Last last Friday, March 11th, 2011. A powerful earthquake of stroke Japan coastal area. Due to that, waves of tsunami, rushed from coast up to inland. It was so devastating. With aftershocks after another one, people were so worried what would happen. All their neighboring countries got alerted for tsunamis. Sendai, one of the most affected place in Japan by the earthquake and the tsunami was devastated and inundated. You could see from from the sky that the water just pass in. Thou it wasn't the water doing much of the damage but the debris that is joining and colliding again and again with other structures and other debris.
Hundreds of cars, got washed away. Boats got carried away. Water routes were like a jungle river full of series of waterfall.
I heard the news about it just as I came back home from school. I was shocked by a this sudden news from CNN that I heard. I think it happened 30mins ago where we were still enjoying our Culminating Activity.
We didn't feel any quake thou it was very far. Hawaii, the US coastal cities of San Fransisco and California, Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia raised their tsunami warnings. Everyone was alert.
Well the tsunami wasn't the only problem, despite the huge technological advancement of japan, they have nuclear power plants around the country. The quake stroke some damage to some powerplants which cause fire.
Some were able to be put out but one of them exploded. The tsunami already done enough damage to the lives of the Japanese people, but the explosion of the power plant is like the atomic bomb dropped by the Americans during WWII. We don't like the radioactive chemicals of the nuclear power plant. Just by getting touched by it several times, or inhaling it to much, CAN cause defectiveness to the next generations.
I hope that they'll be able rise and stand up again from such blow.
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