Japan's strongest-recorded quake

Japan's strongest-recorded quake

SENDAI, Japan - A rescue worker guides an elderly woman, who spent the night at an elementary school (in background) in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011, a day after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 hit the country.

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