Japan anti-earthquake civil engineering
Early this year, there was a big scale earthquake that hit Japan, resulting massive damages to the nation. Many provinces and major cities were hit by the massive earthquake with a lot of public destructions as well as human deaths. Besides that, with Japan being a nation which uses nuclear power, a number of nuclear plants were drastically disrupted in its works and there were leaks in the nuclear plants. Panic ensured and the citizens of Japan were in shock and terror.
However, few months after the series of earthquakes occurred in the country, Japan has steadily rebuilding itself. Properties that were severely damaged by the earthquakes were quickly repaired. Nuclear radiations were contained as quickly as the rumors associated with it. The people of Japan, while still in mourn, are moving forwards in helping the nation back to its former glory.
If such a massive earthquake were to hit another country with a lot of nuclear plants, chances are the nation would be in doom. However, thanks to the advanced technology in Japan, nothing catastrophic occurred. It is an amazement at how strong Japan is as a nation and a country. The government of Japan realized that it being a nation within the rings of fire would be on constant fear of being hit by tsunamis or earthquakes. Therefore, a lot of research and development projects were being done to improve the technology.
The Japanese also realized how important it is to be good at civil engineering and a lot of them ventured into the anti-earthquake civil engineering program with the hope of helping their beloved country from being in a terrible state of destruction. It is also these skills in civil engineering that saved the nation from a more terrible fate that could land on the country. Instead of the minimal damages that they had, it might be much worse should their technologies were of little advancement.
We should all look up to Japan at how it has braced the terror that had hit them and managed to come out of it with grace and minimal damages. Nothing but amazement should be showered to this Asian country.