![]() ![]() A ship carrying 100 people was swept away by the tsunami, Kyodo news agency reports. Local television shows waves steadily rising over southern beaches on Oahu island. First signs of tsunami begin to appear on shores of Hawaii. Government says no radiation leaking evacuation is precaution after reactor cooling malfunction. Some 3,000 residents living near a nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, have been told to evacuate the area, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano tells reporters. Up to 300 bodies found in Sendai city, domestic news agency Jiji says. One train is derailed and another missing in Miyagi prefecture, Kyodo says. A large waterfront area near Sendai city is on fire, TV reports say. See more astonishing images in a photo gallery from the Japan earthquake and tsunami here Japan earthquake and tsunami: what happened ![]() Read about how it all happened - Tsunami science: a wall of water And the power of a seismic wave as it hits land depends on a whole range of factors. These two events combined killed over 500,000 people.” Not all earthquakes produce tsunamis. “It is slightly smaller than the Sumatra earthquake of 2004, a magnitude 9.1 event. Japan quake: “100 times stronger Haiti quake”īob Holdsworth, professor of structural geology, in the department of earth sciences at Durham University said: “The magnitude of this event is staggering: it is nearly one hundred times more powerful that the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The magnitude of the quake was so great that it was felt in Beijing in China, 1500 miles away. The shocks felt in Tokyo hit in the mid-afternoon and pictures showed a high rise business building on fire. Lots of books fell off the shelf and in my wife’s shop all the booze came crashing down. The advice I am getting though is to stay indoors as my building is safe.”ĭan Pratt, a teacher in Inzaimakinohara east of Tokyo told Channel 4 News: “The room moved off centre by about a foot in each direction. “I am now at home and I live quite high up, on the 40th floor and the building is still shaking. It is nearly one hundred times more powerful than the 2010 Haiti earthquake Prof Bob Holdsworth Read more from people who experienced the disaster who have spoken to Channel 4 News It lasted probably a minute to 90 seconds and then there were some really strong after-shocks following that. “We get quakes all the time but the one today was really strong, people were under their desks shouting and screaming and the Japanese people in the office said it was the worst they have ever seen. “I have been in Japan for six years and this was far beyond anything I have experienced, particularly in terms of length and aggression.”Īnother eyewitness Chris Kimber, who is in Tokyo told Channel 4 News what he could see from his flat in Tokyo: “Out of my window I can see buildings and factories on fire, at first I thought my flat was on fire as I was returning from work. On the way down the stairs we were all clinging to the handrails to try and avoid falling down and outside it was possible to see the buildings visibly swaying. “However this time it continued to build to the point where everyone rushed to the exit. We have an office of about 30-40 people and at first it felt like a standard earthquake like we have had over the last few days. He told Channel 4 News: “I was on the sixth floor of a building in central Tokyo near the Imperial Palace having a normal day up until that point. Eyewitness: “buildings were visibly swaying”Īnthony Walker was at work in Tokyo when the quake struck. The plant’s cooling system malfunctioned after today’s strong earthquake struck. TEPCO plans to take measures to release the pressure, the report added. ![]() Meanwhile, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said pressure inside the No.1 reactor at its Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant has been rising, with the risk of a radiation leak, Jiji News reported. In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts the tsunami threat there will be over in 2-5 hours. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii issued a tsunami warning for the entire Pacific basin however several, including Indonesia, have now been stepped down and other countries in the region have so far been relatively only mildly affected. Aftershocks as high as 7.1 magnitude continued in the immediate aftermath raising fears of yet more tsunamis. Pictures showed the waters sweeping across the country taking buildings and moving traffic along with it. ![]()
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