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"An 8.9-magnitude earthquake followed by a 10-foot tsunami hit the coast of Japan at 2:46 p.m. Tokyo time Friday. It was the most powerful recorded in the country's history, and the seventh largest ever recorded worldwide.\nVictims and concerned parties quickly turned to the web to share news and footage. With the country's phone system down, tweets topped more than 1,200 per minute from Tokyo within the first hour of the quake. Both Ustream and Al Jazeera, among others, posted live video feeds online.\nCitizens have also taken to Flickr and YouTube to share eyewitness accounts from inside their homes and public buildings, and from the streets with their neighbors. We've compiled five of the most illustrative here, most of which are from Tokyo, situated 230 miles from the earthquake's epicenter. (According to early reports, the earthquake originated off the coast of Honshu, the most populous of Japan's islands.)\nCome across any additional, noteworthy footage? Please share it in the comments section below. You can also check out YouTube's CitizenTube channel, which is continually updating a playlist with more content.\n\n\nJapan Earthquake 03/11/2011\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom an apartment in Tokyo.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom the sixth floor of a gym in Tokyo.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGoods litter the floor of a grocery store.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom a third floor apartment in in Minami-Asagaya, Suginami-ku Tokyo.\n\"This only covers about the last half of the intense stuff, total time lasted over three minutes.  The motion started off as usual with side to side jerking but finished with more of a sinking and rising feeling with some side to side motion as well.  All in all it was a huge jolt of adrenaline and I'm thankful my friends here are all safe,\" the videographer wrote.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center\n[via NYT, Social Times]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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