Poor Japan has really felt the worst of it in the last few days.

First, the largest recorded earthquake in Japan, measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale, hit northeast Japan on Friday afternoon, which triggered a 10 metre tsunami, hitting the coastal town of Sendai, in northern Japan. On top of this, an explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant blew apart the building that surrounds the plant’s Number 1 reactor. You can see a brief outline of events here.

Nearly 2,500 people have died as a result of the earthquake and tsunami.

Here is a map of just some of the affected areas.

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