You cannot have missed the terrible events in Japan. On television, in the newspapers, and on the radio we hear and see about the earthquake and the following tsunami.
Earthquakes are the most common natural disaster in Japan. This country has continuous earthquake activity because of its position.
some weeks ago an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 occurred in the Pacific Ocean, close to the Japanese coast. This earthquake initiated a tsunami that swept across coastal regions of Eastern Japan.
A tsunami is another natural disaster, it’s a tidal wave. When a tsunami gets nearer the coast it starts to slow down and grow in height. Tsunamis occurred in Japan because it’s surrounded by water and because Japan has a lot of earthquakes which causes tsunamis.
CONSEQUENCES
- At the moment we don’t know how many people have died, but the officials and newspapers say at the moment they know about 18000 deaths approximately with a lot of missed people.
- Streets are destroyed; buildings and houses are floating on the water and people are completely confused.
- There are three nuclear reactors which have exploded because of the blackout, the temperature of these nuclear reactors couldn’t be controlled and they get warm. So the radioactivity affects to some people who lives there and nearer Japan. Children are more vulnerable to radioactivity.
- Also some aliments as milk or water have got iodine 131
- The Earth’s rotation has changed, because of the tectonic plate’s movement.
- Japan has moved 4 cm to the East.
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