Dear Editor of The Straits Times,
In accordance to the recent Japan earthquake and the tsunami, I feel that Japan has done a very good job in response to the earthquake and tsunami. The authorities were acting very fast to rescue the vistims after the situation was calm, the earthquake was gone and the waves have stopped crashing in.
From the fact that Japan was shocked by the happening of the magnitude 9 earthquake, as they never expected it to be as strong as 9 magnitudes. We as Singaporeans can learn that a disaster may strike any time, even if there have never been a natural disaster in Singapore, that does not mean there would not be one happening soon or in the far future.
However hard we deny, we still have no way to cover up the fact that we are a very small country. So if we may encounter the same situation, handling it would not be easy. Firstly, our citizens if struck by a earthquake would have very little or no space to escape it. We are surrounded by water, so if a tsunami strikes, it would be almost impossible to escape.
Singaporeans should never become complacent of the fact that we are protected by the shores our neighbouring countries as anything might happen when we least expected it.
Thank You.
Yours Sincerely,
Yeo Eng Chow
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