On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that hit the coast of Japan, sweeping over towns and villages flattening 400,000 homes and buildings, and killing more than 15,000 people.
It was Japan’s worst peace-time disaster. And, because the tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant causing a major meltdown, it was also the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe since the 1986 Chernobyl accident.
Listen to the segment at Four Years Later, Fukushima Disaster Has No End in Sight
