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Japan is beginning the after Friday’s deadly earthquake and tsunami. The death is currently at 573 with hundreds people missing. Most of the people died in the tsunami, which was to ten metres high. Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency says the of destroyed buildings has reached 3,400, but that is expected to . In the quake-hit , around 5.57 million households have no electricity, while more than one million homes have had their water supply off.

The -earthquake is the seventh largest ever recorded. It northeast Japan at 2:46 p.m. with a magnitude of 8.9 on the Richter . It was felt as away as Beijing, China. The following tsunami has completely away large parts of Japan’s north. The is in tens of billions of dollars. Fifty-three countries in the Pacific Rim were put on tsunami . Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan said his focus now is to stop a nuclear power plant from overheating. Scientists radioactive steam from the plant to reduce the pressure it.