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Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

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A firefighter sprays water to clean a street in Yamada.

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A woman sifted through the rubble of her home on Thursday in Kesennuma
 

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Firefighters march toward assigned areas to search for victims in Rikuzentakata, on March 18.

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Exactly one week on, a group of rescue workers observes a minute of silence to mourn for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, Japan, on Friday, March 18.
 

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Japanese soldiers unload food aid from a U.S. helicopter that was dispatched from the USS George Washington near a shelter in the earthquake and tsunami-hit town of Minamisanriku on Friday

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U.S. soldiers and civilians remove debris from the harbor of Hachinohe on Friday
 

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Momoko Onodera prays at an evacuation center as she talks about her husband who died in the tsunami on March 18 in Kesennuma, Japan. A potential humanitarian crisis looms as nearly half a million people who have been displaced by the disaster continue to suffer a shortage of food and fuel as freezing weather conditions set in.

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An elderly woman and a relative are reunited at a center for displaced persons in the devastated town of Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture on March 18 one week after a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit the northestern coast of Japan's main island of Honshu.
 

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two-month old baby evacuated along with his parents from the town of Okuma, Fubata district in Fukushima prefecture where the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, is given a bath by a volunteer, Junko Sakamoto in Koriyama city in Fukushima prefecture on March 18.

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Victims from an evacuation center relax as they take their first bath since an earthquake and a tsunami hit the area in Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture on March 18. The bath house was reopened, offering free baths to people.
 

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A man looks for a relative at a community center used as a shelter in the tsunami-damaged town of Otsuchi on March 18.

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A man checks lists of evacuees at an evacuation center in Rikuzentakata March 18.
 

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Evacuees eat instant noodles for lunch at a shelter in Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture on March 18.

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Evacuees rest in a shelter, 60 km from the nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, in Koriyama on March 18.
 

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A man takes a look at pages from his own family photo album that he discovered in the wreckage a week after the disasters hit Rikuzentakata in Iwate prefecture on March 18.

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A man collects water from a canal in the tsunami-devastated town of Otsuchi on March 18.
 

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People queue to buy gasoline at a destroyed village in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture March 18. The shutdown of a fifth of Japan's nuclear power capacity and nearly a third of its refining capacity following last week's killer quake and tsunami has resulted in a fuel shortage in the country.

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Aiko Musashi carries personal belongings from her destroyed home on March 18 in Kesennuma.
 

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People cook outside their home in the tsunami-damaged town of Otsuchi on March 18.

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A woman walks across a bridge in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on March 18
 

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A survivor walks through debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture March 18.

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Dozens of coffins are pictured on the floor of a hall in the town of Rifu in Miyagi prefecture on March 18. The official number of dead and missing after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan's northeast coast a week ago has topped 16,600, with 6,405 confirmed dead.
 

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Radiation scanning crews check each other's levels as they change their work shift at a screening center in Koriyama in Fukushima prefecture, 60 km west of TEPCO's striken Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, on March 18.

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Officials scan people for radiation, 60 km west of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, in Koriyama on March 18.
 

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A rescue worker walks through rubble in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on March 18.

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A rescue worker searches through debris in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on March 18.
 

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Lights are turned off during rolling blackouts in Misato City, Saitama Prefecture on March 18. Tokyo Electric Power Co has announced rolling blackouts after its power generation was cut due to damage to its Fukushima Daiichi power plant, where it is struggling to prevent reactor meltdowns.

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A satellite image shows damage to the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant at the town of Okuma in Futaba district in Fukushima. Teams of Japanese workers and troops on March 18 battled to prevent meltdown at the quake-hit nuclear plant as alarm over the disaster grew with more foreign governments advising their citizens to flee.
 

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Residents walk on a road past debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, March 18.

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A resident walk through the rubble of homes in Kesunnuma.

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The devastated town can be seen from a cemetery on a hill in Otsuchi.
 

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A fire truck sprays water at No. 3 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture in this still image taken from a video by the Self Defence Force Nuclear Biological Chemical Weapon Defense Unit on March 18, 2011. Engineers have successfully attached a power cable to the outside of the damaged nuclear plant in a first step to help cool reactors and stop the spread of radiation after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan.​
 

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Tsunami damaged airport rescue vehicles sit by the main runway at the Sendai airport in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Saturday, March 19, 2011

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A U.S. Air Force C-130 transport aircraft unloads fuel at Sendai airport in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Saturday, March 19, 2011. The U.S. military have been asked to help clear the debris from last week's earthquake-triggered tsunami to get the airport fully operational as soon as possible.​
 

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Passengers line up to check in to their flights at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, March 19, 2011, eight days after an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. Most of foreign visitors and many Japanese residents are leaving Tokyo after radiation leakage accidents at a quake-stricken nuclear power plant​
 

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A flight attendant (C) holds signboards to guide her passengers as others line up to check in to their flights at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, March 19, 2011​
 

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Motorists queueing on a roadside to buy gasoline at a petrol station in Morioka city, Iwate prefecture, in northeastern Japan on March 19, 2011

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A pump attendant fills up gasoline to a car at a petrol station in Morioka city, Iwate prefecture, in northeastern Japan on March 19, 2011. Motorists in Japan formed long queues out of petrol station, stretching up to 2 kilometres to buy petrol as the country suffered shortage in supply after the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster.​
 
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