Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami

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A foreign traveler looked at the departure board at Narita International Airport. The airport was more crowded than usual with evacuees and travelers heeding warnings from their governments to flee, as Japan struggles with the nuclear crisis

People registered the names of their family members at the reporting center in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture.

 

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Chiyoko Kaizuka, an 83-year old farmer, weeds a spinach field Sunday, March 20, in Moriya, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan. Japan announced the first signs that contamination from its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex has seeped into the food chain, saying that radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near the facility exceeded government safety limits

A fish lies on top of a destroyed car in the earthquake and tsunami leveled town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan Sunday, March 20

 

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Japanese military clear roads to bring in more cranes and bulldozers, March 20, in Ofunato, Japan.

Construction workers build 200 temporary houses on March 20, in Rikuzentakata, Japan. Many people have begun to return to their homes as the search continues for thousands still missing.

 

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A man tries to salvage personal items from his boat, March 20, in Ofunato

A calendar shows the date of the massive earthquake as 86-year-old Teru Suzuki cleans her damaged home in Ofunato March, 20. "It could only be destiny", says Suzuki, after surviving not only the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan last week but two other big earthquakes in her lifetime.

 

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All toilet paper gone from this pharmacy

all toilet paper is gone

 

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Bread is available but by lunch time not much left.

quite a bit of queuing to get the rice.

 

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Earlier on in the evening on the way home - first signs that things are not completely normal. Some vending machines turned off due to the rolling blackouts.

Musashikoyama in Meguro Tokyo. At the Family Mart convenience store all bread and cakes were gone.

 

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People wait in line for a supermarket to open as limited food continues to cause problems for people in the earthquake effected areas March 20, 2011 in Ichinoseki, Japan. More than a week after the magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan the death toll has risen to 8,200 dead with still thousands missing. Presently the country is struggling to contain a potential nuclear meltdown after the nuclear plant was seriously damaged from the quake.

A man holds his dog to keep it warm as earthquake victims pack an evacuation center March 20, 2011 in Ofunato, Japan. More than a week after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, the death toll has risen to over 8,000 with thousands more still missing. Presently the country is struggling to contain a potential nuclear meltdown after a nuclear plant was seriously damaged by the quake.

 

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In this handout image provided by the International Federation of Red Cross Japan, massive debris lies underneath a bridge March 19, 2011in Iwate prefecture, Japan. More than a week after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Japan, the death toll has risen to over 8,000 with thousands more still missing.

In this handout image provided by the International Federation of Red Cross Japan, water covers a heavily damaged road March 19, 2011 in Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture, Japan. More than a week after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Japan, the death toll has risen to over 8,000 with thousands more still missing.

 

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A man searches for a family member in the ruins of a tsunami-hit area in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 20, 2011

Vehicles washed away by the March 11 tsunami still remain blocking a road in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan, Sunday, March 20, 2011.

 

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Debris fills streets in a devastated area in Kamaishi, northern Japan, Sunday, March 20, 2011

a Fishing boat remains stuck to a damaged building at Kadonohama fishing port in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, March 20, 2011

 

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Women neighbors cry upon reuniting each other in the rubble of the tsunami-torn Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 20, 2011

Debris in a municipal swimming pool in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, Japan, March 20, 2011.

 

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A man walks to his car along a broken road in a destroyed fishing village near the Onagawa nuclear power plant on March 20, 2011

A house lies in the sea off a village near the Onagawa nuclear power plant on March 20, 2011