Read the text and complete the sentences with the given phrases

• disaster-resilient
• grief and sorrow
• struck by 5 to 15-meter waves
• rely on seawalls
• countermeasures
• relocated to higher ground
• piled up to create evacuation areas

After the giant tsunami hit Japan in 2011, many cities decided to promote [ ] urban development. After overcoming [ ], people started thinking much about different ways to protect themselves from future disasters. Numerous coastal cities, which had been [ ], constructed kilometres of high-quality breakwaters while the other decided not to [ ]. They took different tsunami [ ] instead. The dormitory suburbs and the most important facilities were [ ]. In some locations the original ground surface was raised by several metres. For this purpose, soil was taken from the mountains and then [ ].