Update: The Disaster's Aftermath, Coping With Tragedy

Californians are all too familiar with earthquakes. It may be fair to say that Californians and the Japanese are among the most prepared for a major earthquake. But the quake that struck Japan is unparalleled. We take a brief look at some of the stories that have come out of the tsunami. We will add stories to our list throughout the day.

An alarming report of a tide of bodies washing along Japan's coastline has been released. The Associated Press said the discovery raises the death toll, which is already at 1,900.  However, the police chief in Miyagi has estimated as many as 10,000 have died in his province alone.

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Dustin Weber was survivor, said people who knew him.

But there was little he could do against nature's wrath.

On March 11, Weber was swept out to sea at the mouth of the Klamath River in Northern California by a tsunami surge, according to the Associated Press. He had been trying to photograph the surging waves.

The 25-year-old had survived drug abuse and was trying to put his life in order, the AP report said.

His would be the first death of a person on the West Coast by a tsunami since 1964, when 11 people in nearby Crescent City died from the surge created by an earthquake in Alaska, according to the AP report.

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The tragedy in Japan has evoked emotions from tsunami survivors around the world.

For many of those who survived the Indonesian tsunami in December of 2004, the memories are all too fresh.

Some recall their story of survival.

 Since the earthquake, the Senen General Hospital in Takajo town, near Miyagi prefecture's capital of Sendai, has been dealing with aftermath. They have little food and no power or running water.

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A seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey has told The Huffington Post that the quake that caused the massive tsunami created a gigantic rupture in the sea floor, 217-miles long and 50 miles wide. It also shifted some (not all) of Japan's coast by eight feet.

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As victims of the earthquake and the tsunami cope with the tragedy, cold weather has crept in to add to the misery. Many huddle in emergency centers, but they are without water, power and proper food, officials said.

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See images from the disaster on AOLnews.com.