06/04/2011.
The Telegraph. Tsunami Japan
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Newly-released pictures show people clinging on for their lives as the tsunami hit Japan. We have made a selection but all are impressive.
The first three pictures in this gallery were taken on March 11 as the tsunami hit Minamisanriku in northern Japan. In the first picture, survivors cling to an antenna mast and handrails on the roof of the Government Disaster Readiness Centre, as the tsunami sweeps in...
...All but nine of the 30 people who were on the roof were swept away by the huge wave...
...The skeleton of the devastated building is all that remains after the water has receded
A floating pontoon normally used as a public fishing park is towed away from a port in Shimizu, central Japan. Shimizu city authority offered the pontoon to TEPCO to help store highly contaminated stagnant water at the compound of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant