3rd~ news summary and my opinion

 

・Summary

 

On February 27^th, 2010, a big earthquake hit Chile and at least 214 people were killed by it. The magnitude of the earthquake was 8.8, and tsunami reached even Hawaii like another gigantic earthquake in Chile in 1950. Due to the damage to infrastructure, rescues have difficulty  getting to stricken areas.

The President declared it’s the state of the catastrophe. Although Obama, the US President stated US will help Chile, victims were suffering from aftershocks. Considering these damages, it may be the time to face the fact that Chile is no strong against the earthquake.

 

 

・My opinion

 

Considering the fact that this article was written a year before the Japanese big earthquake, 3.11, this might tell us what would happen in Japan the sooner the later. Although many earthquakes take place in Chile, it hadn’t worked on rebuilding the city which is strong against an earthquake. And perhaps, the same thing can be applied to Japan because it is often said that Tokyo is one of the weakest cities against it. In order not to remake the same mistake, I think we always need to keep in mind that an earthquake can occur anytime and anywhere and learn from the past disaster.

I also recognized how impotent we are against the nature. According to the article, the government and the supporters from all over the world were trying to help them. However, the broken roads and chaos among the people troubled them a lot. What’s more, I was very surprised that tsunami caused by this earthquake hit even Hawaii (it was reported that there was no damage in Hawaii though). Despite of the advance in technology, there’s still no way but to obey the nature.

This news was pretty shocking, but we need to learn from this. I hope there won’t be any disaster any more, but I’ll prepare for the next one which shall come someday for the sake of my life.  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8540289.stm