Disaster in Japan

                For this blog entry, I’m going to talk about the disaster that happened in Japan on March, 11, 2011. It started with an earthquake that was approximately on a scale of 8.9 that lasted for 20 seconds. To make things worse, there was a tsunami that left the entire village under water.

                This disaster is a great impact in today’s world, and if you see videos, you can see how japan suffered from an earthquake that was very strong and then from a tsunami which finished many lives. It is said that approximately over a thousand people are killed and probably counting. After a horrible earthquake, the tsunami came and that’s when disaster struck.

                When the tsunami came, it destroyed millions of houses and it moved cars and boats as if they were just toys. Many Japanese people weren’t able to leave their house and get to higher ground to be saved so in return, their life was taken away by the water. Many Japanese people (but not all) were on the top of high buildings watching their house and probably family and friends being killed and swiped away by the tsunami. Now people in Japan are trying to survive with the very little food they have because of the huge wave that took away and destroyed the food they had.

                After both these terrible events, other problems have occurred. The first problem was that there were more than 300 aftershocks throughout Japan. Another thing that happened was that the nuclear power plant that Japan has, one of the huge barrels exploded so there is a possible nuclear gas/leak that can affect the people and kill them. In recent news, they stated that there was another earthquake after all the terrible stuff that happened and now Japanese people are predicting that there will be a tsunami. Hopefully the people are starting to evacuate and get to higher ground to be safe and so no more lives will be taken away.

                The United States are helping Japan to recover from the disaster by sending crates of food and supplies so that they can stay alive. A company that I saw who are helping Japan is the famous Apple Inc. If you go to their website, you will see a tab where you can donate money to help Japan after what happened. To the people, this shows that apple is a company who cares about what is happening around the world and more people will probably buy their products because of their hospitality. I hope Japan recovers and that no one else gets killed for whatever is to come.