March 10, 20215 yr Hard to believe it was only ten years ago. It seems like history. But the huge 9:00 magnitude quake that hit just off the eastern coast of northern Japan took place at 14:46 local time ten years ago tomorrow. The events which then unfolded were screened around the world as all looked on in horror. We saw the tsunami waves making their way to the coast where towns were thought to be protected by large tsunami walls and gates. None worked. The water just cascaded over them and moved whole sections of towns inland. Worse, further down the coast the nuclear plant at Fukushima was inundated. In theory its shore defences should have been high enough. But I have read that one result of the earthquake was to raise the land to the point where the defences were useless. True or not, it is now estimated that it will take 40 years to clean up the Fukushima area. How long it will take to make the nuclear waste water presently stored in huge tanks safe may be hundreds of years. But let us tomorrow remember the more than 18.000 people killed and the many more made homeless.
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