The earthquakes that have ravaged Japan as the new year gets underway bring back chilling memories of 2011.
The powerful March 11 earthquake and tsunami claimed close to 20,000 lives across swathes of the country’s eastern coast.
The magnitude 9 earthquake and its immediate aftershocks lasted five minutes and had the energy equivalent of 8,000 Hiroshima atom bombs.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 150 miles northeast of Tokyo, was severely damaged by the earthquake and a 32-foot tsunami.
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