Floating Houses Pose Bigger Test for Ships Than Japan Radiation
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Houses, cars and tractor-trailers washed out to sea by a 28-foot tsunami are clogging shipping lanes off Japan, posing a bigger challenge to U.S. Navy vessels and commercial lines than radiation from a leaking nuclear plant.
The magnitude-9 earthquake that struck off the northeast coast March 11 launched a wall of seawater that obliterated cities and towns, and left more than 27,600 people dead or missing. More than 206,000 buildings were destroyed, damaged or swept away, the National Police Agency said today.