First, is the NASA image of the tsunami infiltrating land on March 12th, 2011 following the 9.0 earthquake. For larger images click on the link. The red spot is the fire at the Chiba refinery. Note that the city of Sendai is marked on the image.
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Flooding from Tsunami near Sendai, JapanNASA’s Terra satellite's first view of northeastern Japan in the wake of a devastating