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Five Years Later: The Great Sendai Earthquake: Media

March 11, 2016, marks the fifth anniversary of one of the largest disasters of modern times, the Great Sendai Earthquake (also known as the Great Tōhoku Earthquake).

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Aerial view of the destruction in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, three days after...
Airman 1st Class Katrina R. Menchaca/U.S. Air Force photo
Shaking Intensity
This map of the northern part of Japan's main island of Honshu depicts the intensity...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski