ECONOMIST  |  Asia

Japan is still reeling 100 days after the Noto earthquake

Police officers walk past a razed neighborhood in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan in January 2024

2024-04-01    

The shaking began around 4pm on New Year’s Day. “The sea looked black, and it was swirling,” Mr Hamazuka recalls. At a magnitude of 7.6 the quake was the strongest to hit the country since the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, which triggered a massive tsunami and precipitated the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima. The seismic activity in Noto initiated a process known as “liquefaction”, wherein normally solid ground turns into a liquid-like substance, warping roads and twisting structures. In Wajima, the peninsula’s main city, a fire broke out at a market, leaving a wasteland behind.

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