Rare Video: Japan Tsunami
The March 11 earthquake and tsunami left more than 28,000 dead or missing. See incredible footage of the tsunami swamping cities and turning buildings into rubble. Video.
The March 11 earthquake and tsunami left more than 28,000 dead or missing. See incredible footage of the tsunami swamping cities and turning buildings into rubble.
© 2011 National Geographic
All across northern Japan they felt it.
A violent, magnitude 9-point-zero earthquake on March 11, 2011.
It was centered about 80 miles offshore, and tsunami warnings went up immediately. In coastal cities, people knew what to do next: run to higher ground.
It’s from these vantage points on hills and in tall buildings that incredible footage was captured on video.
In Kesennuma, people retreated to a hi-rise roof top and could only watch in horror as tsunami waves inundated their city, knocking buildings into rubble and mixing into a kind of tsunami ‘soup’ filled with vehicles,
