(From Science Daily) The huge tsunami triggered by the 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake destroyed coastal towns near Sendai in Japan, washing such things as houses and cars into the ocean. (more…)

(From the AP) A tsunami surge from Japan’s magnitude-8.9 earthquake swept along the southern half of California on Friday, sinking a few boats, turning harbor waters brown and drawing sightseers but causing no widespread damage. (more…)

(From the latimes.com) Although most of Southern California escaped harm from the tsunami generated by the 8.9 magnitude  earthquake off Japan, waves damaged boats and some docks on Santa Catalina Island. (more…)

(From the latimes.com) The Coast Guard on Friday night called off its search for a 25-year-old man who was swept out to sea while taking pictures of tsunami waves that hit the California coast. The man, whose name has not been released, was taking photos near the mouth of the Klamath River in Crescent City, just south of the Oregon border, when he was swept into the Pacific Ocean, Coast Guard officials said. (more…)

(From the nytimes.com) An explosion at a crippled nuclear power plant in northern Japan on Saturday blew the roof off one building and caused a radiation leak of unspecified proportions, escalating the emergency confronting Japan’s government a day after an earthquake and tsunami devastated parts of the country’s northeastern coast. (more…)