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4 Years Later, Japan's Earthquake Still Offers Lessons For Oregon

OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting) 10 March 2015 USA Oregon

Allison Pyrch, Senior Project Geotechnical Engineer for Hart Crowser

<p>Four years ago, on March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake hit northeastern Japan. It unleashed a tsunami that savaged the country. Around 16,000 people died, and the material damage is estimated to have been about $300 billion. The disaster caught the ...

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