Initially they call it the "Great East Japan Earthquake." Later it becomes known as the
2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. We will remember it for a long time under the name
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster.
To put it in perspective:
On 12 September 2012, a Japanese National Police Agency report confirmed 15,883 deaths, 6,146 injured, and 2,654 people missing across twenty prefectures, as well as 129,225 buildings totally collapsed, with a further 254,204 buildings 'half collapsed', and another 691,766 buildings partially damaged. Add to this the level seven meltdowns of three nuclear power reactors and eventual scrapping of all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site.