8.9 Earthquake Hit Japan

I had only knew about this around 3 am in the morning yesterday when I went online.As I was out of town the whole evening yesterday,I didn't know about this at all until I came back around 1 am and after cleaning myself and finally getting ready to go to bed,I opened Google and it's the first thing I saw.I was shocked by it and I immediately looked up for the news online.But since it's already far into midnight and the fact that I was so tired,I promised myself to write about it today.So,here I am,writing about it,a little too late,but better than none at all.
    The 8.9 earthquake hit Japan near the east coast of Honshu at 2:46 pm (0546 GMT) and is said to last for 2 minutes.The affected areas are east of Honshu and northeast of Tokyo.In Tokyo,more than 1000 people are believed to be dead.Two of Japan's nuclear plants,Fukushima No.1 and No.2 located in northeast of Tokyo are also affected.These two is said to be experiencing nuclear meltdown as the emergency care cooling systems of the power plants is running on its backup batteries which is only enough for a few hours after the earthquake hit.Due to this,the authorities are forced to evacuate more than 45 000 residents nearby while they are trying to fix the problems.At the east of Sendai,Honshu the police has claimed that 200-300 bodies are found on the coast cause by the massive tsunami following the earthquake.Besides the numbers in Sendai,another 202 people are confirmed dead,673 went missing and 991 people are injured.
    This earthquake is the fifth most powerful to hit the world in the past century.This earthquake is followed by more than 50 aftershocks for hours with many of them having a magnitude of more than 6.0.Countries like Philippines and Indonesia are issued a tsunami alerts and also other countries in the Pacific region.So let's us put our hands together and pray that this all will come to the end and no other country will be affected.The damage in Japan are so enormous it'll be hard for the authorities to give out the exact data at this time,but all of us can imagine how much damage this earthquake has cause.Due to it,more than 1000 people are dead,a sum of people went missing,injured and countless are left homeless.
    Following this earthquake,an online websites has been set up to give the latest information to people regarding this and to help in any possible way.One of it is Person Finder.Let's do our parts and pray for the best especially to Japan.

Person Finder:2011 Japan Earthquake

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