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The the tremblor set off a tsunami, causing road closures and the suspension of rail services. Today's quake was much weaker than the 9.0 2011 quake which killed more than 15,000 people and generated a massive tsunami which pounded the Fukushima nuclear power facility.
A shrinking contingent of US veterans and survivors of the Japanese December 7, 1944 attack on Pearl Harbor continue to remember the event with horror. 97 year old Elizabeth McIntosh was a young newspaper reporter who covered the attack.
Her editors wanted to her to cover the atrocity "from the woman's point of view"---what ever that was. McIntosh told a reporter that she couldn't figure out why her editors thought a woman's point of view would be any different from a man's.
In her book she wrote, "For seven ghastly, confused days, we have been at war. To the women of Hawaii, it has meant a total disruption of home life, a sudden acclimation to blackout nights, terrifying rumors, fear of the unknown as planes drone overhead and lorries shriek through the streets. READMOREHERE
Pearl Harbor is hallowed ground. The ghosts of thousands of sailor give ground zero a haunting atmosphere. Sometimes ghostly presences show themselves. An auAustralian tourist found out the hard way, that Pearl Harbor is more than a tourist attraction.
What Susan De Vanny, an Australian tourist visiting the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, found was definitely [a ghostly presence].
Susan captured a photo of water over the wreckage with oil shimmering from the sun, and amidst the ripples and light is the image of a ghostly-looking face that appears to be screaming. No, like an actual face. READMOREHERE