Magnitude 8.9 Earthquake hits Japan **3/10/2011**

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Magnitude 8.9 Earthquake hits Japan **3/10/2011**

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Via Yahoo:

TOKYO – Japan was struck by a magnitude-8.8 earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, triggering a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that washed away cars and tore away buildings along the coast near the epicenter.

In various locations along Japan's coast, TV footage showed severe flooding, with dozens of cars, boats and even buildings being carried along by waters. A large ship swept away by the tsunami rammed directly into a breakwater in Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture, according to footage on public broadcaster NHK.

Officials were trying to assess possible damage from the quake but had no immediate details.

The quake that struck 2:46 p.m. was followed by a series of aftershocks, including a 7.4-magnitude one about 30 minutes later. The U.S. Geological Survey upgraded the strength of the first quake to a magnitude 8.8.


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I was up til 4AM watching this stuff, worrying about my fam in HI. Really glad no other countries got hit with the tsunami.

Really tragic what happened in Japan though...
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big island of Hawaii also got a small tsunami.


hope all is well with everyone
let's hope for the best for Japan and it's people.
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Madness, my wife was up for 2 days tryimg to contact family members, shit is just awful . I am just glad my fam is ok and wish my best to everyone whom lost a loved one or even their home. Just imagine how much it would suck to have everything you own gone in an instant .....
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yeah it really upset me when I started seeing peopling mocking the disaster on their face book by posting "surfs up in Japan" type shit! Honestly like you said Skor imagine if that happened here. Only a 20 minute warning of a huge wave coming to tear down everything you know and possibly take your life. Most people around here take things for granted and I'm guilty as well but when you start poking fun at something like this... Just not cool and completely un called for.
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