And then something went horribly wrong.

I left my iMac on before going to work yesterday and there was a power outage in my building. When I returned home for the day, after finding out about the power outage, I went to turn my iMac on. Everything seemed fine, I had sound and video. While it was in the loading screen, it restarted on its own. It did an endless cycle of loading and then restarting. I never got past the loading screen. I was about to see if I could just reformat the HDD by reinstalling the OS, but I already had a disk in the drive. Any ideas of why it would get stuck in that cycle of loading and restarting? I would take it to a mac genius, but I am currently stationed in Okinawa, Japan and there are no apple stores around.

I think you answer your own question about this by telling us that there is a disk stuck in the drive. Next time you start it up, hold down the mouse key: that should eject the disk. If you have a bluetooth mouse, it might be an idea to borrow a USB mouse from a friend: anything will do.
It may be premature to think about reformatting.
When the disk comes out, it is time for repairs. Start gently with a simple, Safe Boot: hold down the Shift Key at startup. That may make things a little more stable. If you have it, start up with the Install disk in the drive (slide the disk in then press the start button). As it starts, hold down the C key. Select the language, but do not install, look at the menubar and select Utilities. With Disk Utility, you can try First Aid and Repair the disk.
Let us know what happens.

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