Today is a rainy day, cold, late winter for those in which people only do we want lazy on the couch, wrapped in a blanket. If you have not done that more time is because I work. But when I started in the afternoon to write something I thought you could only do the earthquake in Japan.
turns out that yesterday March 11, there was an earthquake 8'9 degrees about 200 km off the coast of Japan, 10 km underground, with many aftershocks and subsequent tsunami that has caused thousands of deaths, an untold devastation of proportions and a nuclear alarm that we can get in to. They say it is the seventh order of magnitude from that measured seïsmes.
The live images of the tsunami, watching as five kilometers of seawater progressed slowly but unstoppable, are frightening. See the devastating power of the water gets like boats and houses and buildings folded like paper. Hundreds of cars washed with terrifying ease. And then in decline, take it away March endintre everything, leaving ships and six storey building in the middle of streets and, in general, a desolate.
Obviously, Japan has requested international aid to cope with millions of losses that take years to recover. Unfortunately all this great two things caught my attention.
First, the discipline with which the population fit the earthquake and subsequent actions. A population that is aware of its geographical position on the geologically located two steps from a cold area of \u200b\u200btwo tectonic plates. And who decided to live there, have taken all constructive measures that could have then been prepared to address them in a very disciplined. This result is one part of their culture, but otherwise we have also shown the ability of mankind to adapt to circumstances. So we got here.
Second, see how a disaster affects a country in the developed world. Today we are accustomed to see almost real-time tsunami sweeping the sea of \u200b\u200bshacks Indonèssia such as water devastates favelas in Brazil or a drought affecting some countries of Africa. But when it hits New Zealand and Japan, countries that are equal or more developed than us, especially the Japanese, prepared for such eventualities, we in the West do more echo and rediscover who are nothing, that our vulnerability is high.
The greatest earthquake in history, since they are measured, occurred in Chile in 1960, and watching the reactions of those days that I hardly devotes a column, much more concerned in who was world champion in boxing and, of course, the fifth consecutive European Cup baggage official regime. Certainly, new technologies have democratized the Internet.
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