The flooded Higashi-Matsushima airport, near Sendai
The flooded Higashi-Matsushima airport, near Sendai
This radar image, acquired by the German Earth observation satellite TerraSAR-X on 12 March 2011 at 21:43 CET, shows the impact of the tsunami on Higashi-Matsushima Airport and the port of Ishinomaki, near Sendai, on the east coast of Japan. The blue areas indicate the flooding; the magenta-coloured areas show the extent of the destroyed infrastructure.
