Massive Tsunami Hits Japan, Airport Flooded, Country Devastated

A massive, massive Tsunami of magnitude 8.8 – 8.9 on the Richter’s scale, hit Japan’s northeastern coast this morning (14:46 Japanese time), causing devastation to where it went.

The country’s meteorological agency sent out early warnings a Tsunami of magnitude 7.9, but later updated it to 8.9.

Even the Parliament was adjourned as the Tsunami shook the country. An estimated 300+ are believed to have been killed (another 400+ missing), and an airport completely flooded (the Sendai second-class airport).

Officials say that huge waves of muddy waters as high as 10 meters slammed the city of Sendai, its farms and the Cosmo oil refinery (in Ichihara city, where fires erupted) in its way. So goes the name, the "2011 Sendai Earthquake And Tsunami."

It’s apparently the worst earthquake to hit Japan in a century, and the seventh largest in the world among those recorded