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URL copied Japan marks 10 years since tsunami hit Japan fell quiet at 2:46 p.m. Thursday to mark the minute that an earthquake began 10 years ago, setting off a tsunami and nuclear crisis that devastated the country’s northeast coast in a disaster that one survivor said he fears people are beginning to forget. Carrying bouquets of flowers, many walked to the seaside or visited graves to pray for relatives and friends washed away by the water. Emperor Naruhito and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga were among those observing a moment of silence at a memorial in Tokyo. Dignitaries and...

I’ll never forget the moment we arrived in the city of Natori. Our crew had driven overnight from Tokyo following the earthquake. The sun was shining on a cold crisp morning. As we got off the highway, we stopped to ask the chief at a fire station where damage from the tsunami was. He told us to drive down the street a few blocks and turn right. Nothing could have prepared us for what we saw. We were miles from the coast, but almost half the city of 80,000 had been levelled. It was as if a giant hand had come up out of the ocean and pulled all the structures of Natori into the waters of the...

Japan marked the 10th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that hit its northeastern region, where many survivors’ lives are still on hold. Carrying bouquets, many walked to the coast or visited graves to pray for relatives and friends washed away by the tsunami. Emperor Naruhito and prime minister Yoshihide Suga were among those observing a moment of silence at 2:46pm, the minute the shaking started, at a memorial in Tokyo. The magnitude 9.0 quake that struck on March 11 2011, was one of the biggest on record and set off a massive tsunami that swept far inland, destr...

More than 18,000 people died in the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that struck Japan's northeastern coast on March 11, 2011.

Quake, Tsunami, Meltdown: Japan's 2011 Disaster As It Happened By Katie Forster 03/10/21 AT 9:09 PM It was just after quarter to three on a cold Friday afternoon when buildings across northeast Japan began to shake fiercely as one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded unleashed its fury. Residents carry belongings from tsunami devastated homes in Natori on March 14, 2011, in the wake of the 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami which hit the region three days earlier Photo: AFP / Mike CLARKE The March 11, 2011 tremor, which triggered a catastrophic tsunami and nuclear disaster, was unl...