THE TSUNAMI

The peak height of the tsunami was around 40.5 meters which is about the size of your average 13 storey building. The tsunami made it about 10 kilometers inland at Sendai the closest city to the epicenter of the earthquake. The people of Sendai had only 8 minutes after the earthquake stooped and the wave hit. The tsunami also hit the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The size of the wave that hit the power plant was about 15 meters and caused 3 of the power plants nuclear reactors to meltdown because the reactors overheated and started to release radioactive particles into the atmosphere.