Monday 14 March 2011

Japan Earthquakes

Japan is the easternmost island/country present on a world map. Inspite of being such a smaller country, Japan is one of the most advanced countries in the world. It is a land of many popular electronic industries. It is a country which has the highest expenditure rate in the whole world. It exports many electronic/electrical components to many countries in the world. It is already, a permanent member of UN security council and is also one among the VITO powered nations, a member of G8 nations.

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Japan is always threatened by earthquakes and volcanoes. That is why people of japan always build their houses in wood. This time, Japan was attacked by a massive earthquake of rictor scale 8.8. This massive earthquake led to a Tsunami which flooded the southern Japan. Many towns, cities got washed away by its effect. Lots of people were injured and many were claimed dead by this catastrophy. 


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This disastrous earthquake has shattered many towns and villages covering a considerably larger landmass than a usual earthquake would do. This has led to death of around 2000 people so far and many thousands missing. Literally there are villages/towns that were washed away from the Japan's political map.

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Japan's fate was far worser than expected. When people were feeling a sigh of relief when the Tsunami ended, another earthquake of rictor scale 5.5 hit the other parts of Japan and an another Tsunami was stimulated. With the first quake, government has already closed most of the nuclear reactors in the Tsunami hit places. Even before government could start the rescue operations in the Tsunami hit areas, another quake hit the eastern nation.
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When the Tsunami hit the shores, the tides forced into most of the coastal areas and submerged many cities. Out of these cities, many reactors which were feared of explosions were also affected. Some of these reactors have exploded during the coolant's failure. This led to massive explosions in those areas. The amount of radio-active material let out was unknown !

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When you start counting the amount of material damage and the property damage, it would take a year to first estimate the loss. Then assessing this lost would take a year more. 

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Many cars/ buildings/ massive materials floated with the ocean water. The floods have caused people lose their property and would take at least a year to recover from this loss. Many boats, ships were waved into cities due to the effect of tides.

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Hope the nations across the world extend help to this suffering nation and bring it back to the normal state !!

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