Japan Earthquake 2011

Japan Earthquake 2011 — Huge earthquakes rocked northeastern Japan on Saturday, a day after a huge temblor set off a influential tsunami that killed hundreds of people, turned the shore into a muddy wasteland and left two nuclear reactors severely close to render down.

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The United States Geological Survey said a burly earthquake struck just before noon in the sea in practically the same place where the scale 8.9 quake on Friday unleashed one of the greatest disasters Japan has witnessed – a 23-foot (7-meter) tsunami that washed far local over fields and cracked towns.

Saturday’s scale 6.8 quake was followed by a series of temblors originating from the same area, the USGS said. It was not at once known whether the new quakes caused any more spoil. All were part of the more than 125 aftershocks since Friday’s enormous quake, the strongest to hit Japan since officials began keeping records in the late 1800s.

It ranked as the fifth-biggest earthquake in the world since 1900 and was nearly 8,000 times stronger than one that overcome Christchurch, New Zealand, last month, scientists said.

The official death charge stood at 413, while 784 people were lost and 1,128 injured. In adding together, police said between 200 and 300 bodies were found along the shore in Sendai, the biggest city in the area of the quake’s epicenter. An countless number of bodies were also assumed to be lying in the rubble and debris. Rescue workers had yet to reach the hardest-hit areas.

The flood came in from behind the store and swept around both sides. Cars were flowing right by, said Wakio Fushima who owns a convenience store in this northern coastal city of 1.02 million people, 80 miles (125 kilometers) from the quake’s epicenter.