The latest here is that the magnitude of the earthquake has been upgraded to a 9.0 on the Richter scale. That is unbeleivably strong and as I said previously it is the strongeest quake in Japan since records have been kept.
Despite the rising death toll there are a number of good news stories. A man who took to the roof of his house was found, still on the debris of his roof with the water lapping around him but get this; he 15 kilometres out to sea!! He was finally rescued when a helicopter spotted him and winched him to safety.
We have seen some emotional reunions between families, husbands and wives and friends who are so overwhelmed with emotion when they find each other alive that they just embrace and burst into tears.
For the normally staid Japanese, to show this sort of physical contact and emotion in public shows the enormous impact this tragedy has had.
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