Sendai
Capital of Miyagi Prefecture and largest city in Tōhoku.
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Coordinates: 38°16′05″N 140°52′08″E (38.2680, 140.8690) · Open in OpenStreetMap
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Sendai is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region, with a population of 1,098,335 in 539,698 households.[1]
Geography and history
Most mountains in Sendai are dormant volcanoes, though many hot springs indicate hydrothermal activity.[2] Summers are very warm, with an August average of 24.1 °C, and the city is rarely hit by typhoons.[3] Date Masamune, a daimyō, established the modern city in 1600.[4] Urban zones, paddy fields, and forests make up the 939 km² Sendai basin.[5]
January's average temperature is 1.5 °C, with winters being cool and having relatively little moisture.[3] A magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast on 11 March 2011, along with the tsunami it generated, caused devastating destruction in coastal areas.[4]
What the cited sources add
A 2011 news report described stunning TV footage of the tsunami carrying burning debris across coastal farmland near Sendai.[6] The same report noted that cars were carried from surrounding streets into Sendai airport.[6] A BBC report stated that a 10m wave struck Sendai, deluging farmland and sweeping cars across the airport's runway.[7] That report also noted that in one ward alone in Sendai, 200 to 300 bodies were found.[7]
The Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion reported that the 2005 Miyagi earthquake had a magnitude of 7.2 and occurred at a depth of approximately 40 km.[8] That agency concluded the 2005 event was not the expected repeat of the 1978 Off-shore Miyagi Prefecture Earthquake.[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "Sendai" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: City of Sendai (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sendai" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Earthquake Off-shore of Miyagi Prefecture on August 16, 2005", Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion, 17 August 2005 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sendai" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hiromitsu Kanno, "Classification of the Yamase (cold northeasterly wind around northeastern Japan) based upon its air-mass vertical structures", Tenki (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sendai" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Magnitude 8.9 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN", US Geological Survey, 11 March 2011; "Japanese earthquake update - Government response", UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, March 2011; "Japan earthquake: timeline of the disaster, from tsunami to nuclear crisis", The Telegraph, 15 March 201; "Killer tsunami surges across Japan after 8.9 quake", Sydney Morning Herald, 11 March 2011 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Sendai" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chen, "GIS and Remote Sensing in Hydrology, Water Resources and Environment", International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 1 September 2004, p. 392–393 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Killer tsunami surges across Japan after 8.9 quake", Sydney Morning Herald, 11 March 2011. facts only, no text reused. smh.com.au
- "Japan earthquake: Tsunami hits north-east", BBC, 11 March 2011. facts only, no text reused. bbc.co.uk
- "Earthquake Off-shore of Miyagi Prefecture on August 16, 2005", Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion, 17 August 2005. facts only, no text reused. jishin.go.jp
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- Wikipedia: Sendai (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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