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NORTHEAST JAPAN- On March 11, 2011 at approximately 2:46pm the fifth largest earthquake in the world, with a ground shattering magnitude of 8.9 hit the northeast part of Japan. For more than 2 horrifying minutes that seemed like hours the streets, homes, and buildings shook with such intensity that skyscrapers where crumbling. The earthquake unleashed a tsunami that reached the height of 33 ft. The wall of water swept 250 miles of houses, cars, and debris. Six thousand nine hundred eleven are dead and ten thousand three hundred sixteen people are missing. Japan is gradually getting back on it's feet like all nations do after a calamity of such. With the help of U.S. air carriers and ships Japan will reconstruct and move on. Their motto: 'to do their best and preserve and suppress their own feelings for the sake of the 'group" will come in handy. As for the nuclear power plants, they pose as threats because they refuse to cool. Some of the cooling systems for these plants were damaged during the disaster. Many residents living near a plant were forced to evacuate because of the fear of a massive meltdown. The cooling systems are needed to keep nuclear fuel from unnecessary heating and meltdowns. Meltdowns release poisonous radiations into the atmosphere.
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