The Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami
The
Tohoku earthquake and Tsunami
Yoichi
Horibe
Japanese people suffered from the
great earthquake and Tsunami this past March. The earth quake and Tsunami
killed over 20,000 people near Sendai which is the north part of Japan. Actually,
there was a lot of people killed by the Tsunami, the earthquake brought about
the Tsunami because the scale, a magnitude of 9 was enormous. At my home place,
the magnitude of 6, was the first time my town suffered from such a big
earthquake. Hurricane Katrina killed over 1600 American people in 2006. We can see
how the earth quake and the tsunami are terrible.
This was most enormous natural
incident while I lived in Japan. This incident affected Japanese society
pleiotropically. For example as an economic side, a lot of factory such as
Toyota was broken and the production volume decreased seriously. Also the
incident broke the nuclear reactor. That
is to say, natural disaster brought about artificial disaster. Still now the
stock of Tokyo Electronic Company which is most famous Japanese electronics company
concerning nuclear reactor is down intensity because they had a responsibility
to keep nuclear reactor safe but they couldn’t keep it safe and they lost the
trust of stockholders. However the company was given salvation money from
government.
Secondly, The British Red Cross
received a lot of donations from all over the world to assist with relief funds
to Japan. Especially, Taiwan donated 13 million dollars and America donated 9
million dollar. There were a lot of famous people who donated contribution
privately. Lady Gaga also sent huge contribution for the Japanese disaster.
Thirdly, I would like to introduce
how I experienced the aftermath of the earthquake. I faced some convenience
stores which were vacant by buying up of goods even if my home place which is
far from Sendai, and I saw also long line which were a lot of cars that wanted
to charge gasoline because government planned to stop all of electronics on
determined time and we couldn’t use train and so on. However, I don’t remember
why I lined to charge gasoline obviously.
In conclusion, I was involved the
panic and I lost my calm judging from the memory. We sent a wrong message on
twitter. Human is easy to be influenced by wrong information especially in the
panic situation. It is also social problem in this era. We always have to
prepare for disaster by learning this lesson even if whatever happens next.
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