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Globe photo editors pick the most powerful images of the Japan earthquake
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A Japanese survivor of the earthquake and tsunami rides his bicycle through the leveled city of Minamisanriku, in northeastern Japan March 15, 2011.
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![Chieko Chiba walks through the rubble after going to see her destroyed home March 16, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi province, Japan. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images/Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)]( "Chieko Chiba walks through the rubble after going to see her destroyed home March 16, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi province, Japan. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images/Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)")
Chieko Chiba walks through the rubble after going to see her destroyed home March 16, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi province, Japan.
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![A general night view taken with a longer exposure, shows destroyed houses and debris in the tsunami-damaged city of Rikuzentakata, in Iwate prefecture on March 22, 2011. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images/Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)]( "A general night view taken with a longer exposure, shows destroyed houses and debris in the tsunami-damaged city of Rikuzentakata, in Iwate prefecture on March 22, 2011. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images/Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)")
A general night view taken with a longer exposure, shows destroyed houses and debris in the tsunami-damaged city of Rikuzentakata, in Iwate prefecture on March 22, 2011.
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![Policemen carry the bodies of victims retrieved from the debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, March 16, 2011. (Adrees Latif/REUTERS/Adrees Latif/REUTERS)]( "Policemen carry the bodies of victims retrieved from the debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, March 16, 2011. (Adrees Latif/REUTERS/Adrees Latif/REUTERS)")
Policemen carry the bodies of victims retrieved from the debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, March 16, 2011.
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![A man walks with his dog at a destroyed residential area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, March 22, 2011, nearly two weeks after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. (Issei Kato/REUTERS/Issei Kato/REUTERS)]( "A man walks with his dog at a destroyed residential area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, March 22, 2011, nearly two weeks after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. (Issei Kato/REUTERS/Issei Kato/REUTERS)")
A man walks with his dog at a destroyed residential area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, March 22, 2011, nearly two weeks after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.
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![A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan March 13, 2011, following a massive earthquake and tsunami. (Asahi Shimbun/REUTERS/Asahi Shimbun/REUTERS)]( "A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan March 13, 2011, following a massive earthquake and tsunami. (Asahi Shimbun/REUTERS/Asahi Shimbun/REUTERS)")
A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan March 13, 2011, following a massive earthquake and tsunami.
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![A ship washed away by a tsunami sits amid debris in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake hit its eastern coast March 13, 2011. (Itsuo Inouye/AP/Itsuo Inouye/AP)]( "A ship washed away by a tsunami sits amid debris in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake hit its eastern coast March 13, 2011. (Itsuo Inouye/AP/Itsuo Inouye/AP)")
A ship washed away by a tsunami sits amid debris in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake hit its eastern coast March 13, 2011.
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![Residents take an out door bath amongst tsunami devastation in Kesennuma city, Miyagi prefecture on April 14, 2011. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images/Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)]( "Residents take an out door bath amongst tsunami devastation in Kesennuma city, Miyagi prefecture on April 14, 2011. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images/Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)")
Residents take an out door bath amongst tsunami devastation in Kesennuma city, Miyagi prefecture on April 14, 2011.
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![A woman wrapped up in a blanket stands in the middle of rubble, looking at the city submerged under water in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture (state),March 13, 2011, two days after the catastrophic earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the northeastern Japan. (Tadashi Okubo/AP/Tadashi Okubo/AP)]( "A woman wrapped up in a blanket stands in the middle of rubble, looking at the city submerged under water in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture (state),March 13, 2011, two days after the catastrophic earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the northeastern Japan. (Tadashi Okubo/AP/Tadashi Okubo/AP)")
A woman wrapped up in a blanket stands in the middle of rubble, looking at the city submerged under water in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture (state),March 13, 2011, two days after the catastrophic earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the northeastern Japan.
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![A boat sits atop a building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami which devastated a vast area of northeastern Pacific coast of Japan, March 22, 2011. (Hiroto Nomoto/AP/Hiroto Nomoto/AP)]( "A boat sits atop a building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami which devastated a vast area of northeastern Pacific coast of Japan, March 22, 2011. (Hiroto Nomoto/AP/Hiroto Nomoto/AP)")
A boat sits atop a building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami which devastated a vast area of northeastern Pacific coast of Japan, March 22, 2011.
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![Houses are inundated by seawater following an earthquake and tsunami in Natori March 11, 2011. (KYODO/REUTERS/KYODO/REUTERS)]( "Houses are inundated by seawater following an earthquake and tsunami in Natori March 11, 2011. (KYODO/REUTERS/KYODO/REUTERS)")
Houses are inundated by seawater following an earthquake and tsunami in Natori March 11, 2011.
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![A tsunami floods over the breakwater protecting the coastal city of Miyako at Heigawa estuary area after northeastern Japan was hit by a powerful earthquake March 11, 2011. (Mainichi Shimbun/AP/Mainichi Shimbun/AP)]( "A tsunami floods over the breakwater protecting the coastal city of Miyako at Heigawa estuary area after northeastern Japan was hit by a powerful earthquake March 11, 2011. (Mainichi Shimbun/AP/Mainichi Shimbun/AP)")
A tsunami floods over the breakwater protecting the coastal city of Miyako at Heigawa estuary area after northeastern Japan was hit by a powerful earthquake March 11, 2011.
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![A volunteer cleans family photos that were swept away by the March 11 tsunami, at a volunteer centre in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, April 12, 2011. (Toru Hanai /REUTERS/Toru Hanai /REUTERS)]( "A volunteer cleans family photos that were swept away by the March 11 tsunami, at a volunteer centre in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, April 12, 2011. (Toru Hanai /REUTERS/Toru Hanai /REUTERS)")
A volunteer cleans family photos that were swept away by the March 11 tsunami, at a volunteer centre in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, April 12, 2011.
(Toru Hanai /REUTERS/Toru Hanai /REUTERS)
