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By its own merits, the great earthquake that hit Japan on 11 March 2011 would have qualified as one of the worse disasters of recent times. With a magnitude of 9.0 MW, it was the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan, and one of the most powerful in history. It released a surface energy 2 × 1017 Joule. Enough, if harnessed, to power a city the size of Los Angeles for an entire year.
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Gómez Cadenas, J.J. (2012). Fukushima, or the Black Swan of Nuclear Energy. In: The Nuclear Environmentalist. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2478-6_14
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