Huge Japanese dock washes up in Oregon 15 months after tsunami

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ORTLAND, Oregon — A huge floating dock cast adrift by Japan’s killer tsunami has washed up on an Oregon beach, believed to be the biggest pieces of flotsam to make landfall on the U.S. West Coast so far.

The 66-foot (20-metre) long rectangular structure, made of concrete and metal, was spotted floating off the coast on Monday, and then washed in with the high tide on Agate beach, 100 miles (160 kilometres) southwest of Portland.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) contacted Japanese diplomats, who confirmed that it was from the March 11, 2011 tsunami, and had drifted 5,500 miles (8,850 kilometres) across the Pacific over the last 15 months.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06...after-tsunami/

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It's still almost unbelievable to me that such a disaster happened. Strange that no one in RL mentions it