Friday, March 11, 2011

Strong earthquake shakes Japan and tsunami with waves up to 10 meters

TOKYO - Fear in the northeast of Japan. Two violent shocks, the most powerful Italian to 6.46 hours, of 8.8 to 7.9 Richter preceded by another, have invested in the country and particularly the capital Tokyo. Here's skyscrapers have fluctuated, and the population took to the streets in search of shelter.

In all the traditional composure. There are already a dozen people dead and an unknown number of wounded but still very high, both in the capital and most of all in the northern prefecture of Miyagi. Budget, based on the images that come from all over the country, it seems destined to rise.

One of the victims was killed by the collapse of a wall in a giant factory 'Honda'. Incalculable number of wounded. The quake was recorded the most powerful ever recorded in Japan, has said the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA). In the port city of Sendai, the capital of Miyagi prefecture, which was the area hardest hit, struck a 'tsunami' of 10 meters high and it is feared a massacre, as many people would have been overwhelmed by a huge landslide caused by the seismic waves.

"Tremendous" damage to property according to the Government: Prime Minister Naoto Kan urged the population to remain calm, follow the instructions issued through radio and television, and contribute to the relief efforts. In Japan's capital alone, there were fourteen fires, while a particularly broad broke out in the refinery of Chiba, near Tokyo.

The electric current has ceased to exist in four million homes in the area. Closed Narita International Airport, canceled flights, passengers evacuated, the airport Sendei its part has been flooded by the waves. Automatically blocked several nuclear installations with regard to the Prime Minister has assured that there were no radiation leaks.

Without the connections by underground, sub-urban railways and bullet trains, the pride of the country of the Rising Sun.

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