Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, March 2011

Maps

Japan Earthquake March 2011 US Recommended Evacuation Zone

General interest maps of Japan

Earthquake and tsunami maps

General news sources

Access World News [links to English language news sources from Japan; IUB authorization required]

Kyodo News [Japanese news agency]

NHK World [English language news from Japan Broadcasting Corporation]

BBC News

CNN

Guardian

PBS Newshour

Japanese official sources

Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet

Countermeasures for the Great East Japan Earthquake

NISA [Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency]

News releases [Japan Meteorological Agency]

Damage situation and Police Countermeasures [statistics on deaths/missing persons/injured persons and property damage from National Police Agency of Japan]

Embassy of Japan in the United States of America

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

International sources

International Atomic Energy Agency Alert Log

Japan:  Earthquake and Tsunami - Mar 2011 [from ReliefWeb]

IAEA Update on Japan Earthquake

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami [from WHO]

US government sources

Japanese Nuclear Emergency:  EPA's Radiation Air Monitoring

NRC Actions on Japan’s Emergency [from U.S. NRC]

Significant Earthquakes:  Magnitude 9.0 - near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan [from USGS]

Japan Quake [images from NASA]

Japan's Earthquake and Tsunamis [from the State Dept.]

Scientific and technical information

2011 Tohoku Earthquake [from Tokyo University, in English]

Kita Azuma - Pacific Ocean coast earthquake on March 11, 2011 (tentative Ver2) [from Tsukuba University, in English]

Preliminary Rupture Modelling of the March 11, 2011, Tohoku-Chiho Taiheiyo-Oki Earthquake using the USArray Transportable Array [from Harvard University]

Earthquakes within the last week [lists aftershocks, in English, from Japan Meteorological Agency]

For more general information, see our Green Box country page on Japan.