Strong 8.9 earthquake rocks Japan tsunami hits North East

Japanese earthquake in video DATE / 11/3/2011 Video of mad tsunami waves battering ships, homes, cars after Japan earthquake Japan earthquake: CCTV video of tsunami wave hitting Sendai airport Scary footage: Tsunami waves raging, buildings burn after 8.9 Japan earthquake Japan earthquake: Danger of nuclear disaster after Fukushima plant failure? TV9 - JAPAN TSUNAMI MONTAGE : NORTHERN JAPAN TO RECONSTRUCT TOTALLY A large tsunami is sweeping through north-eastern Japan, following an earthquake thought to have been 8.9 on the Richter Scale. The first wave has also reached Russia’s Kuril islands to the north, reportedly around a metre high. 11-thousand people are being evacuated from the area. In northern Japan, water is surging inland in Sed-ay, some 350km north of Tokyo. There's considerable damage and many casualties - although numbers can't be confirmed because communications are badly-affected. Several people are missing. The lower floors of buildings on Honshu island are being flooded and cars overturned. A bridge has also collapsed. Tokyo's Norita International Airport has also closed. The quake's epicenter was located 130 kilometres off Japan's Pacific coast. A tsunami warning's now in place across the entire Pacific region. The government has confirmed 25 deaths, with the number expected to rise. It follows the 8.9-magnitude earthquake which sent a 4-metre wall of water inland across the Miyagi prefecture . There's considerable destruction - 200 people have been

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