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Tsunami-hit towns forgot warnings from ancestors !
MIYAKO, Japan
Modern sea walls failed to protect coastal towns
from Japan destructive tsunami last month. But in
the hamlet of Aneyoshi, a single centuries-old tablet saved the day.
" High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants,"
The stone slab reads.
"Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis.
Do not build any homes below this point."
It was advice the dozen or so households of Aneyoshi heeded, and their
homes emerged unscathed from a disaster that flattened low-lying
communities elsewhere and killed thousands along Japan northeastern
shore.
Hundreds of such markers dot the coastline, some more than 600 years old.
Collectively they form a crude warning system for Japan, whose long
coasts along major fault lines have made it a repeated target of
earthquakes and tsunamis over the centuries.
The markers don't all indicate where it,s safe to build.
Some simply stand or stood, washed away by the tsunami as daily reminders
of the risk.
"If an earthquake comes, beware of tsunamis"
reads one. In the bustle of modern life, many forgot.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/Tsunami-
hit_towns_forgot_warnings_from_ancestors.html
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We will show them within themselves and on the horizons, that it is the truth. Qur'an 99- Zilzal, the Quake
