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Summary Aftershocks are still coming, and several including a 4.9 earthquake in the east shook Tokyo
Aftershocks are still coming, and several including a 4.9 earthquake in the east shook Tokyo on Thursday morning. Now Australia has also restricted food and milk imports from the zone, while Canada became the latest among numerous nations to tighten screening.Many shops in Japans capital ran out of bottled water on Thursday after a warning of radiation danger for babies from a damaged nuclear plant where engineers are battling the worlds worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl. Nearly two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami that battered the Fukushima complex and devastated northeast Japan, Tokyos 13 million people were told not to give infants tap water where contamination twice the safety level was detected. The government urged residents not to panic and hoard bottled water, but many shops quickly sold out.The contamination scare is adding to Japans most testing moment since World War Two after the catastrophe of March 11. The estimated $300 billion damage makes it the worlds costliest natural disaster, dwarfing both Japans 1995 Kobe quake and Hurricane Katrina that swept through New Orleans in 2005. Some 25,600 people are dead or missing from the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami waves that swept away whole towns on the Pacific coast.
