Tohoku Tsunami Satellite Images

Deadly Tohoku Tsunami – Before and After Images

Sendai’s Higashi-Matsushima Airport Inundated by Tsunami Floods

This radar image, obtained with the German Earth-observation satellite TerraSAR-X on 12 March 2011 at 21:43 CET, shows the effect of the tsunami on Higashi-Matsushima Airport and the port of Ishinomaki in the Sendai region on the east coast of Japan. The blue areas indicate flooding; the magenta-coloured areas reveal the extent of the destruction. Credit: DLR. Click image to enlarge (2.9MB)

The port of Sendai after the tsunami

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Impact of the deadly Tohoku tsunami shown in a 12 March 2011 satellite image. The ‘before’ image is added for comparison. Credit: DLR/Rapid Eye. Click image to enlarge.

Death Toll Update

About 8,200 have perished, with another 12,300 people missing. Japanese police say as many as 15.000 people may have been killed in Miyagi prefecture alone.

Radiation Update

Taiwanese officials have found contamination in a batch of fava beans exported from Japan, although the amount, they said, was too small to be pose any threat to human health.

Links  to DLR Satellite Images

Disaster Extent Map – Japan – Sendai Region

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• Medium resolution map (JPEG, 1.92 MB)

Related Links

• Japan’s Triple Disaster Update Mar 20
• Japan Earthquakes: FIRE-EARTH Forecasts and Recent History

Tsunami-hit Sendai Coast – Satellite Images

Tsunami impact on Sendai, Japan

Flooded fields on the tsunami-hit Sendai coast. Some of the fields are still waterlogged a week after the deadly tsunami spawned by the 9.0Mw Tohoku Megaquake caused much destruction along Japan’s eastern coast of Honshu. Photo-like image taken by ALI on NASA’s EO-1 satellite on March 18, 2011. Click image to enlarge. Download larger image (7 MB, JPEG)

Death Toll

Death toll in Japan’s twin disasters has reached about 7,400 with up to 11,000 others still missing.

Less Love for the Japanese Victims?

US charitable organizations have raised $64 million for Japan since the Tohoku Megaquake struck last Friday, a report said.

Six days after the Haiti earthquake struck, however, the same charities had raised $210 million. And in a similar period after Hurricane Katrina hit the US Gulf Coast they had raised $457 million.

Canadians also donated far less money to Japan than they did Haiti, a report said.

In the week following Haiti’s devastating quake last year, the Humanitarian Coalition (CARE Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec and Save the Children Canada) raised $3.5 million. In the last 7 days, however, they have only raised $450,000 for Japan.

One reason might be that donors no longer trust charity organizations. They are wising up to the money black hole created by the international charity mafia. The sad fact is a great number of charities eat up as much as 95% of the contribution dollars. [See also comments about Haiti donations posted on this blog.]

Related Links

• Japan Earthquakes: FIRE-EARTH Forecasts and Recent History

Tsunami and Megaquake Satellite Images:

• Japan Megaquake Shaking Intensity Posted on March 19, 2011
• Japan Tsunami Rikuzentakata Damage – Satellite Images Posted on March 18, 2011

• Japan Tsunami Floods Kitakami – Satellite Images Posted on March 17, 2011
• Tsunami Damage at Ishinomaki, Japan – Satellite Images Posted on March 15, 2011
• Japan’s Tsunami Floods – Satellite Images Posted on March 13, 2011
• JAPAN MEGA QUAKE UPDATE 3 – March 12