ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: Fox News
11March2011 11:35pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: TOKYO – Japan's northeastern coast was a swampy wasteland of broken houses, overturned cars, sludge and dirty water Saturday as the nation awoke to the devastating aftermath of one of its greatest disasters, a powerful tsunami created by one of the 
strongest earthquakes ever recorded.
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck the South Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday afternoon local time, according to the US Geological Survey.
The death toll from Friday's massive magnitude 8.9 in Japan's quake stood at more than 200, but an untold number of bodies were believed to be lying in the rubble and debris, and Japanese were bracing for more bad news as authorities tried to reach the hardest-hit areas.
Aerial footage showed military helicopters lifting people on rescue tethers from rooftops and partially submerged buildings surrounded by water and debris. At one school, a large white "SOS" had been spelled out in English.
The earthquake that struck off the northeastern shore was the biggest recorded quake ever to hit Japan. It ranked as the fifth-largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and was nearly 8,000 times stronger than one that devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, last month, scientists said. (read full report)
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