From ENS-
Archbishop Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu, primate of Nippon Sei Ko Kai (The Anglican Communion in Japan), said March 22 that while there are no Anglican churches in most of the areas affected by the March 11 magnitude-9 earthquake, "it is the NSKK's desire to stand with all people there and to do whatever we can to support them."
Uematsu's pledge came in a statement issued by Anglican Communion News Service.
More than 9,000 people died when the quake struck on March 11 and caused a destructive tsunami that pounded the country's northeast coast. In addition, nearly 13,000 people are unaccounted for. More than 300,000 people who are enduring hardship at various evacuation centers, the archbishop said, including those evacuated from the area near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.
The earthquake -- estimated to be at least 700 times more powerful than the magnitude-7 temblor that hit Haiti in January 2010 -- caused Japan's main island to move about eight feet to the east, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
"We Japanese are accustomed to earthquakes and tsunamis, however no one could have imagined that such a major earthquake or tsunami could have happened," Uematsu said.
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