The world is reacting with shock at the huge quake and tsunami that has devastated Japan, although people there have learnt to expect natural disasters, this is the worst they have had since 1923, when the great Kanto earthquake distraught Tokyo as fire swept across a city built of wooden houses, killing an estimated 140,000 people.
Information from the Japan's Geonet network of around 1,200 GPS monitoring stations hints a large dislocation after the massive quake last week on March 11, 2011.The quake possibly moved the Earth on its axis by about 6.5 inches (16.5cm) and caused the Earth to rotate a bit faster which would shorten the length of the day by about 1.8 millionths of a second.Japan's coastline may have shifted by as much as 13 feet to the east after Friday's 8.9 Magnitude earthquake according to experts.
Food, water and fuel are said to be running short in some parts of Japan and large swathes of the country remain without power.The central bank has infused a record of 15tn yen ($184bn) into money markets, as the Tokyo stock market drops on the first business day since the earthquake. Prime Minister Naoto Kan advises his country to unite and rebuild as it struggles to survive with the wreckage done by the quake and tsunami. He states that Japan is facing its worst crisis since World War II.
Information from the Japan's Geonet network of around 1,200 GPS monitoring stations hints a large dislocation after the massive quake last week on March 11, 2011.The quake possibly moved the Earth on its axis by about 6.5 inches (16.5cm) and caused the Earth to rotate a bit faster which would shorten the length of the day by about 1.8 millionths of a second.Japan's coastline may have shifted by as much as 13 feet to the east after Friday's 8.9 Magnitude earthquake according to experts.
Food, water and fuel are said to be running short in some parts of Japan and large swathes of the country remain without power.The central bank has infused a record of 15tn yen ($184bn) into money markets, as the Tokyo stock market drops on the first business day since the earthquake. Prime Minister Naoto Kan advises his country to unite and rebuild as it struggles to survive with the wreckage done by the quake and tsunami. He states that Japan is facing its worst crisis since World War II.
Survivors comfort each another in Otsuchicho, Japan,where 10,000 people are unaccounted for after the earthquake.
Japanese soldiers and Red Cross workers are carrying out a relief effort in north-east Japan.
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