Nightmare in Japan

摘要

The earth shook for more than two minutes. Buildings cracked and skyscrapers swayed. Then the tsunami swept in. It was the most powerful earthquake Japan had suffered in a long and deadly seismic history. The ocean floor heaved, unleashing walls of water on the country's Pacific edge. Floods washed away neighborhoods, and fires raged in cities like Iwaki. Broad swaths of coastline were destroyed.