Fire and Flood in Japan
日本火災(zāi)洪水
Houses burn amid flood waters on March 11 after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a powerful tsunami.
3月11日,日本遭受8.9級(jí)大地震襲擊并引發(fā)可怕海嘯。災(zāi)難發(fā)生后,無(wú)數(shù)房屋被泡在洪水中,部分起火燃燒。
The earthquake—the strongest in Japan in 140 years—struck 81 miles (130 kilometers) off the coast of Sendai at 2:46 p.m. local time. A port city of about a million residents, Sendai was hit by tsunami waves up to 33 feet (10 meters) high.The earthquake and its aftershocks were felt as far away as Tokyo, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) from the epicenter.
當(dāng)?shù)貢r(shí)間下午2點(diǎn)46分,大地震襲擊仙臺(tái)沿海81英里(130公里)的海域。地震引發(fā)的海嘯隨即襲擊這個(gè)大約100萬(wàn)人口的港口城市,海浪高度達(dá)到33英尺(10米)。這是日本140年來(lái)遭受的最大地震,距離震中大約250英里(400公里)的東京也感到震感和余震。