People in affected areas urged to evacuate as quake registering 7.5 magnitude occurred off the coast of Sanriku
It’s 15 years since the much more powerful magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, ravaged parts of northern Japan. As Associated Press reports, it caused more than 22,000 deaths and forced nearly half a million people to flee their homes.
Some 160,000 people fled their homes in Fukushima because of the radiation spewed from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. About 26,000 of them haven’t returned because they resettled elsewhere, their hometowns remain off-limits or they have lingering concerns about radiation.
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