The following is a chronology of events in the past 10 years related to the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. <READ FULL STORY>March 11, 2011 -- Magnitude-9.0 earthquake strikes off Miyagi Prefecture, with subsequent tsunami hitting wide areas of northeastern Japan and triggering a nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi power plant.March 12 -- Hydrogen explosion occurs at the Fukushima plant's No. 1 reactor building.March 13 -- Police say over 450,000 people have been evacuated.March 14 -- Hydrogen explosion occurs at No. 3 reactor building. Tokyo Electri…READ FULL ARTICLE