Rikuzentakata, Japan, After Tsunami
Color-enhanced satellite view of the Japanese city of Rikuzentakata, one of the locations hardest hit by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 (image taken three days later). For a comparison of the same location under normal conditions in 2007, see image BS0542. In the wake of the tsunami, the coastline of Rikuzentakata has been totally reshaped. A long barrier beach with well-vegetated land, visible in 2007, is almost completely gone from the waterfront in 2011. North of that, flood water sits on agricultural fields. East of Rikuzentakata, a large mass of peach-colored floating debris appears in 2011. Debris, both floating and resting on land, extends eastward to Otomo, much of it lying over what had been farms. The debris mass very likely contains material swept out of Rikuzentakata.
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