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DANIELLA VINCENT
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2011 THOKU EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI

ON MARCH 11, 2011, A MAGNITUDE-9 EARTHQUAKE SHOOK NORTHEASTERN

JAPAN, UNLEASHING A TSUNAMI.
THE NUMBER OF CONFIRMED DEATHS IS 15,891 AS OF APRIL 10, 2015,
ACCORDING TOJAPAN'S NATIONAL POLICE AGENCY. MOST PEOPLE DIED BY
DROWNING.
MORE THAN 2,500 PEOPLE ARE STILL REPORTED MISSING.
THE EFFECTS OF THIS ARE STILL SEEN TODAY
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THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI POWER PLANT HAD NOT BEEN BUILT TO WITHSTAND SUCH HIGH WAVES
AND THIS RESULTED IN A COOLING SYSTEM FAILURE, FOLLOWED BY A NUCLEAR REACTOR
MELTDOWN AND THE RELEASE OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS. TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY
(TEPCO) SAID 45 METRIC TONS OF RADIOACTIVE WATER HAD BEEN RELEASED INTO THE OCEAN.
IN THE YEAR FOLLOWING, JAPAN WAS HIT BY OVER 5,000 AFTERSHOCKS. IT WAS SO POWERFUL,
THAT IT SHIFTED EARTH ON ITS AXIS OF ROTATION AND CAUSED THE COASTLINE OF HONSHU, TO
DROP BY TWO FEET, AND MOVED THE MAIN ISLAND OF HONSHU EAST BY EIGHT FEET.
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THE COST OF THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI IS STILL ONGOING TO SOME

EXTENT. IT IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN THE MOST EXPENSIVE DISASTER IN
HISTORY, SO FAR AMOUNTING TO AN ESTIMATED $300BN (212BN). FURTHER TO
THIS, 45,700 BUILDINGS AND 230,000 VEHICLES WERE DESTROYED.
FARMS, FACTORIES, ROADS, RAILWAYS AND ELECTRICITY LINES WERE DESTROYED,
WHILE ALMOST HALF A MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MADE HOMELESS. DESPITE
THE DESTRUCTION, MANY JAPANESE PEOPLE HOPE THE RECONSTRUCTION EFFORT
MIGHT TURN OUT TO HELP THE JAPANESE ECONOMY.
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BOTH DURING AND AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE, MANY AIDS AND FUNDING
PROJECTS APPEARED TO HELP THOSE WITHIN JAPAN TO RECEIVE FUNDING
FOR NEW BUILDINGS AND ALSO TO GO TOWARDS HOMELESS SHELTERS.
POPULAR EXAMPLES OF AIDS THAT HELPED THE TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE THAT
INTERESTED ME WERE: AMERICAN ROCK BAND, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
RELEASED A SING IT FOR JAPAN SINGLE WITH ALL PROCEEDS GOING TO
THE JAPAN AID AND ALSO THE SHOW YOUR HEART FUND FOUNDED BY
JAPANESE SINGER GACKT. THESE LEAD ME TO CARE ABOUT THE EVENT.
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION I EMBRACED
INTERNET
THE INTERNET IS GENERALLY DEFINED ASA GLOBALNETWORKCONNECTING MILLIONS
OFCOMPUTERS.
ACCORDING TOINTERNET LIVE STATS, AS OF AUGUST 12TH 2016 THERE WAS AN ESTIMATED
3,432,809,100 INTERNET USERS WORLDWIDE.
THE NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS REPRESENTS NEARLY 40 PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S
POPULATION.
NEARLY ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE ON THE INTERNET, WITH BILLIONS OF NEW THINGS TO BE
DISCOVERED
ITS ONE OF THE BIGGEST TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES AND IS ONE OF THE MAIN WAYS THAT
PEOPLE COMMUNICATE IN MODERN DAY
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THE INTERNET HAS BROUGHT MANY PEOPLE TOGETHER, WHICH IS ONE OF

THE MAIN REASONS WHY I EMBRACE IT TO THIS DAY.
IF NOT FOR THE INTERNET, WE WOULDNT BE ABLE TO FIND FRIENDS FROM
ALL OVER TO SHARE INTERESTS OR COMMUNICATION WITH, WE WOULDNT
BE ABLE TO FIND NEW MEDIAS AND PASSIONS, OR LEARN THE LATEST NEWS
UPDATES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD IN SUCH A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.
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DEVELOPED A COMPANY CALLED HAMMER & CHISEL, DISCORD IS ONE OF

THE BIGGEST PLATFORMS IN WHICH PC GAMERS CAN CHAT AND
COMMUNICATE ONLINE.
THE SERVICE WAS POPULARIZED BYESPORTSANDLAN
TOURNAMENTGAMERS.
THERE ARE OVER 25 MILLION USERS ON THE PLATFORM.
THIS APP HAS BECOME THE MAIN THING I USE TO COMMUNICATE WITH MY
FRIENDS, AS IT ALLOWS US TO CREATE PRIVATE SERVERS AND CHANNELS
WHERE WE CAN BOTH TEXT AND VOICE CHAT TO ONE ANOTHER WHILST
PLAYING GAMES OR JUST FOR FUN.
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SCREENSHOT SOME OF MY PRIVATE SERVERS WHERE I MAINLY COMMUNICATE

WITH MY FRIENDS:
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SOME FEATURES OF DISCORD:
List of
users in
the Server
Text Channel
This is where those
in the server can
Voice Chat text and chat to
Channel each other

Servers
that you
join
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