The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami is a MW 9.0 earthquake off Japan occurred at 5:46 pm UTC (14:46 local time) on January 11, 2011. Earthquake epicenter located off the East coast of Oshika peninsula, Tōhoku 72 kilometres at a depth of 32 kilometres. Japan Meteorological Agency recorded the strongest intensity of the disaster at a level 7 in Northern Miyagi Prefecture, the level 6 in the other provinces and the level 5 in Tokyo.The earthquake caused a tsunami that spread along the Pacific coast of Japan and at least 20 countries, including the western coast of North and South America. 38.9 m high tsunami that has hit Japan just minutes after the quake, in a few places the tsunami entered the Mainland 10 km.The national police agency of Japan officially validation has 15,893 men killed, wounded and 6,152 2,572 people missing in 18 provinces of Japan and more than 125,000 homes were damaged or completely destroyed. The earthquake and the tsunami have caused serious damage in many countries, including the heavily damaged about road and rail as well as cause of fire in many areas, accompanied by a dam break. About 4.4 million households into power and 1.5 million households lost water. Many power plants were decommissioned, and at least 3 reactor explosion caused by hydrogen gas leaks have occurred at the home contained the reactor when the cooling system is completely broken.
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