The wave heights image looks like bleeding:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/11/world/asia/maps-of-earthquake-and-tsunami-damage-in-japan.html

Inside Sendai Airport.

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BBC brings some spectacular satellite images of how towns looked before and how after the tsunami:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12726589

A new Tsunami warning has just been given for Japan, and a Japanese volcano erupts again.

News reports in Australia was saying that there was a 70% chance of another big quake measuring 7+ to hit Japan withing the next 3 days.

A new Tsunami warning has just been given for Japan, and a Japanese volcano erupts again.

News reports in Australia was saying that there was a 70% chance of another big quake measuring 7+ to hit Japan withing the next 3 days.

Oh no.

Oh no.

I really do hope that the news reports are wrong, really don't know how much more Japan can take.

Thankfully CNN have just said that the Tsunami waring has been cancelled.

But the bad news is that they have just found 2,000 bodies, and another explosion at the nuclear plant, but they are conflicting reports.

Out of all the horror this is a good news story.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/japanese-man-rescured-15km-out-to-sea/story-fn7zkbgs-1226020702646

UPDATE 9.30am: RESCUERS have captured the moment a Japanese man was spotted clinging to a piece of roof 15km out to sea after Friday's tsunami.

Hiromitsu Shinkawa, 60, was plucked to safety yesterday after being spotted clinging to a piece of wreckage, officials said.

A Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer rescued Mr Shinkawa after discovering him floating on a piece of roof in waters off Fukushima Prefecture, two days after the disaster struck.

The man, from the city of Minamisoma which has been virtually obliterated, was swept out along with his house after the massive tsunami tore into Japan's northeast following a 9-magnitude earthquake on Friday.

He is conscious and in "good condition" after his rescue which took place around 12.40pm local time, ministry officials said, adding that he was taken to hospital by helicopter.

"I ran away after learning that the tsunami was coming," Shinkawa told rescuers, according to Jiji Press.

"But I turned back to pick up something at home, when I was washed away. I was rescued while I was hanging to the roof from my house."

The government has said that at least 1,000 people are believed to have lost their lives in the disaster, and police estimate more than 215,000 people are huddled in emergency shelters.

However, the police chief of badly-hit Miyagi prefecture, which lies north of Fukushima, said that the death toll was certain to exceed 10,000 in his district alone

Edited March 14, 201114 yr by SnCCorinthos4ever

<span style="font-size:120%;">Japan's coastline may have shifted by as much as 4m (13ft) to the east following Friday's 8.9 Magnitude earthquake, according to experts.

Data from the country's Geonet network of around 1,200 GPS monitoring stations suggest a large displacement following the massive quake.

Dr Roger Musson from the British Geological Survey (BGS) told BBC News the movement observed following the quake was "in line with what you get when you have an earthquake this big".

The quake probably shifted Earth on its axis by about 6.5 inches (16.5cm) and caused the planet to rotate somewhat faster, shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 millionths of a second.

Japan's meteorological agency has proposed updating the magnitude of the earthquake to 9.0.

This would make it the joint fifth biggest quake since instrumental records began, but other agencies have not yet followed suit.

Japan lies on the infamous "Ring of Fire", the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that encircles virtually the entire Pacific Rim.

The dense rock making up the Pacific Ocean's floor is being pulled down (subducted) underneath Japan as it moves westwards towards Eurasia.

Dr Brian Baptie, also from the BGS, explained that the quake occurred on the subduction zone along two tectonic plates, the Pacific plate to the east and another plate to the west, which many geologists regard as a continuation of the North American plate.

As the Pacific plate moves westwards underneath Japan, it drags the North American plate downwards and westwards with it.

As an earthquake occurs, the upper plate lurches upwards and eastwards, releasing strain built up as the two plates grind against one another.

In the most recent case, this movement gave a kick to the seabed, displacing a large amount of water and leading to the tsunami waves which devastated coastal areas in the Sendai region.

"The Pacific plate has moved a maximum of 20m westwards, but the amount of movement will vary even within the fault," said Dr Musson.

"That doesn't mean the whole country has shifted by that amount because the actual displacement will decay further from the fault."

Geonet is operated by Japan's Geographical Survey Institute (GSI). Work on the array began in 1993, and it has now grown into the largest GPS network in the world, according to the GSI.

Its data show a movement eastwards of up to 4m in coastal areas of Japan.

Dr Ken Hudnut, a geophysicist at the US Geological Survey (USGS) in Pasadena, California, told MSNBC that information resources linking GPS readings to maps, such as driving directions and property records, would have to be changed as a result of the shift.

"Their national network for property boundary definitions has been warped," he explained. "For ships, the nautical charts will need revision due to changed water depths, too (of about 3ft). Much of the coastline dropped by a few feet, too, we gather."

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Click on the following link and slide the cursor back and forth to see the difference before and after the earthquake in Japan: Before and After

Found this link on one of my Facebook fans pages.

http://www.facebook.com/notes/jun-shiomitsu/japan-quake-as-seen-from-twitter-translated-by-me-so-quality-questionable/10150121176733830

It is of Tweets made by the Japanese after the earthquake.

There was one on CNN yesterday that I had to laugh at was the one where the mother said that her young son was putting on his shoes and telling her that he was going to go out and arrest the earthquake.

The most frightening part is the struggles to keep the nuclear plants under control - I think three or four have had explosions and sea water stalling has meant some of the rods were exposed, which will lead to further contamination of the public.

There's also some talk about why there is no looting in Japan.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100079703/why-is-there-no-looting-in-japan/

There's also some talk about why there is no looting in Japan.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100079703/why-is-there-no-looting-in-japan/

I never even thought of that. This must be an east/west thing because here people will loot if their sports team wins a championship. Looters should be shot on sight, not food and water looters, but TV looters and such.

I never even thought of that. This must be an east/west thing because here people will loot if their sports team wins a championship. Looters should be shot on sight, not food and water looters, but TV looters and such.

ITA Looters that take anything but food and water as long as they don't take it to sell it should be shot on sight.

Edited March 15, 201114 yr by SnCCorinthos4ever

Click on the following link and slide the cursor back and forth to see the difference before and after the earthquake in Japan: Before and After

That is just so scary. They have now added the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

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I complain about my life sometimes but this has put everything into perspective. They are telling people to stay in their homes because of nuclear fires and radiation. Japan has been such a proud nation and they just seem to be getting battered again and again and again