Nightmare in Japan

何をしたらいいかわからないから、とりあえず、節電をして過ごすことにしました。微々たることしか思いつかず、むずむずするけど。

とにかく、信じられないよ。

日本全国、世界各国、力を貸してくれようと動いているひとりひとりに感謝。遠くから 近くから、気にかけて連絡をくれた人たちありがとう。

Newsweek-
Nightmare in Japan

March 11, 2011
Iwaki City

The earth shook for more than two minutes. Buildings cracked and skyscrapers swayed. Then the tsunami swept in.

It was the most powerful earthquake Japan had suffered in a long and deadly seismic history. The ocean floor heaved, unleashing walls of water on the country’s Pacific edge. Floods washed away neighborhoods, and fires raged in cities like Iwaki. Broad swaths of coastline were destroyed.

There is a reason, as NEWSWEEK Japan editor Takashi Yokota said in the quake’s aftermath, that the word “tsunami” is Japanese. The island nation sits near four tectonic plates and sees more seismic activity than any other country in the world. And though Japan takes pride in being ready for the worst—with tremor-resistant buildings and state-of-the-art warning systems—it seemed nothing could have prepared the country for the sheer force of the 8.9-magnitude quake.