Great Sendai News Today

THERE is probably nowhere in the world like Antarctica – a huge 5.5m sq mile (14.2m sq km) icy continent most of us imagine the obvious – like nothing more than a landscape of hardened ice, frozen for centuries, if not millions of years.

Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011, also called Great Sendai Earthquake or Great Tōhoku Earthquake, severe natural disaster that occurred in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. The event began with a powerful earthquake off the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan’s main island, which caused widespread damage on land and initiated a series of large tsunami waves that devastated many coastal areas of the country, most notably in the Tōhoku region (northeastern Honshu). The tsunami also in...

Transcript minus News report: Japan is being shaken, smashed and scorched, the dawn light revealing the obliteration wrought by the countrys worst earthquake. In Miyagi prefecture north of Tokyo, whole villages and towns have been shattered and swept away. Just north of the quakes epicentre, landslides ripped railway lines from their tracks. To the south, trains were tossed off course and upended. Hundreds of people are dead and missing. Near Sendai in northern Japan, the tsunami surged ten k...