Thursday 31 March 2011

Helping the Victims of Great Tohoku Earthquake


Academia Humana Foundation has joined the fund rasing events in Hungary. We have been active in donation, organizing events/lectures and collecting funds. The civil organizations already could collect over 10 million HUF, which has been used for school building reconstruction.

Helping the victims of Tohoku catastrophe

Friday 11 March 2011

Earthquake in Mashiko


11th of March at 14:46 an earthquake intensity 6th (very strong) on the Japanese scale hit Mashiko

The Spring Exhibition, the first one organized by Wagner Nándor Foundation was cancelled due to the damages of the strong earthquake in Japan.
The almost five minute earthquake caused substantial damages to the city's ceramic industry and large volume of stock was broken in the shops. For the broken ceramic pieces the city allocated a dumping site.
In the buildings of the foundation there were some damages also. Among the art pieces one statue - Lao Tse - was fallen down, few terracotta were broken and the statue of Prince Shotoku turned with its massive pedestal together circa 15 degrees.

Hill of broken Mashiko ceramics
From: Facebook Tohoku daijishin Mashiko machi (one of 11 photos)