¶ … pictures can speak louder than words, and this is clear in the photo entitled "U.S. Navy: An aerial view of damage to Wakuya, Japan after a 9 magnitude tsunami." The photo initially looks like picture of a tiny child's toy boat, which is floating in a muddy sea of debris. The boat looks brave and cheery, as it floats amidst the muck, garbage, and flotsam and jetsam of people's belongings. However, the first, deceptive glance of the photograph quickly ebbs away as the viewer becomes aware that he or she is bearing of witness to one of the greatest human tragedies to strike a nation, as a result of a natural disaster, in the 21st century. The photograph highlights the smallness and vulnerability of the human condition in the face of epic destruction beyond human control.
Japan's long national nightmare began when an 8.9-magnitude earthquake, the "fifth-largest recorded since 1900" hit the nation in 2011 (Naik 2011). It was the largest quake to strike Japan in over three centuries. An earthquake alone can be devastating, as was seen in the Haitian quake which was 1,000 smaller times in intensity than the Japanese event. And the Japanese quake generated a tsunami, due to the fact that the quake occurred "where shards of the earth's crust -- tectonic plates -- meet. Magma rises from deep inside the Earth, causing the plates to move. They slide past each other but sometimes get stuck. When they jerk forward again, they can trigger a quake," as transpired when the Pacific plate slid beneath the Eurasian plate (Naik 2011). "The jerking motion of one plate moving under the other caused a massive uplift of the seafloor, convulsing an area almost 200 miles long and 50 miles wide" (Naik 2011). The effects of the tsunami were felt as far away as California. The earthquake and tsunami were followed by a meltdown at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, causing a "triple catastrophe" which was called "Japan's greatest crisis since World War II" and ultimately left"23,000 people dead or missing and caused more than $300 billion in damage" (Harlan 2012).
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