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Time-lapse visualisation of the March 11, 2011 earthquake off the coast of Sendai, Japan and its aftershocks.

Compare satellite images of areas of Japan before and after the disaster.

Almost 60% of the people killed by natural disasters in the past decade lost their lives in earthquakes, data shows.

Major earthquakes occurring along the Cascadia subduction zone off the coast of Washington state could strike closer to the state’s urban areas than some models have suggested.