Tsunami sweeps through Minamisanriku (video 10,000 missing)

Botany

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Mon Mar-14-11 05:19 PM
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Tsunami sweeps through Minamisanriku (video 10,000 missing)

Edited on Mon Mar-14-11 05:22 PM by Botany

Source: The Telegraph

A 30-foot tsunami sweeps up a narrow valley, flattening the fishing port of Minamisanriku on the east coast of Japan.

The port of Minamisanriku, in Iwate prefecture, was wiped from the map by the tsunami unleashed by Friday's 9.0 magnitude
earthquake.

People on higher ground watch in horror as the giant wall of water and debris engulfs the homes below, wiping the town of
17,000 people off the map.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8381007/Tsunami-sweeps-through-Minamisanriku.html

10,000 people are missing :cry:

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Mon Mar-14-11 05:27 PM
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1. RIP

Sad. So very sad.

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