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A magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit northern Japan on March 11, triggering tsunamis that caused widespread devastation and crippled a nuclear power plant. Are you in an affected area? Send an iReport. Read the full report on the quake's aftermath and check out our interactive explainer on Japan's damaged nuclear reactors.
[9:39 p.m. ET Friday, 10:39 a.m. Saturday in Tokyo] Japan's National Police Agency says 7,197 people are confirmed dead and 10,905 have been reported missing. The agency said 2,611 people have been injured. The death toll is expected to continue rising. Japanese national broadcaster NHK is calling it the worse death toll in Japan since World War II.
[9:34 p.m. ET Friday, 10:34 a.m. Saturday in Tokyo] News reports from Japan say that a man has been found by rescuers looking for survivors of last Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan. Newsgroup NHK is quoting the Japanese military. The man was found under the rubble of a collapsed house. He’s now been taken to hospital, where his condition is unknown.
[9:25 p.m. ET Friday, 10:25 a.m. Saturday in Tokyo] The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission asks operators of the Unites States' 104 nuclear power plants to review details of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster and to take actions "as appropriate" to avoid similar problems at their reactors.
[8:18 p.m. ET Friday, 9:18 a.m. Saturday in Tokyo] The president of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, has issued a written apology amid a raised crisis level at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The crisis level has been raised from a 4 to 5. The highest is 7.
In his written apology, Masataka Shimizu said: "We sincerely apologize to all the people living in the surrounding area of the power station and people in Fukushima Prefecture, as well as to the people of society for causing such great concern and nuisance.
"We are taking this reality as an extreme regret, although it was caused by the marvels of nature such as tsunami due to large scale earthquake that we have never experienced before."
[8:06 p.m. ET Friday, 9:06 a.m. Saturday in Tokyo] In a report from national broadcaster NHK World, radiation levels outside the evacuation zone in Japan are not harmful for human health, the World Health Organization says.
The Japanese government issued an advisory on Tuesday to evacuate from a 20-kilometer radius (about 12.4 miles) of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. It also told people living within a 30-kilometer radius (about 18.6 miles) to stay indoors, NHK World says. The amount of radiation being reported outside of the evacuation zone continued to be below the levels considered a public health risk, the spokesman for the U.N. organization said.
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