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US: EF-1 Tornado Touches Down In Athens, AL, Leaving Devastating Damage

The National Weather Service in Huntsville has confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in downtown Athens, Alabama, on Saturday night, December 28.

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MSDF destroyer Kaga

File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2024, shows the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kaga departing the MSDF's Kure base in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Kure, western Japan.

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MSDF destroyer Kaga

File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2024, shows the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kaga departing the MSDF's Kure base in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Kure, western Japan.

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MSDF destroyer Kaga

File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2024, shows the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kaga departing the MSDF's Kure base in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Kure, western Japan.

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MSDF destroyer Kaga

File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2024, shows the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kaga departing the MSDF's Kure base in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Kure, western Japan.

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3,499 buildings damaged by western Japan quake

KURE, Japan - A powerful earthquake that hit a wide area of western Japan on March 24 partially or fully damage a total of 3,499 buildings as of the morning of March 25. Photo shows a house in the town of Ebara in Hiroshima Prefeture's Kure City destroyed. The quake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale killed two people and injuring 164 people in western Japan centering on Hiroshima and Ehime prefectures.

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Hiroshima households lose water supply

KURE, Japan - Some 47,000 households in Hiroshima Prefecture lose their water supply after a powerful earthquake jolted a wide area of western Japan on the afternoon of March 24. Photo shows residents in the city of Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, receiving water supply from the city's Waterworks Bureau officials.

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MSDF destroyer Samidare

People wave to Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Samidare departing the MSDF's Kure base in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Kure, western Japan, on Jan. 9, 2022.

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Memorial service marks 70th anniv. of Yamato sinking

Photo taken on April 7, 2015, in the western Japan city of Kure shows a memorial service to honor around 3,000 crew who died when Japanese battleship Yamato was sunk by the U.S. forces 70 years ago in the East China Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Model of battleship Yamato at maritime museum in Hiroshima

Visitors observe the one-10th scale model of the Yamato, one of the world's largest battleships, which was sunk in 1945, at the Yamato Museum in the western Japanese city of Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on April 23, 2015, the 10th anniversary of the launch of the museum. Nearly 9.9 million people have visited it since then. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial service marks 70th anniv. of Yamato sinking

Photo taken on April 7, 2015, in the western Japan city of Kure shows a memorial service to honor around 3,000 crew who died when Japanese battleship Yamato was sunk by the U.S. forces 70 years ago in the East China Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial service marks 70th anniv. of Yamato sinking

Photo taken on April 7, 2015, in the western Japan city of Kure shows a memorial service to honor around 3,000 crew who died when Japanese battleship Yamato was sunk by the U.S. forces 70 years ago in the East China Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Museum in disaster-hit western Japan city

Photo taken on Aug. 2, 2018 shows the inside of Yamato Museum, which displays memorabilia related to the Imperial Japanese Navy's World War II battleship Yamato, in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture. The number of visitors to the museum has plunged since massive flooding hit western Japan, including Kure, in July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Museum in disaster-hit western Japan city

Photo taken on Aug. 2, 2018 shows the inside of Yamato Museum, which displays memorabilia related to the Imperial Japanese Navy's World War II battleship Yamato, in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture. The number of visitors to the museum has plunged since massive flooding hit western Japan, including Kure, in July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clean-up work in flood-hit areas of western Japan

A volunteer pushes a loaded wheelbarrow during clean-up work on July 31, 2018, in Kure, a Hiroshima Prefecture city heavily damaged by floods following torrential rain that hit western Japan earlier in the month. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heat wave in Japan

A volunteer washes his face during clean-up work on July 18, 2018, in Kure, a Hiroshima Prefecture city heavily damaged by floods following torrential rains that hit western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb history resonates with youth through animated film

Tokyo-based actor Minori Omi speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 10, 2017. Omi voiced the part of Keiko, the sister-in-law of the protagonist in the animated film "Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni" (In This Corner of the World), which draws on historical records to tell the story of a woman living in Kure, a city adjoining Hiroshima, when Hiroshima was devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb history resonates with youth through animated film

Tokyo-based actor Minori Omi speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 10, 2017. Omi voiced the part of Keiko, the sister-in-law of the protagonist in the animated film "Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni" (In This Corner of the World), which draws on historical records to tell the story of a woman living in Kure, a city adjoining Hiroshima, when Hiroshima was devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Defense Minister Inada inspects MSDF base

Defense Minister Tomomi Inada inspects a Maritime Self-Defense Force base in the western Japan city of Kure on July 3, 2017. The visit came after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered a historic defeat in the Tokyo assembly election the previous day, apparently partly affected by controversial comments she had made in a stump speech about the Self-Defense Forces supporting one of the party's candidates. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima households lose water supply

KURE, Japan - Some 47,000 households in Hiroshima Prefecture lose their water supply after a powerful earthquake jolted a wide area of western Japan on the afternoon of March 24. Photo shows residents in the city of Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, receiving water supply from the city's Waterworks Bureau officials.

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3,499 buildings damaged by western Japan quake

KURE, Japan - A powerful earthquake that hit a wide area of western Japan on March 24 partially or fully damage a total of 3,499 buildings as of the morning of March 25. Photo shows a house in the town of Ebara in Hiroshima Prefeture's Kure City destroyed. The quake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale killed two people and injuring 164 people in western Japan centering on Hiroshima and Ehime prefectures.