TSUNAMI JAPAN 2011

On 11th Mac 2011, the day i'm leaving for semester break, world was shocked by Tsunami tragedy in Japan. Japan was strucked by a 8.9 magnitude earthquake from Japan that results into a giant killer Tsunami that washed away anything on his way either house, vehicles or civilians were destroyed. The tsunami is about 13 meters in height started from the coast of Oshika.
 

The 8.9 magnitude quake caused many injuries. It sparked fires and the wall of water, prompting warnings to people to move to higher ground in coastal areas.
The Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia all issued tsunami alerts, reviving memories of the giant tsunami which struck Asia in 2004. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued alerts for countries to the west and across the Pacfici as far away as Colombia and Peru.
There were several strong aftershocks. In Tokyo, buildings shook violently. An oil refinery near the city was on fire, with dozens of storage tanks under threat. In Tokyo four million homes are without power. A hotel collapsed in the city of Sendai and people were feared buried in the rubble.
Stunning TV footage showed the tsunami carrying the debris and fires across a large swathe of coastal farmland near the city of Sendai, which has a population of one million. The pictures suggested the death toll was going to rise.
Sendai is 300 km (180 miles) northeast of Tokyo and the epicentre at sea was not far away.
The Friday quake was the biggest since 1872, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. It surpasses the Great Kanto quake of Sept. 1, 1923, which had a magnitude of 7.9, killed more than 140,000 people in the Tokyo area. Seismologists had said another such quake could strike the city any time. The 1995 Kobe quake caused $100 billion in damage and was the most expensive natural disaster in history. Economic damage from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was estimated at about $10 billion.

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