{"id":14555,"date":"2011-03-11T21:53:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T19:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14555"},"modified":"2011-03-11T21:53:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T19:53:54","slug":"earthquake-and-tsunami-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/11\/earthquake-and-tsunami-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake and tsunami in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’ve all heard the words “earthquake” and “tsunami” before. \u00a0We are all aware that these phenomena are not a stranger to Japan. \u00a0We all secretly hope that Japanese know how to handle such events. \u00a0And they in fact do a really good job. \u00a0But what happened today was different. \u00a0It was on the Grand Scale. \u00a0According to this Wikipedia page<\/a>, today’s earthquake measured 8.9 on Richter scale<\/strong>, which earns it a 7th place in the list of largest earthquakes<\/strong> worldwide.<\/p>\n

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Such powers of nature are difficult, almost impossible to imagine. \u00a0And of course the effects of these are profound – people dead and hurt, houses and other properties destroyed, lives dramatically changed, and so on and so forth. \u00a0All that will not go away tomorrow. \u00a0On the contrary, this will from now on be a part of Japanese history. \u00a0And world history. \u00a0 Since it will affect more than just Japan (look at what happened to financial markets today, for example), and it will take more than just Japan to recover from this event.<\/p>\n

Gladly, the world is full of kind and considerate people. \u00a0Several donation efforts started already. \u00a0Humanitarian organizations jumped in. \u00a0And the recovery works have already begun. \u00a0Needless to say it will take time. \u00a0A long time…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

We’ve all heard the words “earthquake” and “tsunami” before. \u00a0We are all aware that these phenomena are not a stranger to Japan. \u00a0We all secretly hope that Japanese know how to handle such events. \u00a0And they in fact do a really good job. \u00a0But what happened today was different. \u00a0It was on the Grand Scale. … Continue reading Earthquake and tsunami in Japan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1338,2787,150,841,2788],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-disasters","tag-earthquakes","tag-japan","tag-nature","tag-tsunami"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14603,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/17\/japanese-tragedy-continued\/","url_meta":{"origin":14555,"position":0},"title":"Japanese tragedy continued","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Big Picture continues the series on Japanese disaster. \u00a0As on of the comments says: It's just incredible how tragedy is heaping upon tragedy - the earthquake, then tsunami, then reactor problems, volcano - and now frigid weather. 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