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As Japan's nuclear meltdown fears mount, what's the health fallout?

Some of the undersea cables off the coast of Japan shared by the world's telecomm companies have suffered significant damage from the 8.9 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks. So far, there has been little disruption to communications thanks to rerouting data through alternate pathways.

Just after 6 AM local time on Tuesday in Japan, a sound like an explosion was heard near the suppression pool of reactor No. 2 at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This followed an explosion March 11 that ripped the roof off reactor No

Why was Japan's March 11 earthquake so big? One answer is the large size of the fault rupture as well as the speed at which the Pacific Plate is continuously thrusting beneath Japan, U.S. Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) scientist Tom Brocher told KQED News.

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Around 3 P.M. local time on Friday, there was a massive earthquake about 100 miles off the east coast of northern Honshu Island , Japan.

By Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon FUKUSHIMA, Japan, March 14 (Reuters) - Japan scrambled to avert a meltdown at a stricken nuclear plant on Monday after a hydrogen explosion at one reactor and exposure of fuel rods at another, just days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 10,000 people. Roads and rail, power and ports have been crippled across much of Japan's northeast and estimates of the cost of the multiple disasters have leapt to as much as $170 billion

Dr. Jennifer Ashton spoke with Erica Hill on who is most at risk of radiation exposure after Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station experienced a partial meltdown.

Dr. Jennifer Ashton on varying degrees of danger people in Japan face, what could happen and how soon

This afternoon from the stage at South by Southwest , Architecture for Humanity's Cameron Sinclair will announce a $75,000 commitment from donors to rebuilding from the Japanese earthquake, along with a personal pledge: If the donation link bit.ly/sxsw4JP is reTweeted 100,000 times, he'll donate 10% of his own salary. The rebuilding effort will unfold in stages, depending on how much money is ultimately raised.

First came the earthquake , centered just off the east coast of Japan, near Honshu. The horror of the tsunami quickly followed

The extent of the damage at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear facility is still unknown, but comparisons to Chernobyl were inevitable as soon as fuel rods became exposed and an explosion rocked the site .

It is frightening to watch what’s going on with Japan’s nuclear plant at Fukushima. It is also worrying to watch the fear racing around the world as a result of those events, fear that in some cases is far in excess of what’s going on, or even the worst case scenarios of what might happen

GENEVA, March 12 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation(WHO) said on Saturday that the public health risk from Japan's [More]

On March 11, a powerful, 8.9-magnitude quake hit northeast Japan, triggering a tsunami with 10-meter-high waves that reached the U.S. West Coast.