More then 1,000 people are thought to have died, with fears that the death toll could rise significantly. One of the worst-hit areas was the port city of Sendai.

Explosion from a large nuclear powerplant, although it's one of the most secured nuce powerplants in the world...why building it at the edge of a huge tectonic plate?
Tsunami warning center raises magnitude of the Japan earthquake to 9.1.
The 4th most powerful ever recorded.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/brea ... to_91.html
The Earth's rotation axis shifted with almost 10 centimeter because of the Japan earthquake.
http://www.xianet.net/?p=6667
According to NASA geophysicist Richard Gross calculations the Japan earthquake caused
Earth's rotation to sped up by 1.6 microseconds which in turn should've shorten the day 1.26 microseconds.
http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/SCT-FT ... 2.html?HF=
