A magnitude 9.0 quake happened in Japan Friday 11-03-2011, shaking buildings in Tokyo for several minutes. Japanese officials confirms that there are more than twenty thousand dead, with thousands more injured or missing. Within the same 24-hour period more than 150 aftershocks of magnitude greater than 4.5 occurred.
At the time of earth quake and tsunami in Japan, an eighty aged women and an young boy escaped to life from the collapsed building waste after nine days.Thirteen Japanese military trucks spent about one-and-a-half hours in the morning spraying 90 tonnes of water at the spent fuel pool of reactor No.4 at the nuclear power plant, 240 km northeast of Tokyo to avoid such drastic accidents. The magnitude-9 earthquake hit the Pacific coastal areas of northeastern Japan March 11, triggering an enormous tsunami that also led to explosions in three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima power plant.
Another earth quake happened on 11and 12-4-2011 it was about 7.1 and 5.6 magnitude. Japan raised the severity of its nuclear crisis to the highest level, putting it on a par with the world's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in 1986 because of the amount of radiation released into the air and sea. Now a days Japan also suffering nuclear crisis because of heavy earth quake and tsunami. Japan is struggling to regain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated its northeast on March 11, and is facing a major humanitarian and economic crisis.
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