martes, 15 de marzo de 2011

Article on Japan's Natural Disaster

It was 2:44 pm (local time) in Japan. It had been a normal day. People were at work, others at home. Kids were arriving from school--some, not all. The ocean was azure, so as the sky. Everything was so normal in Japan. People trafficking  accelerated and decelerated, everything was just normal until the clock marked 2:46 pm... Suddenly everything started shaking. People couldn't stand straight, they were fitful, not steady. A massive earthquake of 8.9 magnitude had hit Japan. You could hear people shouting, cars crashing, the sound was as audible as it could possibly be.

Minutes later, the floor stopped shaking. People thought everything was over, all the natural causes. They didn't expect any other natural disaster happening, but 15-30 minutes later, a copious amount of water flooded all Japan causing houses, cars, farms, factories, get on fire. It left a lot of people homeless, dead, and disappeared. This tsunami was a 10 meter one.

The number of deaths is still unclear since a lot of persons are still missing.

Adept people in tsunamis and earthquakes investigated how the tsunami formed. They said it preceeded from the earthquake which means that the earthquake cause the tsunami and prompted at least 19 countries and islands in the Pacific Ocean to have tsunami alerts.

After all of this happened, their have been a lot of aftershocks.

Interviews of people that were their in Japan--people who were eyewitnesses of the natural disaster and survived-- said and described how Japan ended being, destroyed. This made a big impact on its economy. This means Japan needs our help.

1 comentario:

  1. Great story!!! You just need to fix some little mistakes and thats it! :)

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