Showing posts with label Japanese tsunami. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese tsunami. Show all posts

Monday, 20 August 2012

The Japanese Should Have Listened To Their Ancestors


Sadly numerous Japanese overlooked ancient markers left by their ancestors. In the hamlet of Aneyhshi, a centuries-old tablet saved many lives.

Carved on the stone slab is "High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants. Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point."

Only around twelve house owners took the advice seriously and their homes emerged unscathed from the horrendous tsunami of March 11th.

The earthquake, registering 9 on the Richter scale, was followed by a 10 metre tsunami, which killed 15,000 people, with 11,000 still missing. 

Along the Japanese coastline, that is situated on main fault lines, 100's of these markers formed a crude form

Ancestors Speak The Truth


Japanese's ancestors left ancient markers with dire warnings on them, tragically many of them ignored. In the hamlet of Aneyhshi, a centuries-old tablet saved many lives.

"High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants. Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point," was carved on the stone slab.

The earthquake, registering 9 on the Richter scale, on March 11th, was followed by a 10 metre tsunami that killed 15,000 people, with 11,000 still missing. Roughly a dozen householders had taken the ancestor's advice seriously and their homes emerged unscathed from the horrendous events. 

Hundreds of these markers are dotted all along the Japanese coastline, some more than 600 years old.

The Planet In Crisis


Late in 2008 things looked bad enough when the finance world experienced a universal melt down in the credit industry, with huge banking organizations tumbling. The resounding fall of the leaders echoed right around the earth, with aftershocks that lasted for years, as whole economies struggled to recover. Nature then seemed to want to have its say.

In the picturesque garden and second largest city in New Zealand, most people living in Christchurch, had never experienced even the smallest tremour in their lives, until the Darfield 7.1 magnitude quake of 4th September 2010, in a previously unknown fault line. Although the quake created widespread damage there was virtually no loss of life.

Numerous seismologists now say the 7.1 earthquake was comprised of three or four separate quakes. A 6.5