Japan Tsunami 2011

The 9.1-magnitude undersea earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, caused a powerful tsunami, which in turn caused a meltdown of 3 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Official figures released in 2021 reported 19,747 deaths, 6,242 injured, and 2,556 people missing from this tsunami disaster.

I saw this factoid in an article about the tsunami that hit Japan in early 2011…I want to know: what do they mean '2556 people missing'…am I to believe that that many people were swept out to sea? OMG! How horrible. And their family having nothing to bury.