Search and Rescue in Japan

Local residents look at damaged houses brought by the huge tsunami in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture on March 12, 2011. More than 1,000 people were feared dead and authorities warned a meltdown may be underway at a nuclear plant Saturday after a monster tsunami devastated a swathe of northeast Japan.

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