Japan's historic quake

Japan's historic quake

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the letters ''SOS'' on an athletic field at Shizugawa High School, as people await rescue in tsunami-devastated Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture on March 13, 2011, two days after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake. (Kyodo)

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