assistance for a disaster that will ultimately claim the lives of over 18,000 people. 50,000 Japan Self-Defense Forces personnel, 190 aircraft and 25 ships are deployed to help with rescue efforts. Up to 45 million people will be affected in the rolling outages, which are scheduled to last until April. Rolling blackouts begin in parts of Tokyo and eight prefectures. About 9,500 people in a single town (half the town’s population) are reported to be unaccounted for.

As evacuation orders expand, at least 6 million homes - 10 percent of Japan’s households - are without electricity, and 1 million are without water. As aftershocks hit the Nagano and Niigata prefectures, a nuclear emergency is declared at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 180 miles from Tokyo. Sixty to seventy thousand people living nearby are ordered to evacuate to shelters. An hour after the quake, waves up to 30 feet high hit the Japanese coast, overtopping tsunami walls, sweeping away people and vehicles, causing buildings to collapse, and severing roads and highways. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami warning for the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the U.S. on March 11, 2011, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake strikes 231 miles northeast of Tokyo. CHIEF OF PLANS, LOGISTICS OPERATIONS CENTERĪt 2:46 p.m.

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