Killer tsunami in Japan

Killer tsunami in Japan

KITAKAMI, Japan - Train cars of the JR Joban Line are seen overturned on the ground on March 12, 2011, after being swept by tsunami in the town of Shinchi in Fukushima Prefecture after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 hit the country the previous day.

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