1900. and it was 8,000 times stronger than the one that devastated christchurch new zealand just last month. there is an official death toll that will go up. but now, officially death toll 413. 784 people are still missing. and over 1100 people are injured. and police say that there are about 200 to 300 bodies that have been found along the coast, which is the biggest city in the area sort of closest to the quake s epicenter, thankfully this, was a couple hundred miles from tokyo. and you can only imagine what kind of devastation there might have been and how much higher this, as high as death toll is, how much higher koit have been had it struck in a major metropolitan area like tokyo. it was 80 miles tout sea.