How Close is the Philippines to Japan

Below is an image from Google Earth: (Please click on the image to zoom)

Based on the map above, there is no other country between the Philippines and Japan. What lies between is a big ocean. Although it is quite far, big waves brought by a tsunami can be expected.

I have encircled some of the significant places with regard to the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan in the afternoon of March 11, 2011.

Light planes and vehicles sit among the debris after they were swept by a tsunami that struck Sendai airport in northern Japan on Friday March 11, 2011.

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