Japan (ii)

Hi everybody, today i will continue with the disasters in Japan. To be specific, i willl be discussing about one of the areas that were affected. Unfortunately, one of the areas affected, that we are all familiar with, in japan, in Tokyo Disneyland . THE car park at Tokyo Disneyland was drenched with water-logged segments from the ground following the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan's Pacific coast on Friday, police said.

It was earlier reported that a tsunami might have caused the inundation but police said the phenomenon was due to liquefaction of soil caused by the intense shaking of the tremor.There were 69,000 people at the Disneyland and the adjacent Tokyo Disney Sea, built on a landfill in Tokyo Bay, when the quake occurred, a spokesman at the local Urawa police station said.There were no injuries or property damage reported at the theme parks, he told AFP.

'The visitors have been evacuated to safe places but there are many puddles due to liquefaction around the theme parks,' he said.

Also, APAN'S devastating earthquake and tsunami last week have resulted in insured losses of between US$12 and US$25 billion (S$15.4 and S$32 billion), risk assessment firm EQECAT said on Wednesday.

EQECAT said the epic magnitude-9.0 quake that struck Japan on Friday and the ensuing massive tsunami were piling up 'significant losses' to the insurance industry.

'This loss estimate encompasses the effects of earthquake shaking, ensuing tsunami and fires, and losses to automobiles, marine, life, and personal accident insurance lines,' it said.

But the loss estimates did not include the developing nuclear crisis as Japan raced to prevent a catastrophe at quake-stricken nuclear plants.