Mar 13 Watch The Aftermath of the Tsunami in Sendai, Japan Aerial footage reveals the wreckage of Sendai, Japan. Continue watching
Mar 13 Death Toll Climbs in Japan as Nuclear Threat Grows By News Desk 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… Continue reading
Mar 12 Explosion Rocks Japanese Nuclear Power Plant in Quake’s Aftermath By News Desk 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… Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch Japan Reels From Tsunami, Quake: Did Preparations Work? Japan Reels From Tsunami, Quake: Did Preparedness Work?… Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch U.S. Pacific Rim on High Alert After Japan Quake Triggers Tsunami Along U.S. West Coast, Tsunami Warnings Heeded Amid Some Damage… Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch Despite Colossal Quake and Tsunami, Life in Japan ‘Particularly Orderly’ After Colossal Quake, Tsunami, Life in Japan 'Particularly' Orderly… Continue watching
Mar 11 View Live Aftershock Activity in Japan By Travis Daub Aftershocks continue to rock cities across Japan after an 8.9-magnitude struck off the country's east coast. To see a live view of seismic activity in the region we created a Google Earth map, overlaid with… Continue reading
Mar 11 Japan ‘the Most Prepared Place in the World’ for a Tsunami By Lea Winerman For many viewers, the photos and video from Japan Friday brought back images of the 2004 tsunami disaster in Indonesia -- debris-clogged water flooding streets, sweeping away houses and leaving destruction behind. The earthquake and the resulting tsunami in… Continue reading
Mar 11 Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami: How They Happened By Jenny Marder The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck coastal Japan on Friday, devastating large swaths of the coast and spawning a powerful tsunami, was caused by the Pacific tectonic plate thrusting underneath the country, and forcing the seabed and ocean water upward. Continue reading
Mar 11 In News Conference, Obama Addresses Disaster in Japan, Oil Prices, Libya By News Desk In a news conference Friday afternoon, President Obama called the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan a "catastrophic disaster," adding that images of the aftermath have been "heartbreaking." The president said he spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan early… Continue reading