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14,000 Lives Lost... Never To Be Brought Back She was trapped in her house’s ruins for **nine** days before being rescued by a helicopter. She spent five days recovering in a hospital. Now, she is staying with relatives and searching for food, medicine, friends, and relatives (“Japan’s survivor”). Sumi Abe said afterward, “Everybody is in a different place now than they were before. I’m fine, but my hands and legs still ache, and my nerves are not so good. Imagine experiencing a tsunami like that at my age. I’m lucky not to be stuck in a shelter” (Abe). On March 11, 2011, the worst earthquake that ever struck Japan shook everyone’s lives. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake ranked as the 5th largest earthquake ever (“2011 Earthquake”). Experts were expecting a 7.5, nothing near the extremely powerful earthquake that caught Japan off-guard. This caused a tsunami that tore apart every life in its path, never to be completely fixed. The earthquake inJapan has been the most damaging earthquake in the world because of the number of people who were killed or are now homeless – even though Japan was extremely well prepared, the devastating tsunami it caused afterward, and the nuclear disaster that is affecting so many lives.

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