Photos from quake-hit northeastern Japan

Photos from quake-hit northeastern Japan

KITAKAMI, Japan - Rescue workers continue efforts to search for missing people at a collapsed Japanese-style hotel at a hot spring resort in the city of Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 15, a day after the magnitude 7.2 earthquake jolted northeastern Japan.

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