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Disaster in Japan
The No.3 nuclear reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant burned after a blast in this satelite image taken Monday. The Fukushima nuclear complex, 150 miles north of Tokyo, has seen explosions at two of the reactors on Saturday (reactor No. 1) and Monday (No. 3). Reactors No. 1 to No. 4 can be seen from the bottom to top.

A man comforted a woman as she cried in front of her damaged home in the town of Watari in Miyagi prefecture.

A father tried to flee for safety with his four-month-old daughter Monday as a tsunami warning sounded. The girl was rescued and reunited with her father after being spotted in the rubble of Ishinomaki by a rescue worker Monday.

This serial view shows cars burnt out by fires triggered by tsunami lined up near Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture Monday

A man filled containers with gasoline at a gas station near Utsunomiya, Japan, Monday.

Officers looked at a Japanese Air Force plane that was swept by the tsunami into a building at Matsushima base in Higashimatsushima, Iwate Prefecture, in northern Japan.

A tsunami survivor sat down in the rubble in Yamadamachi Monday.

Rescue worker looked for survivors in Natori next to bodies covered in plastic.

Vessels floated on oil-coated water in Fudai, Iwate, Monday.

An emergency worker threw disinfectant powder in Miyako.

Rescue workers looked for missing people in Natori.

Rescue workers looked at a mannequin as they searched for victims in Rikuzentakata, nortern Japan.

A car sat atop of another in area affected by the tsunami in Miyako.

A resident searched for her belongings in the ruins in Ofunato, Iwate, northern Japan.

Destroyed buildings in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Monday. The local government said the town office of Otsuchi was swept away by the raging sea.

A survivor pushed his bicycle through remains of the devastated town of Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture, Monday.

A destroyed landscape in Yamada village, Iwate prefecture, Monday

At the makeshift facility in Nihonmatsu to screen, clean and isolate people with high radiation levels, a protective plastic screen divided a girl from her dog, Monday.

A Soma city woman called out the names of family members.

An explosion Monday sent up smoke from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power complex, already hit by a blast Saturday.

A man who was evacuated from the vicinity of Fukushima’s nuclear power plants was screened for radiation levels at makeshifts facility in Nihonmatsu, northern Japan, Monday.

Emiko Ohta, 52, couldn’t bear to look at the debris that was her home in Kuji, Iwate prefecture, Monday.

A family climbed over debris while evacuating from Minamisanriku town Monday.

Rescue workers looked for the missing amid mud and debris in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Monday.

A boat came to rest atop a building amid a sea of debris in Otsuchi town.

An emergency worker walked among the debris in Kuji Monday.

A photo hung from the remains of a house in the seaside town of Toyoma.

Rescue workers searched through rubble in front of a Shinto shrine in Otsuchi.

Homes were reduced to wrecks and rubble in the seaside town of Yotsukura.

