The Calamity of Japan's 9.0-Magnitude Quake

A girl rides her bicycle past wreckage in a town devastated by the March 11 8.9- magnitude earthquake and tsunami.
Kazuihiro Nogi / AFP / Getty Images

Yamada, March 19, 2011
A girl rides her bicycle past wreckage in a town devastated by the March 11 8.9- magnitude earthquake and tsunami.

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