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'''Sendai''' is a city in the [[Japanese]] [[Honshu]] island. It is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture. On March 11, 2011, Sendai suffered a catastrophic damage from a magnitude 9.0 offshore earthquake and the 10-meter (33-foot) high [[tsunami]]'s waves. The epicenter was 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Sendai, and 373 kilometers (231 miles) northeast of [[Tokyo]]. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the [[earthquake]] occurred at a depth of 24.4 kilometers (15.2 miles) beneath the seafloor.[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=49621] In August 2005 a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 had hit also Japan's north-east coast.
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A massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake and several powerful aftershocks struck the eastern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 (12:46 a.m. in Washington), triggering a tsunami that devastated the coastline north of Tokyo with waves up to 10 meters (33 ft.) high. The earthquake epicenter was in the western [[Pacific Ocean]], 130 kilometers east of Sendai. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2011/03/11/ST2011031100651.html?sid=ST2011031100651]
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[[File:Sendai, Japan March 2011.jpg|400px]]
Sendai, March 2011.
== See also ==
*[[Ainu]]
*[[Kamakura]]
*[[Kyoto]]
*[[Nara]]
*[[Aomori]]
== External links ==
*[http://www.cnbc.com/id/42057306/Dispatches_from_Sendai_Japan Dispatches from Sendai, Japan.]
[[Category:Japan]]
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A massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake and several powerful aftershocks struck the eastern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 (12:46 a.m. in Washington), triggering a tsunami that devastated the coastline north of Tokyo with waves up to 10 meters (33 ft.) high. The earthquake epicenter was in the western [[Pacific Ocean]], 130 kilometers east of Sendai. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2011/03/11/ST2011031100651.html?sid=ST2011031100651]
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[[File:Sendai, Japan March 2011.jpg|400px]]
Sendai, March 2011.
== See also ==
*[[Ainu]]
*[[Kamakura]]
*[[Kyoto]]
*[[Nara]]
*[[Aomori]]
== External links ==
*[http://www.cnbc.com/id/42057306/Dispatches_from_Sendai_Japan Dispatches from Sendai, Japan.]
[[Category:Japan]]