Quake rescue efforts

Quake rescue efforts

SENDAI, Japan - Personnel continue to search for quake and tsunami victims through debris and rubble at Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 15, 2011. The area was hit by the historic earthquake and tsunami disasters on March 11.

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