 Complete the following phrase:  On 11 March 2011 at 2:46 p.m., Japan suffered from the strongest recorded earthquake in its history, affecting places in the three regions of Tohoku, Chubu and Kanto in the northeast of Honshu, including the Tokyo area. The quakes magnitude of 9.0 approached that of the severe December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in South and Southeast Asia, and also the severe January 2010 Haiti earthquake and with the severe February 2011 New Zealands 