The morning after Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake to hit the island nation in recorded history and the tsunami it unleashed. Some waves reached 10 kilometers inland. Japanese media reported that hundreds more people were missing. Tens of thousands of people were displaced, according to Japan's Kyodo News Agency. The quake, which struck at 2:46 p.m., prompted the U.S. National Weather Service to issue tsunami warnings for at least 50 countries and territories.
Six million household were without electricity, said Japan's ambassador to the United States, Ichiro Fujisaki. A leak occurred in an atomic power plant in northeast Japan. Cooling equipment stopped working when generators failed in the quake, and the temperature inside the plant in the Fukushima prefecture had risen; officials lowered the pressure inside the plant hangar by venting it. But high levels of radiation led officials to suspend the release. The quake also disrupted rail service and affected air travel and hundreds of flights were canceled. There was no immediate word of casualties, but the Defense Ministry said 1,800 homes were destroyed.
This was a well written article, but I had to cut out a lot of facts because of long it was. Most of the comments on CNN were sympathetic, but there were quite a few people commenting on how this was humanity's fault, or seeing a pattern of natural disasters. Its strange how vocal paranoid people are.
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