A report from Japan : disaster relief efforts of pharmacists in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake : forum

A massive earthquake, with a magnitude of 9.0, occurred off the Sanriku coast of the Tohoku region, Japan at 14:46 (JST) on 11 March, 2011. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the earthquake registered a 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale in Kurihara city, Miyagi Prefecture, and 6-plus across wide areas of the Tohoku and Kanto regions, including Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Tochigi Prefectures.