Out At Sea

Jessica V.

Period 2

May 3, 2012 

Out At Sea

                  

          Once graduated high school, at age 18 my brother decided to join the Navy. In 2011 he left to work at sea for 6 months. On his way back he decided to get off In Hawaii instead of in Seattle where he lived. He called his wife to meet him there so they can spend some time. They had already met up there when they herd loud tsunami sirens so they asked what was going on and that’s when they found out there was a tsunami in Japan and they were alerting several other coasts. Rowen and Mcniff stated that, “according to the official toll, the disaster left 15,839 dead, 5,950 injured, and 3,642 missing.” That is a lot of disaster for Japan thank God it didn’t reach Hawaii where my brother was. According to the website, “Japan was hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11,2011, that triggered a deadly 23 foot tsunami in the country’s north.” That was a really big wave that hit that’s why there was so much disaster and then the shake was of a big magnitude. People really believe a tsunami could hit in a lot of other coast too. For around a whole day there was tsunami alerts in most parts of the coast as indicated Rowen and Mcniff, “ The pacific tsunami warning center issued warnings for Russia, Taiwan, Hawaii, Indonesia, The Marshall islands, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the west coasts of the. U.S., Mexico, Central America, and south America.” So Many places had the alert but good thing nothing happened anywhere else. When the Alert was over my brother gave us a call to let us know they were fine and they were going to enjoy themselves. They got really worried because while they were there the kids were with my sister in Law’s mom in the Island of Oak Harbor, Washington, where they lived.

Works Cited:

Mcniff, Catherine, Rowen, Beth.Tsunami In Japan 2011.Infoplease.March 2011.March 2012.web