Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami

Satellite: The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft captured an image of the northeastern Japan coastal cities of Ofunato and Kesennuma, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) northeast of Sendai. This region was significantly affected by the tsunami that followed the March 11, 2011, magnitude 9.0 earthquake centered offshore about 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Sendai.
Power: Stretching into the distance, waves caused by the tsunami pour over the coastline and rush inland swamping all before them. As the seawater passes over the land it mixes with the soil and begins to change colour to a dark brown.
Helpless: A ship, dwarfed by the sheer size of the whirlpool, is drawn ever closer towards the vortex as is tossed about in the foaming waters off the port of Oarai, Ibaraki.
Menacing: While the sea looks calm near the coast, a huge wave gathers momentum in the distance, and the foam and spray provide an idea of its ferocity.
Chaos: A man wearing a helmet picks his way carefully though the rubble while cars are shown gridlocked in either direction in Sendai.
Caved in: In the aftermath of the biggest earthquake in Japan's history, workers survey the huge hole in the middle of a road in Satte.
Emotional: Two visibly shaken young Japanese women who were evacuated from a building in Central Park in Tokyo comfort each other as news spreads of the devastation unleashed across the country.
Collapsed: Three shocked workers look at the factory in Sukagawa city, Fukushima that only a short while earlier they had been working inside with dozens more unsuspecting colleagues.
Raging seas: The tsunami pours through trees and engulfs homes on the coast of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, after the earthquake struck.
Swelling: The murky flow of mud and debris trapped in the tide of water washes over the tarmac car park at Sendai airport in northern Japan.
Destruction: Tsunami tidal waves race upstream along the Naka river at Hitachinaka city in Ibaraki hours after the massive 9.0 magnitude quake struck this morning.
Shock: A young couple at a bookshop in Sendai, northern Japan, embrace as the ceiling collapses and the building rocks from the force of the quake while in Tokyo black smoke rises from fires caused by the quake.
Aftermath: Clouds of grey smoke billow out of an oil refinery, and an inferno burns at its centre, in Chiba following the earthquake.
Concerned: Two office workers in Tokyo brace themselves for a potential disaster as the earthquake rumbled buildings and smoke can be seen rising from skyscrapers outside.
Effects: A mother and her daughter watch nervously as pools of water from burst pipes encroach on the pavement in Tokyo while paramedics carry away casualties from a nearby building that was rocked by the earthquake.
Red alert: Flames engulf homes that were hit with the full force of the tsunami in the Miyagi region of north eastern Japan.
Debris: An eerie mist sweeps across the debris of destroyed homes and cars caught in the raging tsunami waters in Kesennuma in Miyagi, northern Japan.
Explosion: Flames reach hundreds of feet into the sky after a natural gas facility in Chiba near Tokyo explodes after the earthquake and a fire tears through residential houses in Yamada in northern Japan.
Stranded: Shoppers sit on the floor of a department store as train and bus services were suspended due to the earthquake.
Cold: Elderly women who are likely to have experienced a number of earthquakes in their lifetime sit on the street as they take in the most recent disaster which is one of the worst in recent history.
Stuck: Stranded commuters inside Tokyo railway station prepare themselves for a long wait as the city, where infrastructure is designed to withstand disasters, recovers from the earthquake.
Aftershocks: A frail elderly man rests under a blanket as all around him the country is gripped by the full scale of the earthquake and young Japanese people evacuated from buildings at risk of collapsing wrap blankets around themselves.
At risk: Confusion spead amoung passengers who were taken off planes at Narita International Airport in Naita city, suburban Tokyo.
Pile-up: New cars ready to be shipped are stacked on top of each other after the water gushed through Hitachinaka city in Ibaraki prefecture.
Shock: The full destructive power of the earthquake is evident in this concrete road in Fukushima prefecture that was snapped in half by the disaster.
Destroyed: The remains of houses are surrounded by broken wood and concrete after flood waters engulfed Iwaki town, Fukushima prefecture.
Explosions: Giant fireballs rise from a burning oil refinery in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture after being shaken by the earthquake off the coast.

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[socalrws]

BLATANT PLAGIARISM

What purpose does this serve?

[fairefacesbyRosemary]

powerful photos...horrifying event...thanks, a great collection of photos from the news...ones I have seen before and which are etched in my mind forever...may all those suffering find comfort soon....for this and past disasters...

[MrBlemph]

Good set of slides to show what happened.