Even though Tokyo was several hundred kilometers from the earthquakes’s epicenter off the Northeastern (Tohoku) Japanese coast, it was a helluva shake for about two minutes.
Nearly two weeks later many people in the Tohoku region are still severely affected – by both the visible damage and destruction, as well as by the invisible impact of airborne radioactivity.
Japan has been assailed by multiple natural disasters throughout recorded history. This one is bad enough, without the unfolding nuclear disaster.
So far, the problem looks as if it’s being contained to an area well north of Tokyo but low level radiation contamination in some water and food supplies is a major concern for many people in a metropolis of 39 million people across the Kanto region.
Here’s a post I wrote about the effects of the earthquake in Tokyo, around 2:46 pm on Friday 11 March, 2011.
- Mark McClure
Tokyo, Japan
