Japan raced to avert a nuclear meltdown today by flooding a nuclear reactor with seawater after Friday’s massive earthquake left more than 600 people dead and thousands more missing. Towns in the country’s northeast coast were literally wiped away by an ensuing tsunami, leaving countless people seeking shelter in the aftermath of the quake, which measured 8.9 on the Richter scale and was the country’s strongest recorded quake. — Lloyd Young 44 photos total)
This is Japan we’re looking at, not some backward country like the U.S.
I’ve been reading that the town of Minamisanriku that is shown ravaged in some of these photos is reporting half of their neighbors unaccounted for – 9,500 people. It is difficult to imagine this sort of destruction, but then you see the photos. It just leaves you speechless.