Japan Quake Aftermath

March 11, 2011 14:49: Eastern Pacific coast earthquakes occurred

Epicenter : 373km (NE) of Tokyo, underground 24.4Km point

Magnitude : Earthquake close to 9 in the Richter scale occurred  (The largest earthquake ever in Japan, the fifth earthquake on Earth,

Summary of Damage Regions

East coast of Tohoku regions-Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima prefecture- and east coast of Kanto region -Ibaraki and Chiba prefecture were damaged directly (by earthquake and tsunami).

So far over 7,000 lives were lost, over 12000 person unfound, and 300,000 homeless

The loss of communication infrastructure (NTT Docomo, etc.), nuclear power plants, etc.  in the regions and all industrial manufacturing plants shutdown (temporary or provisional), disruptions occurred.

It appears that some infrastructures of the east coast of Tohoku region -Yamagata and Niigata Prefecture- were affected.

Miyagi Prefecture

- Sendai Airport flooding

- Costal towns damage by 10m tsunami

- Large-scale loss of life

- Onagawa nuclear plant , partly fire, partly driving ban

- Sony's 6 factories shutdown (4 factories in Miyagi, 2 factories in Fukushima, Tagajo chemical components (Sony Chemicals) 1st floor flooded

- Murata Manufacturing shutdown (Miyagi and Tochigi Prefecture)

- JX Nippon Oil Factory damage

- Toyota Motor, factory shutdown

Fukushima Prefecture

- Fukushima 1,2,3,4 nuclear plants shutdown and unstable (radioactive spill concern continued)

- Nissan Motor, 6 factories shutdown

- Panasonic factory disruption (Fukuyama Prefecture factory, Sendai factory in Miyagi Prefecture included)

Aomori Prefecture

- Power supply to 4.4 million households stopped

- Pioneer, factory damage (Aomori, Yamagata Prefecture)

- Renesas, factory shutdown

Chiba Prefecture

- JFE Holdings, steel factory fire

- Cosmo Oil, factory fire

Ibaraki Prefecture

-  JSR, factory production stop

- Tokyo Gas, gas supply stop

- Sumitomo Metal Industries, smelting furnace temporary stop

- Daikin Industries,  production stop

- Murata factory was destroyed and his component short ship after the Ipad Production in Foxconn China

Sharp LCD Panel factory shout down and affecting 20% world LCD panel output.

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Inc. (MGC), Monday that two of its facilities, one in Fukushima prefecture and one in Ibaraki prefecture, shut down due to partial damage to equipment and buildings, Its major product bismaleimide triazine resin, an epoxy resin used in chip making is almost entirely produced by MGC

This shortage of BT would most impact programmable logic vendors Xilinx Inc. and Altera Corp., as well as Qualcomm Inc.  

Sanyo, Sharp and Panasonic have already suspended operations at several of their plants. The brand new multibillion dollar Sharp LED display plant in Sakai, which has been designed to handle earthquakes automatically shut down when the first earthquake, tremor was detected.

Sanyo, Sharp and Panasonic have already suspended operations at several of their plants. The brand new multibillion dollar Sharp LED display plant in Sakai, which has been designed to handle earthquakes automatically shut down when the first earthquake, tremor was detected.

The consequence is many sectors of the Japanese factories would be affected and it may take a few month 3-9 months to resume normal operation.

We foresee that this will force them to think a head seriously for overseas factory volume implementation. They will keep some of their high technology products manufacturing overseas whereas Japan used to keep them locally.

There will be more open opportunity for other overseas countries to gain more exposure for working with Japan to build more Hi end Electrnics and semiconductor products. Whereas more jelly bean products are loaded to overseas.

More Investor will shift more portion of their investment into Korean Electronics giants like Samsung and LG!

HK Snob