Double Blow for Japan

It was a threatening week for Japanese. On wednesday, there was a minor quake from then on the people were so tensed following the warning of a major earth quake. It all happened when the quake bombarded the Northern Japan by 14:46 local time. The earth quake was measured at 8.9 on the richter scale. After shocks was around 20 in just two hours. Strongest being around 7.4 on the richter scale occured after half an hour after the main shake.

Shock epicenter was located about 130 km off the east coast of the island of Honshu, and the hypocentre was at a depth of about 10 km.

Sendai, North Tokyo was afraid to be the terribly hit place by the quake. Following the quake, Tsunami warning was issued. Alongwith this Hawaai,Australia,Phillipines,Indonesia were also issued Tsunami warning. In few hours the most devastating thing occured, a 13 foot Tsunami hit the northern coasts of Japan and it was learnt that the damage is quite huge in terms of people,money and infrastructure. The Onagawa nuclear power plant caught fire added salt to the injury.

The death toll and the number injured are yet to be made public. But the Government has issued concerns saying that the death toll would be quite huge. The waves destroyed the surface of a dozen houses. Also flooded the runways at the airport in Sendai. This is the worst earthquake for 20 years – said Reuters correspondent in Tokyo.

UN said that 30 international rescue teams indicated their willingness to share.Japan's PM Naoto Kan has requested people to stay calm and gain strength to fight this natural disaster.

Japan has asked for U.S. assistance in the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that swept the country.

People along the coasts of Hawaii and west coasts breathed out a sigh of relief as a Tsunami with a 500MPH threatening to strike with a wave as tall as 9 foot high, just soaked the beaches which caused little damage and a few traffic jams.