How the nuclear emergency unfolded -- Washington Post

See a chronology and the current status (as of late night Sunday, March 13th -- U.S. East Coast time) of the still worsening Japanese nuclear emergency now involving 8 to 9 reactors in various stages of crisis:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/japan-nuclear-reactors-and-seismic-activity/