The Face of Japan Tsunami 2011 - part2

The raw power of the earthquake and tsunami that has shattered Japan has been captured in countless photographs from ordinary citizens. In what is likely the most photographed and filmed disaster in history, the overwhelming sense of loss and horror is shared with the world through sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr.

Here is some of the most compelling footage and images - both professional and amateur - to give some sense of the unfathomable destruction.

A Japanese rescuer walks across an area devastated by the tsunami in Sendai.

Clock struck lies among the rubble in the city of Kesennuma, which is written with "40th Anniversary of Foundation".

Image from Japan's NHK television, white smoke, centre, billows from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex ~ and filmed from 30 kilometres away.

A young Japanese survivor of the earthquake and tsunami searches her family home for any belongings she can find in the levelled city of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan.

Japanese vehicles pass through the ruins of the levelled city of Minamisanriku, northeastern Japan.

Satellite images shows damage after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.

A man rides a bicycle through the rubble in Kesennuma, Miyagi.

Members of a British search and rescue team walk through a smoldering industrial facility in Ofunato.
 

Rescuers search for survivors through rubble of destroyed buildings in Miyagi.

Rubble of destroyed buildings and vehicles are seen in Miyagi, Japan.

Houses are swept by water following a tsunami and earthquake in Natori City in northeastern Japan March 11, 2011.