1. How long has this issue been going on for? This issue has been going on since the 11 march of 2011.

2. Who are the people/companies/political parties etc. involved in this event? The people that are involved with this are people all around the world. People like firefighters,army,people are giving in money for then and for charity. Many of the people in Japan are helping then self's they are already started on the cleaning.

3. Is this a local, state, national or global event? This is an state event because the earthquake happened in Japan only no were else and tsunami happened in Japan only it did go into California but not as much as in Japan.

4. How does this issue connect with the United States? With Spencerport? This connects with the U.S because earthquakes all around the world just like Japan has like in Haiti and Chili. This connects with Spencerport because the power plants in Japanare causing energy loss and a long time ago in Spencerport there was an power loss just like the one in Japan.