On this episode of the Global News podcast 'Whatever happened to…?', journalist Erica Vella revisits the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the nuclear crisis that followed.

The strength of the quakes was measured at 4.5 and 4.7 on the Richter scale, but Earthquakes Canada says quakes under 5 on the scale rarely cause damage.

It was the deadliest quake to hit Turkey in nearly a decade.

Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 60 people and injuring more than 900.

The earthquake, which the Istanbul-based Kandilli Institute said had a magnitude of 6.9, was centred in the Aegean northeast of Samos.

Fourteen people died and at least 419 people were injured in an earthquake that struck the Aegean coast of Turkey.

In an update just before 7 p.m. ET, Emergency Management B.C. said there is “no threat” to the province.

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Roads and bridges were cracked in Cataingan, the coastal town nearest the epicenter, according to reports and photos of the aftermath.

The National Weather Service in Greenville said the 5.1-magnitude temblor struck at 8:07 a.m., following a much smaller quake several hours earlier.