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A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 02:23:37 (UTC) on Sunday, March 13, 2011, near the East coast of Honshu, 152 km ESE of Iwaki, Honshu, at a depth of 24.9 km.

Location 36.354°N, 142.287°E

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A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 01:26:07 (UTC) on Sunday, March 13, 2011, near the East coast of Honshu, 132 km ESE of Mito, Honshu, at a depth of 24.5 km.

Location 35.742°N, 141.731°E

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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 10:53:30 (UTC) on Saturday, March 12, 2011, near the East coast of Honshu, 124 km SE from Morioka, Honshu, at a depth of 24.9 km.

Location 39.075°N, 142.352°E

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News reports indicate that more than 503 people have died and 784 are missing in six different prefectures. The estimates of its magnitude would make it the largest earthquake to hit Japan and one of the five largest earthquakes in the world since modern record-keeping began. It is thought to have been the largest earthquake in Japan in the past 1,200 years.
The main earthquake was preceded by a number of large foreshocks, beginning with a 7.2 MW event on 9 March approximately 40 kilometres from 11 March quake, and followed by another three on the same day in excess of 6 MW in intensity.
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Japan quake: Huge explosion at Fukushima nuclear plant

A huge pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima and several workers were injured.
Japanese officials fear a meltdown at one of the plant's reactors after radioactive material was detected outside it.
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Blast, smoke at Fukushima No. 1 plant
Four people have been injured in an explosion that occurred at the No. 1 reactor of the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday.
The explosion was heard at 3.36 pm following large tremors and white smoke was seen at the facility in Fukushima Prefecture, the company said.
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Plant Status of Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station (as of 1PM March 12th )

Unit 1 (shut down at 2:48PM on March 11th)
- Reactor is shut down and reactor water level is stable.
- Offsite power is available.
- At 5:22AM, the temperature of the suppression chamber exceeded 100 degrees. As the reactor pressure suppression function was lost, at 5:22AM, it was determined that a specific incident stipulated in article 15,
clause 1 has occurred.
- We decided to prepare implementing measures to reduce the pressure of the reactor containment vessel (partial discharge of air containing radioactive materials) in order to fully secure safety. This preparation work started at around 9:43am.

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NASA Shows Topography of Tsunami-Damaged Japan City

The topography surrounding Sendai, Japan is clearly visible in this combined radar image and topographic view generated with data from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) acquired in 2000. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck offshore about 130 kilometres east of Sendai, the capital city of Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, generating a tsunami that devastated the low-lying coastal city of about 1 million residents.
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A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 20:11:22 (UTC) on Friday, March 11, 2011, near the East coast of Honshu, 151 km ESE from Morioka, Honshu, at a depth of 8.7 km.

Location 39.025°N, 142.645°E

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A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred at 19:46:49 (UTC) on Friday, March 11, 2011, near the West coast of Honshu, 119 km NW from Akita, Honshu, at a depth of 1 km.

Location 40.472°N, 139.070°E

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