A quake-tsunami disaster that is feared to have killed more than 10,000 people.

A woman wrapped in a blanket stares shell-shocked at the damagae in Ishimaki City



Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: A mighty wave of foaming black waterbursts through an embankment in Miyako, crushing cars parked in the street and obliterating everything in its path




Overturned: A motorcyclist passes by an overturned fishing boat in Hachinohe, Aomori, northern Japan



Precarious: Like a discarded toy tossed carelessly across a child's room, a ferry balances on the roof of a house in the village of Otsuchi



Lost: A woman searching for her missing husband looks under an overturned truck after an earthquake and tsunami struck Minami Sanriku



Broken home People walk through the debris of what was once a suburb of Minami Sanriku in Miyagi Prefecture which was hardest hit by Friday's earthquake and tsunami



Blown away: Local residents walk past debris, including an overturned fishing boat, in Minami Sanriku



There is nothing left: A woman surveys the ravaged town of Minami Sanriku



There is nothing left: A woman surveys the ravaged town of Minami Sanriku



People look at a devastated area of Minamisanriku, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast.



Tsunami evacuee is carried to hospital from an evacuation center in Minamisanriku, Miyagi, northern Japan Sunday, March 13, 2011 following Friday's massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami.



Residents who were ordered to evacuate from their homes, rest at a shelter in Ofunato, Iwate, northern Japan Monday, March 14, 2011 following Friday's massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami.




Residents fill up bottles of water from a public tap for home use in downtown Sendai city in Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011. A new explosion at a nuclear plant in nearby Fukushima prefecture hit punch-drunk Japan on March 14 as it raced to avert a reactor meltdown after a quake-tsunami disaster that is feared to have killed more than 10,000 people.




Local residents look at a tsumami-hit area covered with mud and debris in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 following the March 11 tsunami. A new explosion at a nuclear plant in nearby Fukushima prefecture hit punch-drunk Japan on March 14 as it raced to avert a reactor meltdown after a quake-tsunami disaster that is feared to have killed more than 10,000 people.



A market near a port is filled with debris in Fudai, Iwate, northern Japan Monday, March 14, 2011 following Friday's massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami.



A displaced house washed away by a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami gets stuck at a torii, a gate of a shrine in Noda village, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after the earthquake hit the country's east coast.



A man reacts while looking at a stock price board in Tokyo Monday, March 14, 2011 as the Tokyo stock market plunged on its first business day after an earthquake and tsunami of epic proportions laid waste to cities along Japan's northeast coast. Only stock prices of construction and housing business show upward trend in red digits.



CORRECTS SOURCE - In this photo taken Sunday, March 13, 2011, debris covers Otsuchicho town, northern Japan, two days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast.



People queue up to wait for buses to leave the city in downtown Sendai in Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011. A new explosion at a nuclear plant in nearby Fukushima prefecture hit punch-drunk Japan on March 14 as it raced to avert a reactor meltdown after a quake-tsunami disaster that is feared to have killed more than 10,000 people.



People queue up to buy food and daily necessities in downtown Sendai in Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011. A new explosion at a nuclear plant in nearby Fukushima prefecture hit punch-drunk Japan on March 14 as it raced to avert a reactor meltdown after a quake-tsunami disaster that is feared to have killed more than 10,000 people.


Tsunami Wave Breached Seawall in Japan Friday



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