Japan Hit by Massive Earthquake

“A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 struck northeastern Japan on Friday, triggering a massive tsunami that swept away houses and cars in Miyagi Prefecture and killed at least 20 people in Miyagi and four other prefectures,” Japan Times reports. “The 2:46 p.m. earthquake is one of the strongest ever to have occurred in the quake-prone archipelago, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, with its magnitude surpassing the 7.9 registered in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake in Tokyo and its vicinity, which killed more than 140,000 people.”

I saw the pictures on BBC World when I woke up and they are truly unbelievable. Entire villages washed into the ocean and cars floating about in the Tsunami river.