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at 10 am, an earthquake on a richter scare of 8.9 hit Sendai, Japan, after braking the sea floor in the pacific
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the tsunami drifted from the break in the pacific and traveled west gaining momentum to hit japan with a massive impact. this is when japans tsunami evacuation alarms set off.
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time after people were evacuated the tsunami hit. later on to find that 16,000 confirmed deaths and 2,600 missing.
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US: 11am tsunami waves hit california
hawaii: 7am the waves hit
philippines: after word of tsumani they imediately sounded the alarms waves came with in hours -
there were more than 50 aftershocks in the days following, two of the most significant were on the 7th and 11th of april.
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on the 12th of march 2011, at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant exploded
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two days after the plant set off the 3rd reactor exploded
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the second reactor explodes causing more dangerous levels of radiation.
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cites:
ouramazingplanet.com
thoughtleadership.aonbenfield.com
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110311-tsunami-us-nation-earthquake-japan-hawaii-science-california-waves/#
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/03/11/tsunami-headed-for-hawaii-u-s-mainland/
telegraph.co.uk