Street Sentiment Of Fukushima - V Years On

Five Years afterwards the 2011 Great East Nippon Earthquake as well as tsunami, Google has over again updated its Street View imagery inwards or as well as thence of the areas devastated yesteryear the tragedy.

After the 2011 earthquake Google realized that its Street View applied scientific discipline provided an unrivaled resources which enabled the society to document the devastation on the basis inwards Japan. In June 2011 Google created the Memories for the Future website. The website allows anyone to postal service their memories, photos or videos of places as well as buildings lost to the Great East Nippon Earthquake. The site likewise allows visitors to explore earlier as well as afterwards Street View images of the areas affected yesteryear the earthquake.

Google has straight off updated Google Maps as well as the Memories for the Future website amongst novel Street View imagery taken betwixt June 2015 as well as Jan 2016. When viewing Street View on the Memories for the Future site y'all straight off possess got the option (where available) to switch betwixt Street View images taken 'Before', 'After' as well as 'After 2015'. You tin likewise persuasion the dissimilar Street View imagery on Google Maps yesteryear clicking on the appointment of the Street View as well as choosing a novel date.


Google's novel Street View imagery inwards Nippon agency that y'all tin explore how these areas are recovering from the devastation caused yesteryear the earthquake as well as tsunami. For example, inwards the 2013 Street View imagery of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture y'all tin come across a send that was swept good inwards terra firma yesteryear the tsunami. Switch to the latest Street View imagery, taken inwards August of final year, as well as y'all tin come across that the send has straight off been removed.