Incredible View of the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

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In Pictures: Japan 6 Months Later

from the Sacramento Bee



Last Sunday was the six-month anniversary of the day the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan's northeast coast. Some 20,000 people are dead or missing. More than 800,000 homes were completely or partially destroyed. The disaster rippled businesses, roads and infrastructure. The Japanese Red Cross Society estimates that 400,000 people were displaced.

Half a year later, there are physical signs of progress. Much of the debris has been cleared away or at least organized into big piles. In the port city of Kesennuma, many of the boats carried inland by the tsunami have been removed. Most evacuees have moved out of high school gyms and into temporary shelters or apartments.

Last week the Kyodo News agency distributed an amazing group of combination photographs showing three scenes. The first scene is right after the earthquake and tsunami hit, then three months later and finally, how the scene looks now.

This is a must-see set of photographs. Click here to see the huge set.

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Post-Quake at Hashima Island

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Another Incredible Japan Tsunami Video

Probably the best one yet. In this one the detail is astonishing, and it really touches home. You can see people running, and looking back, and running.. fleeing for their lives. Nothing I saw is remotely disturbing. I didn't see any floating bodies in other words. You will, however, see an entire town - buildings, cars, everything - destroyed.


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Stunning

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Someone's home captured off the coast of Japan afloat in the ocean.

Radiation Levels Comparison

Click a couple times to zoom in..

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On The Way

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Amazing Japan Tsunami Footage

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Plus some stunning before & after images here (hover over images to change between before and after).

Incredible Earthquake/Tsunami Images From Japan

As always the great people over at The Big Picture at Boston Dot Com have provided us with a huge collection of amazing photos - this time they have captured the essence of Friday morning's disastrous earthquake and tsunami in Japan.


Houses swallowed by tsunami waves burn in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture (state) after Japan was struck by a strong earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, March 11. (Kyodo News/Associated Press)


Sendai Airport is surrounded by waters in Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan, after a ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan's eastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011. (Kyodo News/Associated Press)


Light planes and vehicles sit among the debris after they were swept by a tsumani that struck Sendai airport in northern Japan. (Kyodo News/Associated Press)


Workers inspect a caved-in section of a prefectural road in Satte, Saitama Prefecture, after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in Japan slammed its eastern coast March 11. (Saitama Shimbun/Associated Press/Kyodo News)

Click here to continue to the rest of the images.. (47 total)

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Japan Tsunami Maximum Wave Amplitude

The Honshu tsunami was generated by a Mw 8.9 earthquake (38.322°N, 142.369°E ), at 05:46 UTC, 130 km (80 miles) E of Sendai, Honshu, Japan (according to the USGS). In approximately 25 minutes, the tsunami was first recorded at DART® buoy 21418. The forecast results shown were created with the NOAA forecast method using MOST model with the tsunami source inferred from DART® data.

The graphics display forecast results, showing qualitative and quantitative information about the tsunami, including tsunami wave interaction with ocean floor bathymetric features, and neighboring coastlines. Tsunami model amplitude information is shown color-coded according the scale bar.

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