Japan soon to be new Atlantis

Over the holiday break, a terrible natural disaster occurred. On March 11, 2011, Japan was hit with an earthquake tsunami. This was devastating because the amount of damage the occurred was large enough that the price to fix the problems was questioned to be around 14-35 billion dollars. The earthquake that hit was the highest earthquake to be recorded in Japan reaching a magnitude of 8.9 of the rector scale. This is the sixth most powerful earthquake to ever be recorded. After the earthquake, a giant tsunami was made. This tsunami swept up villages and houses almost instantly with waves reaching as high as 23ft on shore. With all the damage done, Japan was headed for the worst with a nuclear reactor (Fukushima) being damaged releasing large amounts of radiation. Since then there is a death toll of 1800 people and about 10,000 missing.