The news this morning on CNN was extremely misleading - they had the headline "Nuclear reactor leak" with an infographic showing red lines going throughout most of Japan.

The graphic was actually of the quake radius, not of the extent of the leak! It seems the leak was relatively minor and apparently harmless.

There's a disaster not often anticipated by the average joe. I wonder how many nuclear reactors are operating in areas know to be highly earthquake prone?

Unfortunately the entire earth is earthquake prone.
We live on an ever changing rock. volcanoes pop up where they want. They even blow up like Mount St. Helen's. We are all living on borrowed time.