Tsunami-hit city's scale model used to show tidal waves

Tsunami-hit city's scale model used to show tidal waves

OSAKA, Japan - Kota Buto (extreme R), a senior at Miyako Technical Senior High School, explains how tsunami cause tidal waves using a scale model of the center of Miyako, a northeastern Japan city hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, during a demonstration at Osaka Electro-Communication University in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on July 24, 2014. (Kyodo)

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