DESTRUCTION IN JAPAN

 

 An 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan on 11 March,2011 causing a major tsunami and serious damage.This is the fifth largest earthquake ever recorded and it is the largest in Japan’s recorded history. More than  5,178 people died and thousands are missing.The tsunami swept away boats,cars,houses and people.The earthquake has caused major damage in broad areas in northern Japan.In a single day, 300,000 citizens were homeless, 15,000 injured and 5,000 lost their lives.There are shortages of food,water and basic supplies.Hospitals and local communities are having shortages of medicines.                                                                     

Radiations from the nuclear power plant  has contaminated the food,milk,water which can cause cancer.The contamination has also spread in Tokyo.The effects of radiation are harmful. The Japanese government instructed the governors of Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma Prefectures to restrict shipments of their spinach due to radiation leaks from an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant in Fukushima.The government also instructed Fukushima prefecture to suspend shipments of raw milk produced in the northern Japan prefecture.Japan's nuclear nuclear reaction can also reach and hit airplanes.Because of the radiation the citizens who live near the nuclear sight are told to stay indoors.More than 300 engineers have mobilized to help to slow down the reaction and workers have been spraying water continuously.

Japan is now currently facing shortage of food and medicines.In north more than 1 million households are without electricity.People are surviving with little food and water says the Government.Loads of humanitarian aids were sent to the worst-hit areas but some areas are unreachable.Emergency operation centers were established to help out all affected by the quake and tsunami.Most of the countries are providing aid for the restoration of Japan and they are proving food and medicines for the victims.