10th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

10th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

People pray in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, at 2:47 p.m. on March 11, 2021, one minute after a massive earthquake struck northeastern Japan exactly 10 years ago, triggering a killer tsunami.

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