【新唐人2011年3月12日讯】日本3月11日发生历来最猛烈的8.9级地震。《共同社》表示，估计超过1千人死亡。这次地震还引发了至少5波大海啸，其中最严重的一次高达10米。电视画面显示海浪摧毁农舍、农田、公路和车辆等。海啸的场景像是电影《2012》的真实版，让人感觉人类在大自然面前，显得仓白无力。
Japan’s 8.9 magnitude quake triggers tsunami.
A massive 8.9 magnitude quake hit northeast Japan on Friday (March 11), triggering a 10-metre tsunami that swept away everything in its path, including houses, cars, boats and farm buildings which were on fire, media and witnesses said.
At least one person was killed in Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, where four million homes were without power. The quake caused many injuries, fires and a wall of water across the coast, prompting warnings for people to move to higher ground.
There were several strong aftershocks. In the capital Tokyo, buildings shook violently.
TV pictures showed a vast wall of water carrying the debris and even fires across a large swathe of coastal farmland near the city of Sendai, which has a population of one million.
Public broadcaster NHK showed flames and black smoke billowing from a building in Odaiba, a Tokyo suburb, and bullet trains to the north of the country were halted.
Black smoke was also pouring out of an industrial area in Yokohama’s Isogo area. TV footage showed boats, cars and trucks floating in water after a small tsunami hit the town of Kamaichi in northern Japan. An overpass, location unknown, appeared to have collapsed into the water.
Kyodo news agency said there were reports of fires in Sendai where waves carried cars across the runway at the airport.
The western prefecture of Wakayama ordered 20,000 people to evacuate after further tsunami warnings.
Taiwan later issued a tsunami alert for its north and eastern coasts.
