Background


Time: 2:46 pm local time, March 11, 2011
Epicenter: 130km from Sendai
Magnitude: 9.0

6.1-magnitude quake hits Kyushu, Japan

Japan to ease restrictions on foods in Fukushima

S. Korea runs radiation checks on marine produce

Japan sets power cut goals to avoid summer blackouts

Death toll reaches 12,731 from quake-tsunami in Japan

Status of Japan nuclear plants after Thursday's quake

7.4-magnitude earthquake rattles Japan

Onagawa nuke plant resumes cooling operations

Japan lifts tsunami warning after M7.4 earthquake

Japan races to find tsunami dead despite radiation

Scientists search for nuclear water in Pacific

Japan seabed shifted 24 metres after March quake

Japan eyes 20% cut in foreign aid to fund quake relief

Tsunami-hit towns forgot ancestors' warnings

Japan's key economic gauge rises 0.4 point in Feb

Schools re-open in Japan's quake zone

Sea radiation another blow to Japan's fishermen

Japan tries not to dump more radioactive water into sea

Japan not to seek exception from Kyoto CO2 pledge

Death toll reaches 12,321 from Japan quake-tsunami

Radioactive Iodine found in US drinking water

Radioactive water released into sea

Engineers fail to seal leak at Japan nuke plant

Japan's disaster in figures

China offers counseling to Japan quake survivors

Japan: radioactive water leaking into sea

Crises open doors for Sino-Japan cooperation

Radioactive iodine detected across mainland

Japan's PM vows to win battle against nuke plant

Japan plans to bail out Tokyo Electric Power Co

Japan to take control of Tokyo Electric - media

Japan PM: Stricken nuclear plant must be scrapped

Beijing reports low levels of radioactive iodine

China sends third batch of aid to Japan

J-Power halts construction work on Ohma nuclear plant

Magnitude-6.0 quake jolts northeast Japan

TEPCO claims could top $130b on Japan nuke crisis

Higher radiation found outside Japan nuke plant

Tainted seafood fears spread as plant leaks

Japan TEPCO president hospitalized amid nuke woes

Obama calls Japanese PM on after-quake support

Japan may require back-up emergency power

Seawater near JP reactor 3,355 times legal radiation limit

China's Red Cross donates another 20m yuan to Japan

Death toll rises to 11,082 from Japan quake

Fuel on its way from China to quake-hit Japan

PM: Japan on 'maximum alert' over nuke crisis

Plutonium detected in soil at nuke plant

China sends 2nd batch of relief materials to Japan

Radiation in seawater may be spreading

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