WAKUYA, Japan (March 15, 2011). An aerial view of damage to Wakuya, Japan after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area in northern Japan. Captions and Photo source: ©© US Navy
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Residents of towns in the Alaska Panhandle have begun picking up plastic bottles, chunks of foam insulation and floating buoys from Japan’s 2011 tsunami…
It’s been more than a year since a massive quake devastated northeast Japan, and the debris believed to be from that disaster is now washing up more than 4,000 miles away in Alaska. The Styrofoam that’s washing up breaks into little pieces and the wildlife, thinking it is food, will eat it, causing a negative chain reaction…