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SENDAI (Kyodo) The death toll from Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan will likely surpass 10,000, thepolice chief of hard-hit Miyagi Prefecture said Sunday. Before and after: These photos from GeoEye show Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, as the city was last April (above) and after it was devastated by Friday's tsunami. AP PHOTOS As the nation continued to grapple Sunday with the widespread damage,the number of people reported dead or missing topped 2,000 while engineers scrambled to deal with acrisis escalating at one of two nuclear plants in Fukushima Prefecture. The magnitude of the devastating quake was meanwhile revised upward the same day from 8.8 to 9.0, making it one of the largest in history, the Meteorological Agency said. According to the agency,said there is a 70 percentchance of another quakegreater than magnitude 7 occurring within three days, and a 50 percent chance of one hitting in the three days after that. As of 2:45 p.m., more than 2,000 people had been reported dead or unaccounted for, police said, while the official death toll topped 800. In Fukushima Prefecture alone, 1,167 people weremissing and well over 600 bodies had been found in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures.

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