Natural Disaster | 2011 Japan Powerful Quake and Devastating Tsunami - 日本の強力な地震と津波

Houses are in flame while the Natori river is flooded over the surrounding area by tsunami tidal waves in Natori city, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, March 11, 2011, after thestrong earthquakes hit the area.

 

A woman, carrying a child on her back, walks over tsunami-drifted debris and mud in Rikuzentakada, Iwate Prefecture, Saturday morning, March 12, 2011 after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday.

 

Vehicles are crushed by a collapsed wall at a carpark in Mito city in Ibaraki prefecture after the massive earthquake rocked Japan. 

 

 Daybreak reveals huge devastation in tsunami-hit Japan.

 

Waves of tsunami hit residences after the powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan, Friday, March 11, 2011.

 

The powerful tsunami swept through Japan's coastal region north of Tokyo and destroyed much of the area's infrastructure, limiting communication.

 The ferocious tsunami unleashed by Japan’s biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it carried away ships, cars and homes, and triggered widespread fires that burned out of control.

Large fishing boats and other vessels rode high waves ashore, slamming against overpasses or scraping under them and snapping power lines along the way. Upturned and partially submerged cars bobbed in the water. Ships anchored in ports crashed against each other.

 

Swirls of waves approach to a coast in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, Friday, March 11, 2011 after the powerful tsunami .

 

Nexco East Japan, a worker inspects a caved-in section of the Joban Motorway near Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in Japan slammed its eastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011.