Pray For Japan: This is confirmed, its the fifth biggest earthquake since 1900. One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded hit Japan Friday, unleashing a 10-metre high tsunami that tossed ships inland and sparked fears that destructive waves could hit across the Pacific Ocean. More than 220,000 people were killed when a 9.1-magnitude quake hit off Indonesia in 2004, unleashing a massive tsunami that devastated coastlines in countries around the Indian Ocean as far away as Africa. The devastating 8.9-magnitude quake left many people injured in coastal areas of the main Honshu island and Tokyo, police said, while TV footage showed widespread flooding in the area.
Today twenty-six people were reported dead. The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said on Friday, “a tsunami warning was extended to the whole of the Pacific basin, except for mainland United States and Canada, following the earthquake off Japan”. Japan says the death toll in a massive earthquake has risen to seven. A monster 10-metre (33 feet) wall of water was reported in Sendai city in northeastern Miyagi prefecture, media said after a four-metre wave hit the coast earlier. The government said the quake had caused “tremendous damage”.
TV footage showed boats, cars and trucks floating in water after a small tsunami hit the town of Kamaichi in northern Japan. An overpass, location unknown, appeared to have collapsed into the water. A magnitude 8.1 quake in the area killed more than 3,000 people in 1933. Last year fishing facilities were damaged after by a tsunami caused by a strong tremor in Chile.