What: The biggest earthquake to hit Japan since officials began keeping records in the late 1800s struck off the country's northeast coast March 11 at 2:46 p.m. local time. It was at first designated a magnitude 8.9 and later raised to 9.0.
The initial quake was followed by hundreds of aftershocks, some of them more than magnitude 6.0, and triggered a tsunami that swallowed homes, swept away cars and boats and forced people to scramble to higher ground.
Almost 8,500 people have died and almost 13,000 are missing, officials say.
Where: The quake struck at a depth of 24 kilometres, about 125 kilometres off the northeastern coast of Japan. The massive wave it triggered swamped dikes in the Japan's northeast, leaving a massive trail of debris. Cities and villages along the 2,100-kilometre stretch of coastline were shaken by violent tremors that reached as far away as Tokyo, hundreds of kilometres from the quake's epicentre. The International Red Cross had said more than four million households were without power. By the weelend, about 343,000 Japanese households still did not have electricity, and about one million had no running water.
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There was a biggest earthquake in Japan in March. Becuase of this earthquake, the radioactivity was spread not even on the Japan but all around the East Asia. Japanese economy and GDP decreace alot because of this earthquake, and the media and tredn in Japan has been crashed badly.
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