Disasters, Natural and Unnatural
Reflections on March 11, 2011, and Its Aftermath
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3635378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theodore C Bestor (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 763-782 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911813001770 |
| OpenAlex | W2156410763 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 25 |
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m. local time, an earthquake with an epicenter 130 kilometers east of Sendai off the Pacific coast of northern Japan shook the Tohoku region more violently than any tremor in a thousand years. The quake was approximately 9.0 in magnitude, and it in turn triggered a set of tsunami hurtling across the Pacific Ocean, striking first the coast of Tohoku with waves of unprecedented height and strength, along a coastline stretching roughly 400 kilometers. In Fukushima, 180 kilometers west-southwest of the epicenter, 15-meter waves roared over seawalls supposedly protecting a nuclear reactor built just a few meters from the ocean's edge, starting a chain of events that resulted in an explosion the following day that began the release of radioactive materials (which continues still), sparking high anxiety if not palpable panic in Tokyo, the center of which is 240 kilometers to the south-southwest of the Fukushima nuclear complex
Epicenter · Geography · Quake (natural phenomenon) · Seismology · West coast · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Geology · Oceanography · Risk Perception and Management
Earthquakes in Japan
Affective Protest Symbols
From Chernobyl to Fukushima
From tragedy to triumph
Patterns of disaster commemoration in long‐term recovery
Museums of themselves
From volunteers to voluntours
Disasters and 'conditions of possibility
Virtual Earthquakes and Real-World Survival in Japan'sDisaster ReportVideo Game
Catastrophic Asia
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Risk Society
The Social Life of Things
The Great Kant? Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan
The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
Japan Copes with Calamity
Footprints in Paradise
The Logic of Practice
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Namazu-e and Their Themes. An Interpretative Approach to Some Aspects of Japanese Folk Religion
Namazu-e and Their Themes. An Interpretative Approach to Some Aspects of Japanese Folk Religion
Toxic Archipelago
How sushi went global
Risk society
The Ongoing Disaster
Radioactive Rain and the American Umbrella
Living with Uncertainty after March 11, 2011
Japanese Seismicity and the Limits of Prediction
The Public Anthropology of Disaster
An Anthropology of Structural Violence
Danger in the Lowground
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,91 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |