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Japan’s government on Wednesday unveiled a worst-case disaster scenario that warned a monster earthquake in the Pacific Ocean could kill over 320,000 people, dwarfing last year’s quake-tsunami disaster.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tokyo’s casualty toll estimate was based on a catastrophic scenario in which a powerful undersea quake of about 9.0 magnitude sparked a giant tsunami that swamps Japan’s coastline south of Tokyo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cabinet Office’s hypothetical disaster would see the quake strike at night-time during the winter with strong winds helping unleash waves that reach 34-metre (110 feet), sweeping many victims away as they slept.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of the estimated 323,000 victims would be drowned by the tsunami<\/strong>, crushed under falling objects or in fires sparked by the disaster, it said.<\/p>\n

On March 11 last year, a 9.0-magnitude quake struck seismically-active Japan in the early afternoon, triggering tsunami waves that reached 20 metres.<\/p>\n

About 19,000 were killed or remain missing while the tsunami slammed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant<\/strong>, sending reactors into meltdown and sparking the worst atomic crisis in a generation.<\/p>\n

The report was designed to paint a worst-case scenario and help officials boost their disaster preparedness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An estimate in 2003 assumed casualties of about 25,000 people, but that scenario envisioned a less powerful 8.4-magnitude quake striking a smaller area.<\/p>\n

The deadliest quake in Japanese history struck the central Kanto region in 1923, killing at least 100,000 people.<\/p>\n

This is pretty scary! Will it happen before December 2012?<\/strong>
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