
Click on the image below, if you are interested in learning about the long history of earthquake activity of Honshu island, Japan’s largest island, and the location of Sendai, Fukushima (nuclear reactors), and Tokyo. This will take you to docstoc.com where I have published my data chart. It tracks Honshu earthquake activity, by order of magnitude, from 1762 to March 11, 2011.
The data source I used for the chart is the CATDAT Damaging Earthquake Database. According to CATDAT creator, Australian James E. Daniell, a “damaging earthquake,” for CATDAT purposes,
. . . is defined in the CATDAT database by the following criteria:-• Any earthquake causing collapse of structural components.
• Any earthquake causing death, injury or homelessness.
• Any earthquake causing damage or flow-on effects exceeding $100,000 USD, inflation adjusted to 2010.
Source: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DAMAGE OF HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES AND THEIR SECONDARY EFFECTS ON THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION INFRASTRUCTURE, James E. Daniell, 2010,
