As of March 16, at 8:00 p.m. local time, 4,255 people were killed, 2,282 injured, 8,200 are missing following Friday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, National Police Agency of Japan reports.

On March 11, the biggest earthquake (9 magnitude) in the recent years hit the northeast of Japan, triggering a 10-meter tsunami and followed by several powerful aftershocks. The epicenter is located 373 to north-east from Japan’s capital, Tokyo at the depth of 24 kilometers. A massive earthquake damaged cooling functions of the Fukushima nuclear plant, making the operator to pour seawater into reactors and let out radioactive air into atmosphere.

Thirty Armenian citizens in Japan were not affected by the quake. The Armenian Foreign Ministry keeps in touch with the Armenian Embassy in Japan.