Showing 1 area where the earth moved and left a gaping crack. |
Last week there was a terrible earthquake in Japan. The earthquake was an 8.9 on the Richter scale. I have lived in California most of my life up until 12 years ago when we moved so I was used to earthquakes. But the worst one I ever remember was when I was 30 years old. It was my birthday and we were woken up by the swaying of the house and the noise of the glass doors crashing together. We all jumped from our beds screaming and ran to the appointed place; our doorways of our house, supposedly the safest places to hide because they would be strongest during a quake.
Cars and airplanes literally littering the place. |
Homes displaced and on fire. |
One shot of the tsunami that engulfed the areas. |
Massive earthquake and tsunami destruction |
Water whirl pooling and destroying. |
Part of the airport left destroyed. |
magnitude those 72 hour kits would be a drop in the bucket of what would be needed to survive what difficulties they are facing over there in some of the worst areas of all. I hope and pray that they are comforted by their families, by being together as communities, and by their faith and anything else that helps them along the way. God bless them all.
I remember that museum! That earthquake thing was awesome! I hope they didn't get rid of it.
ReplyDeleteSo I looked into the whole richter scale thing, and going up one point means multiplying the earthquake by 10. That means a 7 is 10 times more powerful than a 6. And a 9 is 100 million time as powerful as a 1. Dang.