last update : March 17th, 2011
Earthquake Information
A huge earthquake, magnitude 8.8 (now reaanounced as 9.0 as of March 13th) has hit Japan centering Miyagi prefecture, Touhoku area as of 2:46PM, March 11th, 2011. As of March 12th 1:30PM, serious damages are reported on the Pacific coast of the Touhoku area, including Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima prefecture. Many buildings have collapsed, and the area is threatened by repeating Tusnami (tidal waves) and numerous aftershocks. Here are the information on damages in Touhoku area reported by Mainichi Shinbun (daily paper) as of 11:00AM this morning.
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Current Situation
- 6,406 deaths and increasing
- 2,285 sick or injured, increasing
- 5,537 missing and increasing
Mar. 12th, 13:54 The government has just announced radiation leakage has been discovered at Fukushima First Nuclear Power Plant. They have imposed state of emergency. Over 50,000 residents within 10km of the plant have already been evacuated.
Links
Japan Meteorological Agency - warnings on Tsunami
- Transportaion Status
- Flight Status
- Radiation and Health Information
- Shelter Information
- Safety Confirmation System by cell phone carriers
Other Safety Confirmation Service
Blackout Info
Related to the earthquake, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) has announced to hold planned outage due to lack of electricity in the Kanto area.Please refer to Google Crisis Response page for more details.
