| 1 | Planes and vehicles that were swept away by the wave at Sendai airport, north of Tokyo. | |
| 2 | But some clues suggested that the Sendai region might be capable of greater violence. | |
| 3 | But some clues suggested that the Sendai region might be capable of greater violence. | |
| 4 | Sendai, after all, is home to Tohoku University, one of the nation's top science and technology schools. | |
| 5 | Given that history, seismologists in Japan did not consider great earthquakes to be a threat to the Sendai area. |