An article in Science Magazine. "Prior to 11 March 2011, this bay on Japan's Pacific coast, east of Sendai, was famous for wakame seaweed and oysters cultured on ropes and racks suspended from buoys. The massive tsunami unleashed by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake that day swept all that away, as well as most of the fishing boats and onshore facilities." Read the full article: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6132/546.full