Sat. 19th March, 2011
It has past now 1 week since a massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit Northern Japan. Nature shocked us all not only by shaking the earth we built our houses onto and walk with our feet, it sent also a disruptive 10 meter high tsunami wave traveling up to 10 km inland along the east coast. Fire was spread and - as it would not be already enough - then also invisible radiation was detected in the air coming from a nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture. Earth, water, fire and air! The 2011 T?hoku Chih? Taiheiy?-oki Jishin was the most powerful earthquake ever hit Japan, and one of the four most powerful earthquakes ever in the world since modern recording began.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://typo3.org/article/disaster-in-japan-through-the-eyes-of-typo3-community-members/