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After Thursday’s 6.3 magnitude earthquake and fears of a tsunami in Honshu, Japan – the unthinkable happened on Friday – an 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Northern Japan and triggered tsunamis smashing onto the coast of Japan.

Even although the epicentre was 373 kilometres from Tokyo, residents there still felt the tremors.

Dramatic live footage of the tsunami shows ships careening over land, masses of cars and homes being swept away and destruction of infrastructure on a massive scale not seen since the atom bomb was first unleashed on our world.

Many people are saying that the destruction and loss of human life will make the 911 tragedy pale into insignificance.

Follow the tragedy on one or more of these sites: (Scroll Down for YouTube Videos)

Japan Tsunami – Live Streaming:

NHK Japan Live: NHK Japan Live
Al Jazeera Japan Live: Al Jazeera Japan Live
ABC News Live: ABC News Live
Associated Press Live: Associated Press Live
CNN Live: CNN Live
CCTV News China: CCTV News China
Deutche Welle Live: Deutche Welle Live
France24 Live: France24 Live
Khon2 Hawaii: Khon2 Hawaii

Twitter – Real Time Updates:

Twitter #earthquake: Twitter #earthquake
Twitter #japan: Twitter #japan:
Twitter #tsunami: Twitter #tsunami

Japan Tsunami – YouTube:

YouTube #tsunami: YouTube #tsunami

Japan and Hawaii Webcams

Honolulu Webcams: Honolulu Webcams

Japan Earthquake – Real-Time Map:

Earthquake – Real-Time Map: Earthquake – Real-Time Map

Tsunami Warnings Center:

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warnings: West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warningsr
Noaa: Noaa

Japan Tsunami – News:

NHK World Japan: NHK World Japan
BBC Japan: BBC Japan
CNN Japan: CNN Japan
Fox News: Fox News
Reuters Japan: Reuters Japan
Sky News Japan: Sky News Japan
The Japan Times: The Japan Times

Kamaishi City Port Area Tsunami: (Scroll down for Google Map)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8__WmvoCtbs

Buildings on Fire being swept along by the tsunami with cars and ships across farm land: (look out for cars trying to flee the tsunami).

Imagine a wall of water at least 4 metres high hitting the coast at 500 kilometres and hour and you will get an idea of how much destruction can be caused.

The video below shows debris, houses, cars and ships being swept along by the sheer force of the water – when nature gets going don’t stand in her way!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOi1BbYEsKc

The tsunami reached Sendai airport runway after the 8.9 quake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzDW6YvTHPk

Kamaishi is no stranger to eartquakes and tsunamis as this is the third such incident since 1896.

In 1896 the city of Kamaishi was completely destroyed by the Meiji-Sanriku earthquake which struck on June 15 at 7:32 pm whilst families were celebrating Boy’s Festival on the beach. The earthquake measured an 8.5 magnitude whilst the waves on the Iwate coast reached as high as 24 meters in places – the highest ever recorded in Japan.

In 1933 Kamaishi Bay was also destroyed after another Sanriku earthquake.

Kamaishi Bay, Iwate, Japan after 1933 Sanriku earthquake. Image Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Kamaishi did have a tsunami protection boom installed to help stop such destruction again. It seems as though it did not work, though.

Kamaishi Port to Sendai, Japan:

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