Latest projection takes into account lessons from the March 11 disaster
A massive quake beneath northern Tokyo Bay would kill about 9,700 people, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Wednesday.
In its latest damage projection report, the
metropolitan government said approximately 70 percent of the area
covered by Tokyo's 23 wards would suffer a destructive temblor of upper 6
or stronger on the Japanese seismic intensity scale.
This is worse than the previous estimate of
six years ago, which envisaged an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 striking
the greater Tokyo area, and reflects new findings from the March 11
quake and tsunami. It also takes into account a recent study by the
science ministry that a massive inland quake threatening the
metropolitan areas will top the 7-level Japanese seismic intensity
scale.
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