Tsunami subsides before huge wave strikes
MIYAKO, Japan - Successive photos, obtained by the Iwate Prefectural Museum, show the March 11, 2011, tsunami striking an area in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, shortly after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake. The top photo shows a fishing port breakwater (in the center of the photo) submerged at 3:12 p.m., the middle photo shows it reemerging at 3:16 p.m. as the water level falls and the bottom photo shows it being overrun by a huge tsunami with an estimated speed of 115 kilometers per hour at 3:18 p.m. The museum said many people, who had escaped from their homes, were killed after returning home to fetch valuables when the initial tsunami wave subsided. (Photo courtesy of the Iwate Prefectural Museum)(Kyodo)
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- 2011/4/21 00:00:00
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