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Great Kantō Earthquake
Kantō Plains in the Japanese main island was struck by an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the richter scale with an eastimated 180,000 casualties. -
Great Hanshin earthquake
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck near Kobe killing 6,00 and leaving more than 300,000 homeless. -
Tohoku Earthquake
The largest earthquake to ever hit japan with a magnitude of 9.0. The death toll was little less than 16,000 and in conjunction caused billions of dollars worth of damage. -
Tohoku tsunami
Less than an hour after the Tohoku quake a massive tsunami struck the coast adding further damage. -
Share values for multiple Japanese companies drop drastically.
A severe drop in share values for a multitude of companies within Japan severely drop with Tepco's shares droppingby 62 percent four days following the incident. -
55 percent of the fuel in reactor unit 1 had melted, as well as 35 percent of the fuel in unit 2, and 30 percent of the fuel in unit 3
Millions of dollars of nuclear fuel begins melting in three different reactors is completely melted. -
Japan begins rehearsing natural disaster drills
Japan begins to practice drills to prepare for future disasters and to decrease the time first-responders take to begin evacuations. -
Yasuhiro Sonoda drinks glass of water collected from a puddle on the site of the power plant
Sonoda drank a glass of water at a national safety press conference. The water was extracted from a puddle at very close proximity to the reactor to demonstrate the safety of it. -
Cold shutdown is reached
At this time all of the damaged reactor's coolant systems are fully operational putting a halt to any further damage caused by the meltdown. -
All fuel removed from reactor 4
Reactor four is completely purged of any excess fuel.
