IT WAS THE MOST POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE EVER TO HIT JAPAN AND THE FO...

2011. It was the most powerful earthquake ever to hit Japan and the fourth largest everrecorded in the world. The earthquake triggered a massive tsunami that flooded morethan 200 square miles of Coastal land. Waves estimated to be as high as 38 meters, theheight of a 12-story building, tore apart Coastal towns and villages, carrying ships inlandas thousands of homes were flattened, then washed tons of debris and vehicles back outto sea. Damage to the reactors at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant thencaused a third disaster, contaminating a wide area that still forces nearly 100,000residents to live as evacuees. Tsunami waves also swept across the Pacific, causingdamage or disruptions in Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.Casualties from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan may be 30,000 and close to