a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit northern japan on march 11, causing a tsunamis witch damaged japan nuclear reactors the death toll in the march 11 earthquake and tsunami is believed to be up to 8,805 there are 320,000 evacuees staying in 2,100 shelters the japanese government has ordered that vegetables not be sent out after finding radiation levels above the legal limit and they also orderd them not to ship out any raw milk.white smoke rose monday eveing from the number 2 reactor at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant very high levels of radioactive iodine have been detected in the tap water at litake village measurements showed 965 becquerels perkilogram of radioactive iodine in the water which is above the 300 becquerels standard.