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The Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency issued a new provisional rating for the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the IAEA International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES)

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There are about 700 not 50 workers, engaged in the daily struggle with the invisible enemy at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant as reported by the foreign media, leading Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun sought to clarify.

Information about the Situation Caused by the Earthquake of Hamadori in Fukushima Prefecture

Japan nuclear agency has raised severity level of the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant Tuesday to rank it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Shares of Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) fell 3.15 percent in the after-hours trading, after reporting its first quarter sales that missed Street view as the dollar weakened.

University of Utah geophysicists have made the first large-scale image of the electrical conductivity of the plume that powers the Yellowstone supervolcanp, and found it looks bigger than anyone thought it was.

U.S. stocks advanced in early trade on Monday as successful acquisitions by U.S companies and anticipation of solid first-quarter corporate earnings buoyed sentiment.

The IAEA confirms that an earthquake occurred in Japan at 08:16 UTC 11th April. The IAEA International Seismic Safety Centre has rated it as a 6.6 magnitude, revised from an initial 7.1 magnitude.

The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan has apparently withstood the latest aftershock that struck off the coast of the battered nation on Monday, according to the plant’s operator.

U.S. stocks advanced in early trade on Monday as anticipation of solid first-quarter corporate earnings buoyed sentiment.

Japan issued tsunami warnings for parts of the north-east coast on Monday following a powerful aftershock exactly a month after the devastating magnitude-9 earthquake created waves that killed an estimated 28,000 people.

The impact of last month's earthquake in Japan on the $214 billion cellphone industry will be under the spotlight when the world's top phonemakers report their quarterly earnings from next week.

Local travel agencies are reporting of tourism to have started gaining momentum in the country, a month after the massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which triggered the tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan.

Following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan, authorities issued a tsunami warning. As the epicenter of the quake was in Fukushima prefecture, authorities ordered immediate evacuation of workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

The aftershocks of the fresh earthquake that hit north-eastern Japanese coast on April 11 were felt in Tokyo and nuclear workers at the Fukushima plant were temporarily evacuated, according to reports. Reports said power was cut off at Fukushima plant after the quake. Broadcaster NHK's footage showed office workers holding nerve inside ruffled up offices were fittings and equipment hung from the ceiling.

Another 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit east and northeast Japan near Honshu on Monday, exactly a month after the the deadly, massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which triggered the tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan.

One month after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and an ensuing tsunami ripped Japan's Pacific Coast, the country continues grim search for the dead in the ruins.

Here's a combination of images taken in 1982 and on March 31, 2011, showing before and 25 years after view of the abandoned city of Prypiat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in North Ukraine.

One month ago, a massive 9.0 earthquake and one of the worst tsunamis in history struck northeastern Japan. Many people in the most impacted areas still have immediate needs for shelter and supplies.

As radiation levels in the power plant exceeded safety levels, workers struggling to control the overheated reactors faced threats to their health and life.