An elderly woman shuffles through a city wiped off the face of the earth by the 25m (82 ft.) high tsunami which arrived 30 minutes after the largest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history, Rikuzen-Takata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. In Rikuzen-Takata 10,547 residents, nearly half the population of roughly 26,000 people, are living in evacuation shelters. Japan Self Defence Forces say they have found 300 to 400 bodies there. About 5,000 of the city’s houses were submerged by the quake-triggered tsunami.
