A magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck the northern coast of Japan on Friday interior, triggering a 13-foot (4 meter) tsunami swept boats, cars, buildings and tons of rubble miles. Fires caused by the earthquake on-site monitoring burnt and thrown on the coast.
Houses are washed away by tsunami in Sendai, eastern Japan
TV footage showed waves of Muddy Waters painting on farmland near the city of Sendai, the implementation of buildings, some of fire for hunting, inland ports tries than cars.
“This could be an increase in earthquake rare and serious damage quickly by the minute,” said Junichi Sawada, an official with the fire of Japan and the Civil Protection Agency.
Officials have tried to assess the damage, injuries and deaths, but had no immediate details. Police said at least one person was killed in a house collapse in Ibaraki prefecture, just north of Tokyo.
A large fire broke out at the Cosmo Oil refinery in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo, and burned out of control.
In this image made off Japan's NHK TV video footage, houses are washed away by tsunami in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture (state) eastern Japan, after Japan was struck by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011.
Public broadcaster NHK showed footage of a large vessel is swept by the tsunami and driving directly into a breakwater in the city of Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture. Similar destruction was seen in dozens of communities along the coast.
In various places along the coast, pictures showed extensive damage of the tsunami, with cars, boats and even buildings along the tracks.
The quake at 2:46 ET clock was followed by five strong aftershocks in about an hour, the strongest measuring 7.1. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the strength of the first earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9, while Japan’s Meteorological Agency measured at 8.4.
Vehicles are washed away by tsunami in coastal area in eastern Japan
The meteorological agency issued a tsunami warning for the Pacific coast of Japan. NHK warned near the coast to get to safer ground.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said a tsunami warning was in effect for Japan, Russia, Iceland and the Northern Mariana Islands Marcus. Issued a tsunami clock for Guam, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia and the U.S. state of Hawaii was.
The earthquake at a depth of six miles (10 kilometers), about 80 miles (125 kilometers) off the east coast, the agency said. The area is 240 miles (380 kilometers) north of Tokyo.
In downtown Tokyo, shook violently invaded large buildings and workers on the streets for safety. TV images showed a large building on fire and smoke in the Odaiba district of Tokyo roaring.
In central Tokyo, the trains were stopped and the passengers walked along the lines of railway platforms. NHK, more than 4 million buildings without electricity in Tokyo and its suburbs.
The ceiling of Kudan Kaikan, a hall in Tokyo fell and injured an unknown number of people, according to NHK.
Osamu Akiya, 46, was in Tokyo working in his office in a business, when the earthquake struck.
She sent shelves and computer crashes to the ground and cracks in walls.
“I’ve been through many earthquakes, but I’ve never felt anything,” he said. “I do not know if we come home tonight.”
Sequences of his office on NHK Sendai were stumbling around people and books and materials in the office. It also found shelter in glass at a bus stop in Tokyo comforted completely destroyed by the earthquake and a woman crying in the vicinity of another woman.
Several earthquakes were the same region in recent days, including one of magnitude 7.3 struck on Wednesday.
Thirty minutes after the earthquake were still swaying tall buildings in Tokyo and mobile networks were not working. Japan Coast Guard has established a working group and officials are waiting for emergency contingencies, “said Coast Guard official Yosuke Oi.
“I fear we’ll soon know the damage because of the earthquake was so strong,” he said.
The tsunami destroyed embankments in the city of Sendai, washing cars, houses and farm machinery inside before reversing directions and thrown into the sea Flames some houses, probably due to the bursting of gas lines.
In Tokyo, hundreds of people from Shinjuku Station, the worlds busiest evacuated to a nearby park. Trains were stopped.
Tokyo’s main airport was closed. Much of the ceiling at the airport 1-year-old was Ibaraki, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Tokyo on the ground with a heavy fall.
TV speaker urged the audience near the banks to move the heavy concrete buildings and remain above the third floor.
Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency said they were still assessing damage, but no confirmed deaths.
One person was injured in a baseball stadium in Sendai, but his condition was not immediately known.
Dozens of fires were reported in the northern prefectures of Fukushima, Sendai, Iwate and Ibaraki. Houses collapsed and landslides were also reported in Miyagi.
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