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According to Oxfam, five million people were affected of which 1.7m were made homeless, half a million were injured and more than 230,000 were killed. The TEC said 40,000 to 45,000 more women than men were killed in the tsunami.
A tsunami generated by a 9.0 undersea earthquake in 2011, the most powerful quake to ever hit Japan, sent a wall of water into the Japanese coast, killed more than 15,000 people.ukashi Maeno, assistant professor of the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo, told Agence France-Presse the lava is accumulating on the east side of the island. âIf lava continues to mount on the eastern area, part of the islandâs slopes could collapse and cause a tsunami,â he told AFP.