8.8 Earthquake & Tsunamy - Japan

A horrible 8.8 earthquake has hit north-eastern Japan with waves of Tsunami across most of the Pacific Ocean, most hardly hit are coastal areas in north-eastern part of Japan.

This graphic shows the energy flow of the Tsunami through the Pacific ocean [note: the coast of chile might be hit surprisingly hard, according to this model's estimation].

• Great resource constantly updated are the wikipedia article
• ...and wikipedia article's discussion pages
• Live pages' on telegraph.co.uk

Lives have been lost, and many people are still missing...

Google has also made available their person finding tool: