Post: Japan disaster: 30 powerful images of the earthquake and tsunami
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03-16-2011, 06:15 PM
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Earthquake-triggered tsunami waves sweep the shore along Iwanuma in northern Japan
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Huge waves overwhelm a levee, swallowing the town of Miyako, near the mouth of Hei River
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A tsunami triggered by the powerful earthquake sweeps through Sendai airport in northern Japan
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Houses are swallowed by the tsunami in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture
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A pleasure boat rests on top of a building amid a sea of debris in Otsuchi town in Iwate prefecture
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A survivor pushes his bicycle through remains of devastated town of Otsuchi
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A shopping street is filled with vehicles, including fire engines, washed away by Friday's tsunami in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
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Rescue workers stand on the roofs of destroyed houses in Miyako
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Cargo containers are spread over the ground at an industrial complex in Sendai
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A house is pictured adrift in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan
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A Japan Self-Defence Force member reacts after rescuing a four-month-old baby girl in Ishimaki, northern Japan
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A woman reacts after she was informed of the death of her relatives at an evacuation centre in Kesennuma Town, Miyagi Prefecture
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Firefighting ships try to extinguish a blaze at an oil refinery in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture
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A ship tossed up onto city streets by the tsunami is pictured in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture
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The hand of a victim is seen among jumbled concrete sea barriers in Toyoma, northern Japan
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Rescue workers stand on a road as they search for survivors in Rikuzentakata, northeastern Japan
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Hiromitsu Shinkawa waves to rescuers in a boat as he is rescued by members of the crew of a Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer. When spotted, the 60-year-old man was floating off the coast of Fukushima's Futaba town on the roof of his house after being swept away in a tsunami.
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A girl, wrapped in a blanket, looks at the tsunami damage in Ishinomaki city in Miyagi prefecture
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A classroom devastated by the tsunami is seen at a primary school in Otsuchi, Iwate, northern Japan
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Rescuers stand atop the roof of devastated houses in Ofunato
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These GeoEye satellite images show the Arahama area of Sendai before and after the earthquake struck causing a tsunami that devastated the region
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Burnt out vehicles, that were parked for export, are piled in disarray at a port at Tokai village in Ibaraki prefecture after a tsunami
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An explosion at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station
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The No.3 nuclear reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is seen burning after a blast following an earthquake and tsunami in this handout satellite image taken March 14, 2011. The Fukushima nuclear complex, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, has already seen explosions at two of its reactors on Saturday (reactor No.1) and on Monday (reactor No.3), which sent a huge plume of smoke billowing above the plant.
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A baby is tested for radiation in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture in northern Japan
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03-16-2011, 06:31 PM
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