Tsunami and earthquake shake Japan in 2011

On March 11, 2011, the tsunami expanded from Japan through the Pacific Ocean; the most affected areas were Miyagi and Fukushima.

For more than two minutes Japan was shaken by an earthquake, the strongest in its history which affected houses, buildings and roads and then came a tsunami, which swept the northeast of that country.

The telluric movement shook dozens of cities and towns along the coast of Japan while Tokyo City wobbled.

The violent wall of water 10 meters high swept away houses, cars and boats, and caused fires.

At that time the true dimension of the disaster was unknown, so the entire Pacific was put on alert, including coastal areas of America, but the swell that reached those places was not as strong as expected.

NASA geophysicist Richard Gross calculated that the Earth's rotation accelerated by 1.6 microseconds, which was due to the change in Earth's mass caused by the earthquake, which made the day a little shorter.

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