A 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck degrees northern Japan on Friday generating tsunamis and causing massive displacement of water with boats and debris, including remains of houses.
The epicenter was 373 kilometers away from the capital, Tokyo, the U.S. Geological Survey, but residents of the city felt the tremors.
The quake shook buildings and caused an unknown number of cars to rush the bridges into rivers.
waves pushing the waste flowed shipwrecks and trailer homes to the roads.
In Tokyo, thousands of people gathered in the street tried to find his family via cell phone.
Scenes in office buildings showed papers strewn on the floor and people clung to their seats and desks.
An earthquake so big and so little depth, creates a lot of energy, Chen said spokesman Shenz U.S. Geological Survey.
Following the quake caused a blackout that affected nearly 4 million households in Tokyo and its surroundings.
A tsunami in the Pacific is moving closer to the coast in other countries, said Ivan Cabrera, meteorologist CNN.
added that have been issued tsunami warnings for several countries, and that earthquakes of this size can generate potentially dangerous tsunamis on the coast outside the region of origin.
This earthquake was the latest in a series in the region this week.
the early hours of Thursday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck the coast of Honshu. A day earlier, an earthquake of 7.2 magnitude struck the same area
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