My most recent post on the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is here.
Some more news tidbits on the Sendai earthquake/tsunami.
Dawn just broke over there. Here’s footage of the aftermath:
A video of the massive whirlpool formed off the coast in the wake of the tsunami:
(If you know of a better video not recorded off a camera aimed at a TV, let me know.)
And finally, a much-needed moment of levity. I LOLed…
My earlier posts for earthquake/video footage can be found here, here, and here
A few more videos. Not a lot of context for some of these, so I can’t tell if they’re from Sendai or someplace else.
This provides a scary, up-close demonstration of how fast the tsunami came in:
Japanese office workers run as bits of building start falling around them:
There’s a reason they call it the Ring of Fire: The quake has activated several regional volcanos:
It’s almost like playing Sim City, where you inflict all the disasters (earthquake, flood, volcano, monster) on the city at once…
The current news, as near as I can gather:
A grocery store during the quake. Don’t know us this is Sendai, Tokyo or somewhere else:
The Ichihara oil refinery on fire:
The tsunami coming in:
More tsunami flood footage:
Still more:
This one is particularly scary:
The apartment buildings behind it seem intact. Maybe the tsunami surge tossed a ship into the highway.
(Hat tip: Instapundit.)
The quake hit at 2:46 p.m local time about 230 miles off the coast of northern Japan near Sendai. A Wikipedia entry is already up, and they’re calling it the largest earthquake to hit Japan in recorded history. It looks pretty bad, although thankfully not “sink into the sea” bad.
But it looks bad enough:
This CNN story also has embedded footage of the tsunami coming inland carrying debris, boats and burning houses with it.
This NNK report is saying the tsunami waves were 10 meters high.
Compilation of live quake footage:
Here’s footage of the tsunami inundating a Japanese airport:
If there’s one comfort in this, Japan is very good at earthquake and tsunami preparation. If something this big hit, say, Haiti, just about everything on the island would be gone.