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  • Japan has experienced the largest earthquake in their history, and I've got everything you need to know to help them out.

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  • Japan is still coping with the largest earthquake to date.

  • Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Khan took to the airwaves Sunday, calling the earthquake the toughest and most difficult crisis for Japan since the end of World War Two.

  • Nuclear power plants are exploding and leaking deadly chemicals into the environment and after shots are reaching 7.0 on the Richter scale.

  • Officially, the death toll stands at just over 1900 but many now expect that to rise more than 10,000 since 2000.

  • Bodies just washed on shore.

  • Today, thousands of people are missing and in some cases whole towns were washed away.

  • Millions of Japanese air without drinking water or electricity, and they're surviving on instant noodles and rice balls.

  • This country is in a state of emergency, and they need all the help they can get for more information on what you can do to help the earthquake and the tsunami relief efforts of Japan.

  • Text Red Cross at 90999 to make a $10 donation.

Japan has experienced the largest earthquake in their history, and I've got everything you need to know to help them out.

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