After the Quake: Haruki Murakami

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Descriptions at the end explain that Norway has the most seismic activity north of the Alps, and that a major earthquake is expected to hit Norway in the coming future, but it is unknown when it will hit.

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Streets are sealed off and the police are doing their best to manage the traffic, amid a cacophony of moped horns. This change of consciousness is the subject of After the Quake, in which Murakami's fiction retains its imaginative integrity while putting on a more consoling and public face. Kristian lives in seclusion high above the mostly-rebuilt Geiranger, while his family moves to Oslo, where Idun works at the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel. Around midnight, they go down to see Miyake, a middle-aged man living alone on the coast who has built yet another bonfire.

Pictures show survivors being pulled from the rubble in Turkey's Hatay province, which sits immediately south of earthquakes' epicentres. Each of these stories, as their collective title suggests, takes place in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake, but because none of them is directly linked to it, they allow Murakami to examine its effects obliquely, from within his own infinitely nuanced metaphysical world. All God's Children Can Dance") is a collection of six short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, written between 1999 and 2000.

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After 10 years, Christchurch is no longer, first and foremost, an earthquake-damaged city – but progress to this point has been slow and hard-won. The One Central development is central to the blueprint’s bid to increase the residential population of central Christchurch – but sales got off to a slow start, prompting concern that construction may be outpacing demand. The next morning, when Idun leaves for work and Sondre goes to University of Oslo, Marit discovers a video on her father's computer and shows it to Kristian. Medical student Aylin Pulat couldn't get hold of several members of her family, including her parents, after the earthquake struck.It comes at a time when Turkey has suggested blocking Sweden's push to join Nato over Sweden's refusal to extradite dozens of people allegedly tied to Kurdish militant groups.

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I couldn't even begin to explain why I find it quite so moving and, in a sense, that's Murakami's magic. There have already been several aftershocks following the current earthquake and scientists are anticipating it may well follow the same trend as the 1822 tragedy. His wife, an unattractive yet fulfilling woman, leaves him after five days of blankly watching the news about the earthquake, saying that living with him is like living with "a chunk of air.A panel news programme on a northern Syria-based TV station has painted a bleak picture of the situation there. After Sala's second birthday, Junpei learns that Takatsuki cheated on Sayoko with a co-worker, an affair that started before Sala was born; the two divorce months later.

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Murakami isn't interested (or if he is, he doesn't show it in his fiction) in what earthquakes actually are, or in what causes them. In "All God's Children can Dance" Yoshiya is the son of a woman who found religion (and is, during the story, down in Kansai helping with the earthquake relief). Every now and then I get to see the city through the eyes of people who are visiting here for the first time in a long time, and hear their excitement about … what it’s becoming,” says Dalziel.

After he finishes dancing, he kneels on the pitcher's mound and feels the wind dance around him and says aloud, "Oh God. That evening, while transferring between subway lines to get home, he sees a man in his mid-fifties who has a missing earlobe and decides to follow him surreptitiously. The response effort to the earthquake could take years due to the level of devastation, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said.