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Such a shocking disaster as the Japan earthquake, followed by an overwhelming tsunami which devastated the shipping towns located towards the north-east coast, has shock the world beyond belief, with rippling effects to last for at least several years.
Japanese television showed cars, ships and even entire neighbourhoods being swept away by a vast wall of tsunami water. Thousands were announced dead, over million believed to be missing and those residents who did manage to escape with their lives have no longer got a home to go back to.
As soon as this devastating news hit other countries, it was in no doubt a shock to find out; military planes and rescue teams were sent out in the hundreds to aid Japan at such a traumatizing time. Towns have been completely wiped out, and shipping villages utterly destroyed. What is left of the coastal towns is nothing more than rubble, and lost hope.
As speechless as this disaster is, it has opened our eyes to the gruelling work people are willing to do in order to rescue others, and care for those who have been severely affected. Wadding through debris, and sifting through demolished homes, the rescue teams' efforts to free the brutally injured, and the remaining bodies is a gruelling task that no one should ever have to do.
The earthquake has been the strongest in Japan in the last 140 years.
In spite of this catastrophe people are willing to go any extent to assist in rebuilding the towns annihilated, and support the people of japan trying to get there life back one small footstep at a time. There have been over 100 Japanese based architects and engineers who have offered their services in rebuilding in the quake affected areas and promises to use alldesignatedonations in the Japanese disaster communities.
Not only do the towns and villages need to be reformed: but roads which were seriously damaged by the 8.9 Richter magnitude earthquake, some roads worse than others. Whilst some roads will merely need concrete repair work, others will need to be dug up, and entirely re-laid.
The silence enveloping the earthquake stricken nation of Japan has been compared to the "stopping of the world" maybe in an attempt to gather and accept the reality of what has taken place.
