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1 April 2011 - 12:50pmOn April 1 2011, Japan’s Self Defense Force and the US military launched a three-day, 25,000 personnel joint operation to recover the bodies of people still unaccounted for in the Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima prefecture coastal areas where over 16,000 people remain missing. Recovering bodies of the... -
31 March 2011 - 11:17amOn 24 March 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter Scale and 10 km depth struck the southern parts of Shan State in the East of the Union of Myanmar (population: 3,870,921) — approximately 300 miles southeast of Mandalay seismological observatory. It was recorded at 20:29:30 hrs Myanmar... -
25 March 2011 - 1:11pmOn 24 March 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck the eastern state of Shan in Myanmar, triggering six aftershocks to date and high risk of landslides. The latest official number of casualties has reached 73 deaths and 125 injuries, and an initial rapid assessment conducted by World Vision... -
25 March 2011 - 9:53amRadiation levels above the legal limit have been detected in tap water, milk and leafy vegetables in prefectures closest to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The Government of Japan has warned residents to not consume any of these products, and four prefectures in the area have been ordered to suspend... -
20 March 2011 - 1:18pmOn 18 March 2011, Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency raised the alert level to five on a seven-point international scale for atomic accidents as officials continued to drop water onto the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The following day electricity was partially restored, but the...
