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Aerial footage reveals the wreckage of Sendai, Japan, two days after the town was devastated by a tsunami.
People evacuate by boat down a road flooded by tsunami waves in the Japanese city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on Saturday, a day after a massive quake and tsunami hit the region. Photo by Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images The death toll from the massive earthquake and tsunami that ...
Updated 4:15 p.m. ET | In a last-ditch effort to avert a nuclear meltdown, officials in Japan flooded a nuclear reactor with seawater on Saturday, the New York Times reported. Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, said Tokyo Electric Power workers also added boric acid to the ...
... a dock in Miyagi. According to Reuters, the World Nuclear Association, the main nuclear industry body, said on Friday that it understood the situation at Japan's Fukushima plant was under control. You can also follow live coverage from the BBC, New York Times, NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation), al Jazeera ...
... a lot of this, does it tell you anything about the preparations there? JIM HARRIS: Yes. I mean, I do think it proves that the Japanese have made lots of improvements over the years in their building standards for resisting earthquakes. They learned a lot, because they have had so ...
The earthquake off Japan's northeastern coast sparked a massive tsunami that kept coastal areas along the Pacific rim on high alert for the waves. Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. mainland braced for damage as the tsunami traveled across the Pacific. Spencer Michels reports from California on the tsunami ...
... time is very, very short, because the epicenter was about 80 miles offshore of Sendai, so they probably had about five to 10 minutes, maximum. JUDY WOODRUFF: Miyamoto says some seawalls have been built to help withstand tsunamis around Japan, but that the water hit where the walls were not.
... Earth map, overlaid with United States Geological Service data. The map will update at least every 30 minutes, showing new aftershocks as red circles. The Japanese Meteorological Agency has announced that Japan should expect to experience strong aftershocks for at least a month. This map requires the Google Earth browser ...
An 8.9-magnitude off of Japan's east coast triggered a 23-foot tsunami, sweeping away homes and cars and killing hundreds Friday. Dozens of ftershocks and a second, 6.6-magnitude quake north of Tokyo continued to rattle the country.
... the one off the coast of Japan Friday will likely be seventh-largest. But the biggest difference between the two is the level of preparedness. Japan, experts say, is probably the most prepared place in the world for a tsunami. "There's a reason we use a Japanese word to ...
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