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Snapshot: Developments after major Japan earthquake

Following are main developments after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck northeast Japan on Friday and set off a tsunami.

- More than 1,800 people likely dead or missing from the quake and tsunami, Kyodo news agency says.

- Kyodo reports 10,000 people in one town unreachable.

* Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have risen above the safety limit but says this posed no "immediate threat" to human health. An explosion blew the roof off the plant, but authorities had said radiation levels were lessening.

* Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano says efforts to eliminate radiation risks focus on air being vented out of the reactor and water being supplied to it.

- Evacuation ordered of 110,000 from 20-km (12-mile) radius around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 30,000 from 10-km (6-mile) radius around nearby Fukushima Daini plant. Kyodo says 300,000 evacuated overall, 5.5 million without power.

* Jiji news agency says a further 19 people may have been exposed to radiation from the reactor. The nuclear safety agency had earlier said up to 160 people may have been exposed.

- Nuclear safety agency rates the incident a 4 on the 1 to 7 International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, less serious than Three Mile Island, which was a 5, and Chernobyl at 7.

- Quake triggers tsunami up to 10 meters (30 feet). Waves swept away homes, crops, vehicles and submerged farmland.

- Bank of Japan to hold policy meeting on Monday. The central bank vows to ensure financial market stability.

- Toyota Motor Co to suspend operations at all 12 factories on Monday.

- Total insured loss could be up to $15 billion, equity analysts covering the industry say.

- Disaster sends oil, metals, and grain prices sliding on fears over its impact on demand, deepening their biggest decline in months; yen rises broadly on risk aversion by Japanese investors and expectations of repatriations by Japan's insurance companies; oil prices slide more than $3 a barrel.

- Tokyo Stock Exchange to trade as normal on Monday.


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Tsunami-swept Japan ship found, all 81 rescued

Japanese naval and coastguard helicopters have found a ship that was swept out to sea by a massive tsunami and airlifted all 81 people aboard to safety, Jiji Press reported on Saturday.

The ship was owned by a shipbuilder in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture.


Friday's massive quake struck just under 400km north-east of Tokyo, creating a 10m tsunami wave that hit the Pacific coast of Honshu island near Sendai city.

The monster wave wreaked vast destruction, smashing ships into towns and tearing away entire houses.

Television footage on Friday shot from a helicopter showed a large whirlpool offshore created by the tsunami that tossed around ships.

The quake was the largest ever to hit Japan, the fifth strongest tremor worldwide since 1900 and the seventh strongest in history, according to the US Geological Survey and Japanese seismologists.

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Japan police find another 200 bodies

Japanese police say they have found another 200 bodies in quake-hit coastal areas in northern Japan.

A police official in Miyagi said Sunday authorities were recovering the bodies. The official declined to be identified, citing department policy. He declined to give further details.

Friday's 8.9 quake was the biggest to hit Japan since record-keeping began in the late 1800s and one of the biggest ever recorded in the world. It was followed by a massive tsunami.

According to lastest report, Japan's Meteorological Agency says it has upgraded the magnitude of Friday's catastrophic earthquake to 9.0.

The agency earlier measured it at 8.8. The quake was already the biggest to hit Japan since record-keeping began in the late 1800s and one of the biggest ever recorded in the world.

The agency warned Sunday of more strong aftershocks following the quake, which unleashed massive tsunamis in northern Japan and killed at least 763 people.

The U.S. Geological Survey has measured the quake at magnitude 8.9, and that number remained unchanged Sunday.