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UK Telegraph reports that dramatic video footage shows the moment the massive tsunami tore through northeastern Japan, swallowing everything in its path and dragging, ships, cars and houses out to sea.

In Miyako city, in Iwate prefecture, tsunami waves barrelled into a narrow bay, sending water surging over an embankment and hurling ships in to buildings.

Houses, cars, trees and anything else that stood in the way was churned up and became part of the advancing morass, adding to its destructive power as it moved hundreds of yards inland

The 30 foot high tsunami was triggered by an offshore earthquake of a magnitude 8.9 and was followed by more than 50 aftershocks.