Saturday, March 12, 2011

DESPERATION, PANIC GRIP JAPAN AFTER QUAKE, NUCLEAR EMERGENCY


By Reuters
japan aftermathFUKUSHIMA, Japan - Survivors of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami huddled in shelters and hoarded supplies on Saturday as rescue workers searched a mangled coastline of submerged homes, cars and stranded boats.

Aerial footage showed buildings and trains strewn like children's toys after powerful walls of seawater swamped areas around the worst-hit city of Sendai, about 130 km (80 miles) from the earthquake's epicentre.
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