On the 11th of March 2011, a huge earthquake attacked the northeast coast of Japan. It was magnitude 8.8, one of the biggest earthquake in the world in the last century. As I reported yesterday, it happened at 14:46, most of the people were at work, some managed to go home on foot and some remained at work. This earthquake is now named Higashi Nihon Daishinsai. (Eastern Japan Big Earthquake)

Japan is a country of earthquake, centuries and centuries people were liveing with it and it is said that there is no other nation which is as prepared as Japanese. Since we are child, we learn and practice how to act when an earthquake ocurrs. I remember at school and at work, once a year we had an emergency evacuation practice. While we were studying or working, suddenly a siren rang then a director's voice told us that it's quaking. We all sit under the desk with a hood for the protection, then evacuated to the open space.

Even that, in front of the natural disaster, we are helpless. This is the aftermath of the day after.

JR Shinchi Machi station in Fukushima prefecture was wiped out by Tsunami and only remained deformed train and a part of the station.
Kisen Numa in Miyagi prefecture collapsed by Tsunami.
Rikuzen Takata in Iwate prefecture is considered as totally destroyed. Entire city was covered with mud and some people who escaped to the rooftop of a supermarked are waiting for a rescue.
Fire-fighting men are checking inside a car abandoned on the side of the raiway.
People are escaping to the shelter, the small truck is passing by destroyed city.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has admitted that after the quake on the 11th of March around at 15:30, there was an explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant and approximately 90 people might have been exposed to radiation. Fukushima nuclear plant 1 and 2 have started to emit the steam contains radioactivity in order to low the pressure of the plants. Emergency directions was announced to the local residents in four towns about 50,000 perople around the plants escaped from their hometown.