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The strongest earthquake of the last 140 years in Japan

Friday at 2:46 pm. in the Japanese time zone, 2.46 am in the time zone in Argentina, was the strongest quake that this country has lived in the last 140 years and is one of the five major earthquakes in the world.

With a 8.9-magnitude higher than that hit the northeastern coast of the island of Honshu. surpassing the Kanto earthquake of 7.8 degrees on the Richter scale that struck Tokyo in 1923 killed 140,000 people and 100 times more potent than the Hanshin Earthquake, which struck the city in 1995 causing 6,502 deaths in Kobe

.- The earthquake originated in the coastal city of Sendai as a result of force released the northeast coast suffered nippon minutes later, a tsunami with waves ten feet high. This warning was extended by 50 countries of the Pacific Ring of Fire .-

Sendai surrounding areas, especially agricultural land and the airport sercanos, were also under water. The nearby city of Kesennuma, of 70,000, was engulfed in flames .-

In Tokyo, the huge buildings ranged hard for a few minutes as employees took to the streets. The force of the earthquake turned the antenna Tokyo Tower .-
rail service in northeastern Japan and Tokyo, which normally carry hundreds of thousands of people a day, were suspended, leaving them stranded at stations or wandering through the streets while Narita and Haneda airports were forced to close temporarily.
In general there are several places to cut electricity and gas, the cell phone lines collapsed for several hours, and communications were restricted to using the Internet through the wireless phones themselves, mainly from the so-called "Smart Phone" that not only provided access to email, but to social networks where the exchange of information.

Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, described as "major" damage caused by the earthquake and created a task force to address the emergency situation. Also known to have called U.S. aid , union Europe and China. Some countries have already offered to collaborate, as Latin American countries like Argentina and Brazil .-

Japanese officials warned about the risk of nuclear accidents at two plants in the northeast power Fukushima 1 and 2 after the strong earthquake that struck the region. A thousand times the level of radioactivity than normal was detected in the control room of reactor number one central Fukushima 1.

In Japan there are about 4,500 Argentines about living in this country, the information I read all were located and are safe .-

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I wish everyone the best Japanese people of the wave that can overcome this natural disaster .-

Credits: el-national week bbc