Japan sits on a subduction zone, which is where one plate is being forced beneath another. It is also at the meeting point of two pieces of the giant Pacific plate, which are moving in different directions along side each other. Japan hardly goes through a day without a minor or minuscule tremor or quake. Each year there are only a small amount of earthquakes that actually have a structural or devastating effect on a certain location. The strongest earthquake to hit Japan was in Tokyo and Yokohama on September 1, 1923. More than one-hundred and thirty-thousand people were killed do t the structural damage and the fires that were caused by the quake. Thousands of homes were crumbled to pieces, and many homes were burned

to the ground due to the relative closeness of the houses, and the fact that they were made out of wood. The earthquake caused so much damaging fire that tornado like winds were caused and many people died of suffocation. More recent earthquakes are deadly also, but now most of the homes and buildings are constructed to handle the quakes. Japan actually has skyscrapers that can tolerate large earthquakes. These high rises actually were designed by engineers to have shocks built in at the base of the building to absorb to rumbling effect of an earthquake. Japan is an extraordinary place to live if you can handle the pressure or fear of living through the chance of an earthquake everyday of your life.

The third act of nature that is discussed is typhoons (or hurricanes in the Atlantic). Typhoons are known as one of the tropical cyclones that has a wind speed of more than150 mph. There are around 30 typhoons per year. Typhoons are one of the worst natural disasters that bring a big amount of damage and loss to their human life. Typhoon season comes at the end of September and the beginning of October in Japan. Typhoons bring heavy rains over wide areas which can cause floods and gale winds which damage houses and forest resources. One odd characteristic is that the Japanese do not name their typhoons after people like Floyd or Isabel. They characterize

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