A powerful earthquake of 8.9 on the Richter scale, took place Friday morning in Japan. Initially announced magnitude was 7.9 degrees Richter. Seismic movement was followed by three aftershocks of lesser intensity. One of them, of 7.4 degrees on Richter scale was recorded at 30 minutes from the initial earthquake. According to preliminary information, thousands of people were injured.

Atlantis could be located in an area of Spain. The region is a swamp, which shows structures similar to those described by Plato in his writings in the year 360 BC Dr. Richard Freund, who runs Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, worked with a team of Spanish scientists, Americans and Canadians to consider a muddy swamp in Spain, which was first noticed as a possible location for Atlantis, by a German scientist using satellite photographs taken in 2003, informs AvonPatch.