One week after the disaster in Japan
Chișinău / Moldova.ORG/ -- One week ago today, Japan had to face the biggest disaster of it’s contemporary history.
A 9.0 magnitude earthquake has occured in Japan and a devastating tsunami has hit the North-Eastern coast, the calamities being followed by the nuclear crisis – continuous blasts at Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
Until this moment, Japanese authorities raised the severity level of radiation from 4 to 5 points on a 7 points international scale for nuclear accidents – this meaning the gravity of the accident is two levels behind the Cernobyl disaster in 1986.
According to the latest balances, 6,405 people are dead and about 10,200 are missing until this moment. In addition, millions of people have been left without water, food, fuel and electricity and during the night there was a heavy snowfall that has been embarrassing the rescue of anyone else form wreckage. Another hundreds of thousands are left homeless.
A minute of silence was kept today by the entire population of Japan due to one week after the disaster.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan assured his nation that the situation will be solved as soon as possible: "We will rebuild Japan from scratch. We must all share this resolve."
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