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Shocking images of Japanese earthquake tsunami sweeping cars off the highway

March 11, 2011 Sorin Adam Matei

Update: Images filmed the very moment the tsunami hit Sendai

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Images shot right when the tsunami hit the cities of Northeastern Japan. Terrifying…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3AdFjklR50[/youtube]

Incredible slideshow of devastation provoked by Sendai earthquake and Tsunami.

Sendai port chuuo park

Sendai March 12, 2011

Sendai Airport & Tsunami

sendai tsunami, a gallery on Flickr.

Photo MSNBC.

Daiichi Fukushima Nuclear Plant reactor explosion

Possible meltdown at the Japanese nuclear power plant. Over 170,000 people were evacuated from an area 12 miles around the reactors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdbitRlbLDc

Map of Fukujima plant. 2011 Sendai Earthquake Epicenter is in the middle of this map

Zoom in by pressing the + button to see the latest Plant pictures

Areas 2011 Sendai Tsunami Impact

NOAA estimation

2011 Sendai earthquake tsunami

Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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