10th anniversary of Great East Japan Earthquake

[TanteRose]

At 2:46pm, March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake hit the east coast of Japan, followed by a tsunami, which devastated vast areas.

More than 18,000 died because of this disaster, and many survivors were not able to return to their former homes.

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/11/three-stories-of-hope-10-years-on-from-japans-triple-disaster

The whole of Japan will be remembering today with a minute of silence at 2:46pm.

In remembrance

In remembrance.

Indeed a tragic event. The enormity of the event, the death toll and then the clear up afterwards were on a scale like nothing else I have experienced.

I was living in Tokyo at the time, and even there, several hundred km from the epicentre, this was by some margin the largest earthquake I experienced in my 10 years there.

In remembrance.