Aceh. Haiti. New Orleans. Sichuan.  Christchurch. Kashmir. 9/11.

It's the same. Waking one day, believing everything to be the usual when at one part of the world far away, life has changed in inexplicably, terrifying, unexpected ways.

On March 11th, Japan experienced an approximately 9.0 Mw scale earthquake off the coast of Sendai, Honshu in the Japan Trench. It is likely to be the largest earthquake to have ever hit Japan in its recorded history. Not long after, tsunami waves hit Japan's Pacific Coast, with even 10m-high tsunami waves flooding the Sendai Airport. At least 600 are dead with 300 bodies found in one of the worst-hit cities, Sendai. About 700 are  missing, according to the Tokyo Broadcasting System.

Tsunami alerts have been raised in Hawaii, California and Oregon.

Japan Incident Map of Earthquake and Tsunami