The Japan Tsunami Sweeps Cars and House in Tokyo

TOKYO - An earthquake measuring 8.9 ricter scale (SR), which hit Japan's north coast this afternoon, resulting in a four-meter-high tsunami wave that swept dozens of cars, boats, and buildings in Tokyo.

It was reported that currently one person reportedly died and tens of others injured in Tokyo.

A television footage showing the tsunami waves that brought mud sweeping farmland in the city of Sendai.

"This is a rare earthquake and the damage occurs very quickly in a matter of minutes," said Fire and Disaster Management official Junichi Sawada Japan, as reported by the Associated Press on Friday (03/11/2011).

The officers are now combing the amount of damage, the injured and the dead, but until now still has not obtained the results as a whole. Police said one person had died from the ruins of houses in the area tertiban Ibaraki, north of Tokyo.

While the fire occurred at Cosmo Oil refinery in Ichihara city near Tokyo.

When an earthquake happens, the passengers on the subway exit and walk away, because the electrical network disconnected. It is reported that approximately four million building is no longer electrified.

TOKYO - A television footage shows the tsunami waves swept dozens of cars, boats, and buildings in Tokyo. A large boat carried by a wave of direct ocean waves crashing into a retaining wall in Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture.

The officers are still getting details of the impact damage, the number of injured victims, and the death toll from the earthquake.

In the heart of Tokyo's great buildings shake. The workers took to the streets for cover. A TV footage showed a building on fire and thick smoke covered. Thus was launched from the Associated Press, on Friday (03/11/2011).

A large hall at Kudan Kaikan, collapsed and the number of wounded is still unknown.

The footage is also seen in office workers Sendai clashing. Books and papers were falling. Records also show a bus stop from glass shattered by the quake.

Japan has just hit by an earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale followed by a tsunami wave that reached a height of 6 meters.