Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

Tsunami survivors cook and eat in front of their damaged home.


Los Angeles Fire Department rescue members search through destroyed houses for survivors.


Members of the Chinese International Search and Rescue Team search for victims inside a ruined house in Ofutano.

Rescue workers are searching for missing people in Minamisanriku.



A boat sits in the street of the town of Hishonomake after being washed onshore by the tsunami

A rescuer searches for survivors in the devastated Sendai.


People walked through the destroyed port town of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan, where a senior police official estimated that the number of dead would "certainly be more than 10,000." The town's population is just 17,000.


Residents eat emergency rations in front of a heater.

In Kesennuma, north of Sendai, huge fishing trawlers were brought to land by the force of the tsunami.


The tsunami devasted Kesennuma, and desperate survivors continued to search for signs of missing friends and relatives.


Soldiers and a rescue worker carried the body of a resident through Kesennuma on Tuesday.

Survivors searched for names of missing people on a list of registered evacuees at temporary shelter at Kesennuma city hall.


A child in Kesennuma on Tuesday.

Japanese soldiers searched damaged areas of Ofunato for trapped survivors on Tuesday.


Members of the Japan Self Defense Force walk in a deployment line as they search tsunami damaged parts of Ofunato on Tuesday.

Firefighters fight a blaze in Kesennuma City on Tuesday.



A member of a British search and rescue team searches for trapped survivors in the cab of a truck bowled over by the tsunami in Ofunato, on Tuesday. Two search and rescue teams from the U.S. and a team from the U.K. with combined numbers of around 220 personnel, searched for trapped survivors.


Japanese relief workers rescue a man who survived being buried for four days in the tsunami devastated remains in Ishimaki town, Iwate prefecture, on Tuesday. Another woman was also pulled from the rubble and was being treated for hypothermia.

A truck dangles from a collapsed bridge in Ishinomaki, on Tuesday.


Rescue workers search for missing people at Minamisanriku town in Miyagi prefecture on Tuesday.

Bodies found in the ruins of the devastated residential area of Otsuchi are collected in a sports hall, Tuesday. In the fishing town of Otsuchi, 12,000 out of a population of 15,000 have disappeared.


A fireman looks through pictures found in ruins of the devastated residential area of Otsuchi. Tuesday.

Survivors of an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami receive treatment at the Ishinomaki Red Cross hospital in Miyagi prefecture.


People walk along a flooded street in Ishimaki City, Miyagi Prefecture in Northern Japan


Firefighters arrive to rescue people from a hospital in Minamisanriku City

Smoke billows from fire-gutted vessels in waters off Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Japan confronted devastation along its northeastern coast on Saturday, with fires raging and parts of some cities under water after a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1,000 people.


Cars waiting for export burn after strong earthquake on March 12, 2011 in Tokai, Ibaraki.


Evacuated people at a school forms SOS sign with chairs on March 12, 2011 in Sendai, Miyagi,

Passengers sleep at a lobby as they wait for their transportation at Haneda Airport in Tokyo.


Vehicles sit on three-story buildings on illustrating the devastating effects of tsunami that hit the town of Onagawa in Miyagi prefecture.


This aerial view taken during an AFP-chartered flight shows a ship washed ashore near Sendai

An area destroyed by the tsunami in Sendai in Miyagi prefecture


A boat washed ashore crushing a home near Sendai in Miyagi prefecture three days after quake.

Syunsuke Doi, left, mourns after finding the bodies of his wife and two children at a makeshift morgue built after last week's earthquake and tsunami in Higashimatsushima, Monday.


A woman looks over notes left for survivors at the Natori's City Hall, where assistance for disaster victims had been set up. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese people had been displace as a result of last week's disaster.

One thing the Japan disaster showed is when disaster hit, all foreigners pack up and leave, leaving behind the true blue japanese people with the humongous task of rebuilding the country.

When the re-building is done, and country boom again, these foreigners will be back again...

Cestbon said:

Expected tonight about 2m wave will hit Pulau Tekong and Ubin. Without this 2 island will direct hit Punggol area.
So keep clear of water in East side.
And condolence to all. RIP

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You got nightmare? Hug your mummy please.

Tonight has come and go. Day break already! Can open eyes liao!
Can go swimming in Changi Point. Wave there is 2 millimetres.

garlic said:

One thing the Japan disaster showed is when disaster hit, all foreigners pack up and leave, leaving behind the true blue japanese people with the humongous task of rebuilding the country.

When the re-building is done, and country boom again, these foreigners will be back again...

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Hope our government is aware of this. No foreigner will stay. As you rightly pointed out, they will return only when normalcy resumes. Hard and brutal truth.

japanese gov said that it is under control, do you believe them?

or you believe the amercian who said this.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave a significantly bleaker appraisal of the threat posed by Japan’s nuclear crisis than the Japanese government, saying on Wednesday that the damage at one crippled reactor was much more serious than Japanese officials had acknowledged and advising Americans to evacuate a wider area around the plant than the perimeter established by Japan.

lianbeng says the Jap govt always tell lies to their people.
they censored the Jap occupations from their children's history books so that they won't know their war crimes.
God said: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." Exodus 20:16 - God hates lies!

Singaporean donates S$1 million

by Neo Chai Chin
Mar 17, 2011SINGAPORE - She appeared unprepared for the media's presence and flash of cameras as she walked into the meeting room at the Japanese Embassy.

In the end, Ms Elaine Low, 24, left most of the talking to her father for what is the biggest single donation given to the quake and tsunami victims in Japan.
Ms Low, who handed a S$1 million cheque to Japanese officials yesterday, said: "We want to offer our help to them."
The daughter of mining magnate Low Tuck Kwong said the idea came to her last weekend. "But during that time, the Japanese Association wasn't linked up with the Red Cross Society yet. So we made a phone call (on Monday) to the embassy and got it arranged after that."
Mr Low, 63, said his daughter made the donation with her own money.
Mr Low is the president commissioner of integrated coal producer PT Bayan Resources, which supplies coal to Japanese power plants - including one in Tohoku in northern Japan - and steel mills.

Mr Low said his son travels "quite often" to Japan for business.
Mr Low was Singaporean but became an Indonesian citizen in 1996 and is now a permanent resident here.
Last year, Forbes ranked him as the seventh-richest man in Indonesia, with an estimated net worth of US$2.6 billion (S$3.3 billion).
Ms Low is a Singaporean and heads business development at PT Bayan Resources.

Father and daughter are also board members of Singapore HealthPartners, the group developing an integrated healthcare and hospitality complex at Farrer Park.
They have made donations of between S$50,000 and S$200,000 in humanitarian aid to disasters in China and Indonesia.
Ms Low's donation will first go to the Red Cross, said Mr Kazuo Shibata, president of the Japanese Association, Singapore.
The Singapore Red Cross has received S$235,000 in the two days since it began making collections.
Japanese Ambassador to Singapore Yoichi Suzuki said the priority is to save as many lives as possible and that they are assessing the damage and the needs of those affected.
"Once we have a better assessment of where the needs are, we will consult with the local municipalities to distribute the money according to the needs of the affected people," he said.

Mr Suzuki said the donation will boost the morale of the quake victims in Japan.

He added that Singapore is among countries that have "expressed the strongest wish to help". The Singapore Government has donated S$500,000.
Asked what message they had for the Japanese people, Mr Low said: "Ganbatte ("press on" in Japanese)."
Ms Low's message was equally short. "Stay united," she said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SARA GROSSE