Tsunami: One of the effects of a massive earth quake. It makes you want to live on a mouontain instead of at the beach. With tremors ghoing as far as Tokyo, this one makes history,
Here is breaking news including a video from Malcolm Foster, Associated Press.
"The entire Pacific had been put on alert — including coastal areas of South America, Canada and Alaska — but waves were not as bad as expected... Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeastern coastal city of Sendai, the city in Miyagi prefecture, or state, closest to the epicenter. Another 137 were confirmed killed, with 531 people missing. Police also said 627 people were injured...The magnitude-8.9 offshore quake unleashed a 23-foot (seven-meter) tsunami and was followed for hours by more than 50 aftershocks, many of them of more than magnitude 6.0..."
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