In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan a year earlier, in March 2011. Yokoyama lost his home and three family members.
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the earthquake.
On March 11, 2011 a magnitude-9.0 earthquake occurred off Japan’s northeastern coast. It triggered a tsunami that devastated coastal communities and caused significant damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
