Unseen World on Instagram: "March 11, 2011 — a date Japan will never forget. At 2:46 PM, one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history — magnitude 9.1 — struck off the coast of Honshu. Moments later, walls of water over 40 meters high crashed into the Tōhoku region. Entire towns vanished within minutes. The force of the quake was so immense that it shifted Japan’s main island by 2.4 meters and even tilted the Earth’s axis by nearly 10 centimeters. Days became 1.8 milliseconds shorter. Mor

History Photographed on Instagram: "The 2011 tsunami, triggered by the massive Great East Japan Earthquake, devastated many coastal towns along the Tōhoku region, with the Miyagi, Iwate, and Fukushima prefectures suffering the most catastrophic damage. ⁠ ⁠ Waves as high as 40 meters completely overwhelmed seawalls, traveled several kilometers inland, and destroyed or washed away entire communities and villages. ⁠ ⁠ The scale of the disaster was so immense that, despite Japan's advanced preparedn