On March 11, 2011, an earthquake hit 43 miles east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku, often referred to in the country as the Great East Japan Earthquake. The earthquake caused a massive tsunami that eventually caused nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The nuclear accident received a Level 7 classification from the International Nuclear Event Scale.

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