at 14:46 hours Japan, the quake's epicenter was in the Ojika peninsula at a depth of 10 km to 130 km from the Pacific Ocean. As reported in the same place a week before another earthquake occurred which reached 7.3 degrees but is said not to have caused damage to their surroundings.
Half an hour later to las15: 15 hours in Japan felt a rumbling quake 380 kilometers north of Tokyo on the coast of Miyagi Prefecture and a depth of 24 km, according to most media. Also warned that many aftershocks were around 7 degrees on the scale, which was to escort a tsunami overflowed around form waves reaching up to ten meters, destroying everything that lay ahead, particularly the larger area is affected by water Sendai, a city of about one million inhabitants.
The shaking causes most of the services stop working, so users had 4.4 million outages, and is the largest earthquake in the history of Japan with a magnitude greater than 7.9 degrees Richter in 1923 killed 140,000 people, as reported NHK.
Japanese officials have spoken in such a situation, including Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan , which he called "big " damage caused by the earthquake and created a task force to address the situation emergency. Further detail, that despite two nuclear plants in the affected areas would stop working, it had nothing to do with any radioactive me.
Yukio Edan government spokesman assured that the Japanese people should remain on alert due to multiple replicas of the earthquake and tsunami. Encouraged and recommended that people remain calm and not desperate to return to their homes to avoid chaos. In the capital of Japan, buildings were affected as Tokyo Tower which seems to have been broken after so great catastrophe.
Another government employees to give statements was Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said the agency Kyodo suspended its activity. Despite all the suffering and many countries expressed their solidarity the disaster by claiming to be willing to help. Although the Japanese government has insisted that they are taking all necessary measures to end this nightmare.
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