Natural disaster

Natural Disaster
Earthquake in Japan

In 16 july 2007,monday at about 11.55 am,a 6.8 magnitude tremor struck Japan in Niigate area.Hundreds of people were injured badly.There were seven deaths in the city of Kashiwazaki.Four women and 3 men,aged between seventy to eighty,died from severe injuries.
Two thousand people have evacuated,older building which most of them were wooden houses or houses that have heavy tile roofs,appeared to have suffered the most damaged during the earthquake which has also cracked roads and buckled bridges.The hospitals were fulled with people that have suffered injures during the earthquake.A resident described the moments the earthquake hits.He said that it was so strong that people hardly could stand on their feets and so people got hide under the table while others ran out of their house.
The violent shaking lasted for 20 seconds.Earthquakes are very common in Japan as Japan was situated in one of the most seismically active area.Three years ago,the earthquake hit the same area.left 65 people dead while another earthquake hit the city of Kobe in 1995, killing more than sixty-five thousand of people.