Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011 by https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm Made with ♥ en-us 2018-04-25 08:58:39 UTC 2018-05-02 09:11:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Send.png 16rlittlewood https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/255147285 Fukushima nuclear power plant ]]> 2018-04-25 09:35:52 UTC https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/255147285 16tsmith https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/255147530 The 65-year old had just undergone surgery for prostate cancer and was recuperating when the walls of his 6th floor room began to shake. Medical equipment came crashing to the floor. 
For almost six minutes on March 11, 2011, the 9.0 magnitude earthquake — the worst to ever hit Japan — rocked the country. 
The quake was so strong that it permanently moved Japan's main island, Honshu, more than two meters to the east. The impact also raised huge waves up to 40 meters high that, as people were still reeling from the aftershocks, began crashing into the country.
]]> 2018-04-25 09:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/255147530 16rlittlewood https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/256224528 With an onslaught of cold winter weather following the disaster, the first shipment of a $1.1 million donation of Gap brand winter clothing was distributed to tens of thousands of recipients in Miyagi, Fukushima and Iwate.]]> 2018-04-28 13:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/256224528 16rlittlewood https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/256224590 focusing its long-term efforts on a recovery project in Ofunato, a coastal city located in Iwate Prefecture. The project will focus on the needs of the elderly community in this tsunami-impacted city.]]> 2018-04-28 13:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/256224590 16rlittlewood https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/256224691 As local economies still struggle in Japan’s coastal towns affected by the March earthquake and tsunami, World Vision focuses on assisting children and revitalizing the crippled fishing industry.]]> 2018-04-28 13:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/256224691 16tsmith https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/257158438 Earthquakes don't kill people. People's houses in the midst of earthquakes kill people. Look at the statistics or the photography and you'll know that the vast majority of fatalities from earthquakes large or small come from buildings, or parts of buildings, falling on people.]]> 2018-05-02 09:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/257158438 16tsmith https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/257158566 Man-made disasters such as nuclear attacks and the Fukushima disaster have had an effect too. "Detachment from the illusion of physical permanence seems a very sensible approach to architecture," she concludes.]]> 2018-05-02 09:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/257158566 16tsmith https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/257158639 These dangers combined with hefty inheritance tax and rapidly updating technology has led to a building culture known as "scrap and build." Rather than renovate, remodel or re-use, the Japanese have long favored simply knocking down and starting again. It is the land of the disposable building, where a 20-year-old home is considered old.]]> 2018-05-02 09:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/16rlittlewood/ob5mq1tjmvm/wish/257158639