Tsunami in Japan

Sophie Moynihan
7B
Current events
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-11/world/japan.quake_1_hokkaido-tsunami-east-japan-railway?_s=PM:WORLD
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/japan.quake/index.html?iref=obnetwork
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/14/japans-earthquake-and-tsunami-by-the-numbers/

On Friday, March 11, an 8.9 earthquake struck just off the coast of Japan. This caused a powerful Tsunami that completely wiped out the shores and towns around the coast of Japan. The quake was felt as far as Seattle, L.A., and other cities on the west coast of the United States. The epicenter was near Miyagi Prefecture, and the quake caused the island of Japan to move about 8 feet (2km) and moved the earth so violently that it tilted the planet off its axis and caused our days to be about a milli- second shorter. The quake made home collapse and has left many homeless, and many more dead or severely injured. "It shook things so violently I thought things were coming to an end ... it was simply terrifying." Said a man named Andy Clark, who has been living in Japan for about 20 and got use to the little reoccurring quakes that happen there daily. 30 foot waves came up onto the shore and hit about 60% of the country. Around 10% are still without power,food, or drinking water. There are 2,475 people that have been reported dead and about 3,118 people have been reported missing as of Tuesday morning. There are many countries that are already pitching in and thousands of dollars are being donated everyday in order to help pay off the millions of dollars of damage that has been caused by the quake.

What happened in Japan was really scary and awful. I have been tuning in every day this weekend on CNN. It was really crazy to see the wall of water spill over the shore and onto land and cause to much destruction in such a little time. I always imagined a tsunami as a big wave that stopped at the shore line but after seeing how the wave came and wreaked total houses that were almost 10 miles off the shore really scared me. Now I'm worried about what coming to Seattle, although I'm pretty sure the worst of it is over. I look forward to contributing to helping people re-build all the housed and plains that were destroyed and have some ideas of how we can raise awareness in our school and give back to the people in need.