It's extremely hard to witness a 10m Tsunami caused by a 8.9 quake hitting the east coast of Japan, the most experienced country in terms of earthquakes and tsunamis, a Japanese name for high powerful waves, and yet stay completely helpless as it occurred. Tons of houses, cars, airplanes washed away, airport completely covered, gas pipes at refinery burst into flames and then a 4-reactor nuclear plant got compromised for several days when almost each reactor released high amounts of hydrogen while authorities were trying to cool them with any water they could find, in that case seawater. These hydrogen which in turns exploded outside the reactor-core, blowing off the roof, weakening and exposing the reactor-core and in one case made 2 holes in the reactor-core thus releasing considerable amounts of radioactive materials in the air.
This is the 5th biggest quake since recent memory and believe it or not the earth axis got slightly disturbed, and one day became slight shorter.
The stock market in Tokyo plunged 10 % and world markets wiped off $620 billion in 2 days.
Around the world people start to question nuclear plant's safety and reconsider nuclear energy as a sustainable energy source.
Now this vivid living model will surely help us imagine how other catastrophes really happened in earlier human history e.g at Alexandria in Egypt and Atlantis if Plato is right, somewhere below Spain in the Mediterranean sea.
Since the 2004 Indonesian Tsunami, I had a feeling that I have seen the worst but no, we had the 2010 Haiti earthquake, now the 2011 Japan Tsunami and yet the worst is yet to come..
Everyone now knows that whenever there is a Tsunami alert, huge waves of more than 2m high are about to hit the shores and every time we fear for those thousands of islands which are less than 2m high and are in the way of the coming waves. All the thousands maybe millions of people living on these islands are being ignored by the international community and are just waiting to be engulfed by any Tsunami which may arise. I guess this will be the next catastophe we will witness on live television - a whole island with all its inhabitants being engulf in a Tsunami à la Atlantis while the international community watch helplessly and tweets about it.
I am devastated!
