The Tohoku Earthquake Facts  The Japanese Prime Minister Naoto
Kan called the Tahoku Earthquake "the toughest and the most
difficult crisis for Japan, since the end of the second World
War.  The Earthquake was a 9.0 magnitude undersea mega-thrust
off the coast of Japan. It happened at 2:46pm on Friday, 11
March 2011 with the epicenter approximately 70 kilometers east
of the Oshika Peninsula of Tonoku and the hypocenter at an
underwater depth of almost 32km. It has been named the most
powerful known earthquake to have hit Japan. It lasted six
terrifying minutes. The nearest major city to the quake was
Sendai, on the main island of Honshu, 130km away. The quake
occurred 373km from Tokyo. Once the quake hit security alarms
ere triggered all over Japan. Even though, tragic the advanced
seismic technology that Japan possesses prevented the loss of
many more lives. One minute before the earthquake was felt in
Tokyo, the Earthquake Early Warning system, which includes more
than 1,000 seismometers in Japan, sent out