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According to Tokyo Electric Power Company, radiations levels within one of the reactors of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, damaged by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011, are at its highest level since experiencing a meltdown, with a reading of 530 sieverts an hour.
2017-02-3

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports a magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes the southern part of the Northern Territory in central Australia. No damage or injuries are reported.
2016-05-20

Japan allocates 820 billion yen ($6.8 billion) for creating a nearly 400-kilometer (250-mile) chain of cement seawalls, at places nearly five stories high, against future tsunami disasters such as the one that struck the country's northeastern coast four years ago.
2015-03-22

April car sales in Japan rise by 92% year-over-year, a gain partially realized due to low sales in the wake of last year's earthquake and tsunami.
2012-05-1

The Premier of China, Wen Jiabao, and the President of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, visit areas of northern Japan devastated by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, ahead of a trilateral summit tomorrow.
2011-05-21

The United States Geological Survey revises the strength of the earthquake to 9.0.
2011-03-15

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano reports that as of 10.22 a.m. local time, radiation levels of 30 millisieverts per hour were measured between the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, while at the No. 3 reactor 400 millisieverts per hour were detected, a harmful level to humans.
2011-03-15

A cooling system fails at two other reactors in the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant following Friday's earthquake with Yukio Edano claiming that meltdowns may have occurred in two reactors.
2011-03-13

There are 9,500 people unaccounted for in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi prefecture.
2011-03-12