The Calamity of Japan's 9.0-Magnitude Quake

Dust and sand blow through a town leveled by the earthquake.
Issei Kato / Reuters

Aftermath
A man walks with his dog at a destroyed residential area in Miyagi Prefecture, nearly two weeks after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 22, 2011.

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