Japan, a state in crisis
On Friday, March 11th
2011, Northeastern Japan was devastated by
a 10 meter high tsunami and a massive earthquake.
he Japanese earthquake is the
strongest ever registered (8.
9
magnitude).
There were 25,000
casualties (9,500 people died and 16,000
were reported missing).
The country is paralyzed...
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Japan, a state in crisis On Friday, March 11th 2011, Northeastern Japan was devastated by a 10 meter high tsunami and a massive earthquake. he Japanese earthquake is the strongest ever registered (8. 9 magnitude). There were 25,000 casualties (9,500 people died and 16,000 were reported missing). The country is paralyzed because of the 300 billion damages: roads, schools, cities, disappeared, 18,000 buildings were destroyed so 256. 000 people lost their house. The tsunami led to a nuclear crisis(a plant was partly destroyed in Fukushima) and 660,000 households remain without electricity. This nuclear crisis became a real nuclear disaster because there were explosions in two reactors and the third reactor is about to melt. Radioactivity was found in the sea, so the population who can’t eat fish anymore. Japan does everything to control the situation and stop the crisis but it isn’t so easy. If the plant explodes, it will be very bad for the wor
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Pub. on Apr. 16th 2011
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