Gazette summer intern relates account of earthquake in Japan

The earth shook so hard I had assumed the epicenter was near Tokyo, where we were.

It was frightening to flip on the TV once it was deemed safe enough to be let back into our homes and find what we had just lived through already being broadcast across the world...and learn the center was close to Honshu, more than 200 miles from the capital city, and had spawned that infamous tsunami. We watched the images flashing across the screen in horror—the water rushing over a field, rising around an airport, swirling through the streets as it bashed cars, trees and ships along. The news remained on the...