THE BIGGEST TSUNAMI IN JAPAN, WHAT A DISASTER!

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 EARTHQUAKE shook northeastern Japan, unleashing a savage tsunami.

In Japan, residents are still recovering from the disaster. As of February 2017, there were still about 150,000 evacuees who lost their homes; 50,000 of them were still living in temporary housing, Japan's Reconstruction Agency said.

The unexpected disaster was neither the largest nor the deadliest earthquake and TSUNAMI to strike this century. That record goes to the 2004 Banda Aceh earthquake and tsunami in Sumatra, a magnitude-9.1, which killed more than 230,000 people.