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    The strongest earthquake ever recorded in Japan triggered a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland along Japan's northeast coast, killing over 350 people and leaving over 500 missing according to early estimates. The tsunami, which gained a speed of 500 mph as it crossed the ocean, caused widespread damage along the coast, destroying towns, sweeping away vehicles and boats, and forcing the evacuation of 3,000 people from the Fukushima nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed.

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    The strongest earthquake ever recorded in Japan triggered a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland along Japan's northeast coast, killing over 350 people and leaving over 500 missing according to early estimates. The tsunami, which gained a speed of 500 mph as it crossed the ocean, caused widespread damage along the coast, destroying towns, sweeping away vehicles and boats, and forcing the evacuation of 3,000 people from the Fukushima nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed.

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    Japan Earthquake

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    The strongest earthquake ever recorded in Japan triggered a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland along Japan's northeast coast, killing over 350 people and leaving over 500 missing according to early estimates. The tsunami, which gained a speed of 500 mph as it crossed the ocean, caused widespread damage along the coast, destroying towns, sweeping away vehicles and boats, and forcing the evacuation of 3,000 people from the Fukushima nuclear power plant after its cooling system failed.

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    The strongest
    earthquake ever
    recorded in Japan,
    triggered a devastating Kamaichi Cars,
    tsunami that swept boats swept
    over cities and flat away by waves
    farmland. Epicenter of
    8.9 magnitude
    Early estimates Kesennuma earthquake;
    Town burned aftershocks of
    • 350 dead
    into the night magnitudes 6.0
    • 500 missing
    or greater felt
    Total death toll
    expected to Sendai
    exceed 1,000 200-300
    bodies found
    Tsunami
    gained speed
    Sea of of 500 mph
    Fukushima
    Japan (800 kph)
    nuclear plant
    J A P A N 3,000 people
    ordered to
    across the
    Pacific
    evacuate when
    cooling system
    for reactor
    fails Pacific
    Tokyo 4 million
    es

    Ocean
    buildings without
    lt lin

    power; airport
    Fau

    closed
    North
    American
    Plate
    Pacific
    Phillippine Plate
    Plate

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