Japan Earthquake and Tsumani

Maryam AL-Naimi9C

What Happened? In March 11 2011 Japan was hit by an earthquake that devastated the whole country, this earthquake was found to have happened under water which ended up bringing a huge tsunami across all of Japan. The earthquake was an aggressive and deadly 8.9 on the richter. This is the biggest crisis to happen in Japan since WW2, the huge hit by the tsunami also damaged several reactors at Fukushima nuclear power station causing a huge nuclear crisis seen.

Article 1: France 24The France 24 news channel article claims that issue in Japan is one of the biggest crisis to hit japan since WW2 and that this earthquake has highly impacted it.

Article 2: CNNThe CNN news channel article doesn't really show us what happened or how it happened but mostly what happened afterwords such as economical issues, social destruction. Then don't state or inform the people of what it is that happened but they avoid that and talk about how the people are struggling know, making Japan seem in misery and defeat.

Article 3: ABC NewsThe ABC news channel mostly talks about how this impacted travel in Japan and how the US has been protecting its people from this before even thinking of helping the people of Japan and supporting there new needs and trying to solve their issues.

Comparison

Social ImpactsA lot of people lost there family members and friends...having to go through loosing someone dream to you is hard but having lost your house, country and seeing shatter in front of your eyes is even harder. The article by France 24 shows us how people try to comfort family members by informing them that they are ok.

"Jason Sabio, a member of the Philippine national soccer team, landed at Tokyo's Narita International Airport as the earthquake began. He took to Facebook to let family and

friends know he was safe."The article claims that after people safetly left Japan they started by contacting family members and assuring them about there safety.

Political ImpactsThe government from Japan is said to worry more about there environment and physical features that they didn't check for there people first. CNN's article about the issue says:

"The government is barely there, leaving one victim to clutch the arm of Japan's vice minister of the cabinet office

as he made a visit to the evacuation center. The elderly woman pleads for help, saying her town needed more

supplies, food, and steady heat and electricity."We can see that even the vice minister worried for his own safety before the people, some may claim that it is because of the extreme epic the earthquake had on them and some say it is just showing the long existing weakness the Japanese government.

Economic ImpactsThe damages in Japan were huge and to be able to restore all of the settelments and landmarks Japan would have to invest in a huge amount, they were low at money in the time so they used what they had left and what other countries gave they from charties and fundraisers.

"Japan's government approved a budget of $48.5 billion Friday to help fund reconstruction efforts after

the March 11 earthquake and tsunami left much of the country in ruins."

Environmental ImpactsA huge environmental nuclear attack. Causing huge

problems and leasing to things like acid rain. France 24 News tell say:

"The deadly tidal wave also knocked out several reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power station, giving the world its biggest nuclear crisis since

Chernobyl in 1986."

Solutions...Japan seemed to come back from this strongly, it did have help from other countries and people but it seemed to attempt to handle this is in a civilized and a well sorted manner. Although looking at what the new anchors tell us we can argue that there is too much damage for this to be recovered complety in the next few years, but in a decade or so they might be back on there feet. The amount of damage and injuries is sumed up for us by CNN:

"The Iwate prefectural police say, so far, the death toll stands at 504 people, with 1,048

missing. The police caution that the numbers are likely not accurate, because the tsunami

wiped out entire families in Otsuchi, so there's no one to report missing or dead people. Almost

6,000 people are homeless."