Pressures had been building up since the 17th century. And in the release of that energy displaced a very large volume of water, which resulted in a a 60 meter wave traveling at the speed of an airplane. 2 45 in the afternoon, kids were in school. Parents were at work. Immediately be had a humanitarian situation where families were displaced. This was a 9. 1 magnitude earthquake that change to the tilt of the earths axis. For those that were in tokyo at the time, they experience, as you would expect, a severe shock. The buildings held up. The architecture and engineering held in place. There were provisions in place for tsunami. Of what no one expected in the course of this disaster was the coastline to drop. When the coast line dropped more than 1 meter, it changed the title characteristics of the wave. The wave reached 6. 5 miles inland. Almost like an egg beater. When it reached inland, it grabbed everything that it could and drag it out to sea. It resulted in this incoherent pictur
HANNIBAL — When a winter storm hit on New Year’s Eve, one local church spent the night providing beds to those who would have otherwise slept on icy streets.