Armageddon: The advent Of The Dead

Friday March 11th dawned like any other day in Japan. Japanese habitancy traditionally start their day early. The streets were crowded in the morning, habitancy rushing to work, catching appointments, meeting friends, windup business deals. Wrapping all the work while the last day of the week to look forward to a well deserved rest for the weekend.

And then it struck. At the starting it seemed like an commonplace rattle which the Japanese habitancy are used to as a part of their daily lives. Earthquakes are quite common in Japan and habitancy go about their business as usual even in the middle of severe earthquakes. As the magnitude and the period of this earthquake increased, habitancy soon realized that it was the "Death Rattle", the " Big One" as seismologists have been anticipating for some time. eventually it turned out to be the most noteworthy earthquake ever recorded in any place in the world since the time the measuring technologies came into use.

Nuclear Reactor

What unfolded was the ferocity and ugly wrath of nature. Whole buildings, office complexes, shopping malls, houses fell like pack of cards. It created craters so deep that finding inside them could not make you see the end of the depth. Homes were destroyed, habitancy trapped inside, shouting and crying for help and a scene of utter destruction all around.

What followed was ever more terrifying. A wall of water, 10 meters high (30feet) swept everything in front of it. Vehicles were tossed colse to like matchsticks, buildings floated and vanished as if they didn't exist, aero planes were swimming in the strong sweep of water current. Villages after villages, farms, industrial complexes, indeed, many a towns were washed away and everything submerged under murky water. The tsunami which swept the North Eastern Japan is opinion to be the singular biggest movement of a volume of water ever recorded in any place in the world. It left behind toppled automobiles, upside down houses and even brought huge package ships right inside the drawings rooms of homes, many tens of miles inland from the sea. "Shinkasen" the pride of Japan, its contribution to the world technology, went missing. In international parlance, it was like the vanishing of the Buckingham Palace, or the Eiffel Tower, or closer home the Taj Mahal.

24 hours passed and as the death and destruction mounted, Japan woke up to an even bigger catastrophe. Fukushima Power Plant saw its coiling law failing due to the earthquake, thereby construction up the pressure inside the nuclear reactor to unmanageable proportions. Scientists were worried, neighboring countries were scared and the world society feared of a repeat of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, when there was a nuclear meltdown. As I write this article, Iaea along with Japanese Nuclear scientists are doing everything possible to shut down this nuclear power plant but this is easier said than done.

Japan rose from the atomic bombings of 1945 to emerge as one of the most industrialized, thriving and developed nations, within a very short span of 65 years. As the death toll races towards 1,000,00 it must rise again to face this triple whammy which questions its very existence.

Armageddon: The advent Of The Dead