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by ifdefdebug
3129 days ago
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> 230k people still displaced in 2015 The displacement is mostly due to radioactive contamination still being high in several zones around Fukushima. The tsunami was a huge catastrophe but it's over. There is no breaking news to get coverage. Fukushima on the other hand is an ongoing disaster producing news from time to time which, naturally, get coverage. |
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http://fukushimaontheglobe.com/the-earthquake-and-the-nuclea...
Sendai is some 50km away from Fukushima and the population center is well outside the evacuation area. Tamura and Minamisoma are the only cities within it.
The tsunami destroyed 400k structures and decimated Sendai, which (note that the figures in the linked article are in 10s of people and structures as indicated at the top of the figures). Some 300k people and 100k homes were within the inundation, ~25% of the local population.
http://tohokugeo.jp/articles/e-contents16.html
In the Fukushima evacuation area the majority of the surface is less than 4x background radition ~1uSv/hr. In discussing an ongoing disaster please look at this video:
https://youtu.be/G_0rQ9hnP84?t=477
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Contamination_dropping_...
https://xkcd.com/radiation/