Oil refinery ablaze after devastating Japan earthquake, tsunami

Follow latest updates at http://twitter.com/rt_com and http://www.facebook.com/RTnews
The government has confirmed 18 deaths, with the number expected to rise. It follows the 8.9-magnitude earthquake which sent a 4-metre wall of water inland across the Miyagi prefecture . There's considerable destruction - 200 people have been washed away. Buildings, cars and ships were also swept by the raging waters. Several are missing on Japan's Sendai island. The first wave has also reached Russia's Kuril islands to the north, reportedly around a metre high. There are several fires along Japan's eastern coastline, and 4 million homes are without power. The Prime Minister's ordered an emergency response team to tackle the disaster - with aircraft scrambled to the worst-affected area. Communication is crippled and Tokyo's Norita International Airport has been closed. The entire Pacific region is on tsunami alert - with Hawaii braced to be hit within the next few hours.

• Category

  News & Politics

[Lauryn Anna]

This has nothing whatsoever to do with your Christian Lord or Jesus. Seriously? The amount of Christians in that country is .1%. Not even. And basically only in Nagasaki. So TELLING these people that the answer is not in Buddha- How ignorant can you get? How dare you leave such "wholehearted comments" when a country has been devastated? Your god would love those people even if BUDDHA wasn't the answer. And he honestly a better roll model than your shitty old testament.

[mrksvkman]

I have been in Japan, when the biggest earthquake struck Tokyo, it felt normal at the beginning, but as it went on, I felt something wrong. I went outside, together with my younger brother. The strange thing is that I could feel the ground moving, even outside, on the road! I am 16 and I come from Slovakia. About two weeks later, I went to the area, hit by the tsunami and I made a document there. If you want to see, how life goes on after the catastrophe, you can see the film, in my channel.

[ben wilson]

lmao, its a joke dude. i dont believe in that shit

[ShaunStar5]

Congrats JAPAN FIFA GOLD MEDAL !! I'm sure it will boost the spirits of everyone this difficult year! I'm very impressed ! - Dankeschön Japan!

[arcticblueice]

Psalm 121:1-2 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

May the great grace of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ &

the peace of God be with the people of Japan.

Many people in America are praying for you.

May your eyes & hearts be opened to see that the answer is not in Buddha,

but in the Living God ~ the Creator of heaven & earth.

[Vinnie M]

This catastrophe was created by HARRAP technology from inside the United States.HARRP is Top Secret & has 4 plants inside the U.S. best way to describe it, hundreds of antennas when activate sends energy into the atmosphere which is then bounced back to the planet causing a deep base vibration so great the ground beneath shakes the ground and shifts the plates causing a seduction which leads to an earth quake.Don't believe it ?go research it yourself just type in HARRAP EARTH QUAKE on utube