Japan 2011: possibly one of the biggest disasters of my lifetime.

It is an unsettling yet truthful reality; to think that the California fault line can have and cause a larger earthquake and tsunami than the 8.9 caused in Japan on March 11th 2011.

Besides this fact, my sincere thoughts and  feelings go out to all the families of Japan, and to the government for having to put up with such a disaster and to face intense adversity.

The death toll has now, as of today, reached 13,843, a kind of rather large number that is scary to think about how one incident can leave many dead. More tolls and updates can be found at CNN.

I saw a commercial for a documentary of the disaster in Japan already coming out on The National Geographic later this month or early May. The film is a bunch of tapes compiled by Japanese people, just before, during and after disaster struck. Check it out at The Nation Geographic.

The damage was and has been devastating and the Japanese government should be in dissarry but have thus kept their "cool", literally, trying to keep the nuclear reactors cool and trying to have the least amount of radioactive exposure as possible. Citizens living near these reactors have been told to evacuate so the death toll does not rise and people are nto exposed.

The clean up has been and will be extremely trying for famliesand the government, but in my opinion Japan will make a swift recovery and get back on its feet in no time, whether or not it take a few years, without further disastrous events the country should be fine. They've recovered quickly in the past and they are an industrious and hard working country, I firmly believe things, although bad now, will turn out for them.