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The 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan in 2011 and killed approximately 20,000 people was one of the biggest in the history of the country, and needless to say, those who experienced the whole thing on their own certainly can’t forget those terrifying moments.
And a car-sharing group called Japan Car Sharing Association wants to make sure that customers know everything about the earthquake that generated a tsunami with waves as high as 38 meters, so they created a new navigation application whose purpose is to share stories about the disaster to the one driving the car. All in a rather interactive fashion, that is.
While this doesn’t necessarily sound like something the typical driver would like to hear, the idea is specifically supposed to show how certain regions that were severely hit by the earthquake managed to recover during all these years.
So when starting the app, it first provides a closer look at the damage recorded by the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture. Next, the navigation software provides four different routes around the city to offer more information, along with stories shared by local residents about the impact the natural disaster had on the region. Drivers are guided to key areas that were hit, including an elementary school that was destroyed by the tsunami.
The 2011 Japan earthquake was a magnitude 9.0, which means it was the most powerful earthquake that hit the country since 1900. According to stories that were shared by local newspapers, the buildings kept shaking for up to five minutes, with several aftershocks, many of them exceeding magnitude 7.0, recorded in the next hours.
The earthquake, which took place in the Pacific Ocean, caused a massive tsunami that’s believed to have caused 90 percent of the deaths recorded following the disaster. Nearly 500,000 people were forced to leave their homes, with Japan officially declaring a nuclear emergency a few days after the earthquake.
While this doesn’t necessarily sound like something the typical driver would like to hear, the idea is specifically supposed to show how certain regions that were severely hit by the earthquake managed to recover during all these years.
So when starting the app, it first provides a closer look at the damage recorded by the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture. Next, the navigation software provides four different routes around the city to offer more information, along with stories shared by local residents about the impact the natural disaster had on the region. Drivers are guided to key areas that were hit, including an elementary school that was destroyed by the tsunami.
The 2011 Japan earthquake was a magnitude 9.0, which means it was the most powerful earthquake that hit the country since 1900. According to stories that were shared by local newspapers, the buildings kept shaking for up to five minutes, with several aftershocks, many of them exceeding magnitude 7.0, recorded in the next hours.
The earthquake, which took place in the Pacific Ocean, caused a massive tsunami that’s believed to have caused 90 percent of the deaths recorded following the disaster. Nearly 500,000 people were forced to leave their homes, with Japan officially declaring a nuclear emergency a few days after the earthquake.
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