Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

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Passengers sleep on the floor as they wait for their flight at Narita airport, east of Tokyo March 17. Public trust in the Japanese government faces its biggest test since World War Two over the handling of the nation's nuclear crisis.

A couple hugs each other before one of the pair will board a flight at Narita international Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo March 17.

A dog receives a radiation exposure scanning in Koriyama March 17.

 

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Sugawara Haruto, center, plays with other children at Sezugawa Secondary School, which has been set up as an evacuation centre and is now home to more than 280 people, in Minami Sanriku in Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan on March 17. Of the 17,000 residents that called this tourist magnet fishing village their home, more than 10,000 remain missing.

Sisters hug each other when they meet at a makeshift shelter in Minamisanriku, northern Japan on Thursday, March 17.

 

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Former firefighter, Shuichi Ishigawa, 61, looks for his missing son Masahide, also a firefighter, in a toppled firetruck he found in the coastal city of Rikuzentakada.

wo elderly women and a pet dog pass by a ship that was washed into their neighborhood by the tsunami as they try to make their way to search for their destroyed home in the leveled city of Kesennuma, March 17.

 

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A member of Fairfax County search and rescue team of Virginia works at the destroyed fish market in Ofunato.

Members of Self Defense Army covered bodies in Minamisanriku.

 

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Evacuees sit through an earthquake at a temporary shelter at a stadium in Koriyama

Displaced people, including 53 who were saved from a retirement home during the tsunami, take shelter inside a school gym in the leveled city of Kesennuma in northeastern Japan on March 17

 

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Children wait in a vehicle as their parents collect belongings from the family's devastated home before heading to a makeshift shelter in Kamaishi, northern Japan on March 17.

Survivors react after collecting their belongings at their destroyed house in a village hit by an earthquake and tsunami in Otsuchi, northeast Japan on March 17.

 

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Japanese soldiers search through the rubble looking for tsunami victims in Minamisanriku.

A damaged car is part of the debris in after the quake and tsunami devastated Minamisanriku.

 

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A view of the destroyed buildings in the city of Ofunato

The body of a victim is marked with a pole after it was retrieved from the rubble in Rikuzentakata

 

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Survivors of Friday's earthquake and tsunami carry belongings picked up from their damaged houses in Higashimatsushima

Katsuo Maiya, 73, cries in front of the rubble where his sister-in-law's house stood in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture. Maiya's sister-in-law and her husband were killed in the March 11th earthquake and tsunami.

 

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Japanese firefighters lower the body of a victim from a two-story house in Kamaishi. The bodies of one man and three women were found in the house.

A Japanese rescue worker searches a building during attempts to recover more bodies in Minamisanriku.

 

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Sendai residents crowd a morning market featuring fresh vegetables that just arrived for sale on Thursday.

People line up outside a supermarket in downtown Sendai on Thursday.

 

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Japanese Self Defense Forces searched for survivors in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture

A resident looked at the devastation in Otsuchi, northeast Japan.

 

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A woman holds her dog as they are scanned for radiation at a temporary center for residents living close to the quake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Koriyama

Earthquake and tsunami survivors' notes seek information about missing relatives and friends
at the entrance of Natori City Hall in Miyagi Prefecture.

 

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A blanket of snow covered the destruction in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi prefecture.

A gas station worker talks to fuel-seeking drivers who stayed overnight in front of the station despite a sold-out notice in Ichinoseki, northern Japan early Thursday, March 17.

 

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An official in a full radiation protection suit scans an evacuated woman and her dog with a geiger counter to check radiation levels in Koriyama city in Fukushima prefecture on March 16

Evacuees from the west side of Fukushima receive radiation scans in Nihonmatsu city, March 16.

 

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Firefighters continued a search operation under snow in Minamisanriku on Wednesday.

Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces searched through debris in Ofunato, Miyagi Prefecture.

 

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A boy and his family were rescued by Japan's Self-Defense Forces in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.

Youths carry a woman from a shelter in Miyako, northern Japan on Wednesday.

 

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Police officers carry the body of a victim in Rikuzentakata, Miyagi on Wednesday.

A rescue worker stands on top of a burned vehicle looking for more bodies amid the rubble of Kesennuma,

 

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Evacuees, right, received lunch boxes from volunteers at a shelter in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture

A woman shopped for food from almost empty shelves at a supermarket in Morioka.

 

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A boy was among those waiting in line outside a gas station in Kamaishi.

Chieko Chiba looked for the remains of her house in the Shishiori township of Kesennuma on Wedneday.

In Kesennuma, the six-mile inlet that nurtured the town also proved its undoing, channeling and compressing the tsunami’s power until, at the end, the wave towered nearly 50 feet high.