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Earthquake Hits Northern Japan

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• June 14: A large part of a bridge is shown after collapsing in a powerful earthquake in Ichinoseki, northern Japan. The magnitude 7.2 temblor ripped across the mountains and rice fields of northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least six people as it sheared off hillsides, jolted buildings and shook nuclear power plants.
• June 14: A large part of a bridge is shown after collapsing in a powerful earthquake in Ichinoseki, northern Japan. AP/Kyodo News
• June 14: A large part of a bridge is shown after collapsing in a powerful earthquake in Ichinoseki, northern Japan.
• June 14: A forest road is shown after being heavily damaged by a powerful earthquake in Kurihara, northern Japan.
• June 14: Tombstones are seen strewn in Ichinoseki after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake ripped across the mountains and rice fields of northern Japan.
• June 14: Rescuers conduct a search for missing people at a collapsed hot spa building in Kurihara, northern Japan.
• June 14: Rescuers conduct a search for missing people at a collapsed hot spa building in Kurihara, northern Japan.
• June 14: A television cameraman films an earthquake-damaged road in Kurihara, northern Japan.
• June 14: Japanese soldiers encounter damage from a small landslide caused by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake while heading back from Komanoyu hot springs in Kurihara, northern Japan.
• June 14: A cameraman accompanies soldiers as they cross a small landslide caused by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake while heading back from Komanoyu hot springs in Kurihara, northern Japan.
• June 14: A television cameraman films an earthquake-damaged road in Kurihara, northern Japan.
• June 14: Traces of landslides are seen after a powerful earthquake in Kurihara, northern Japan.
• June 14: A television reporter stands in front of a small landslide caused by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Kurihara, northern Japan.
• June 14: An earthquake-damaged road is seen in Kurihara, northern Japan.
• June 14: A rescue helicopter plucks a passenger from a bus, blue bottom, that was hit by a landslide while moving along a forest road in Oshu, northern Japan.
• June 14: A rescue helicopter plucks a passenger from a bus, blue bottom, that was hit by a landslide while moving along a forest road in Oshu, northern Japan.
• June 14: A rescued passenger is carried to an ambulance after being rescued from a bus that was hit by a landslide while moving along a forest road in Oshu, northern Japan.
• June 14: A rescuer escorts a boy from a helicopter that rescued villagers isolated by a powerful earthquake in Kurihara, northern Japan.
• June 14: Rescue personnel escort children who were brought to a safer place by helicopter in Ichinoseki, northern Japan.
• June 14: An elderly woman is helped by a rescuer as she's brought to a local school to take refuge following a powerful earthquake in Ichinoseki in northern Japan.
• June 14: Quake victims have rice balls distributed at an evacuation center at Ichinoseki in northern Japan.
• June 14: Quake victims have rice balls distributed at an evacuation center at Ichinoseki, northern Japan.
• June 14: A rescuer holds a child who was brought to a safer place by helicopter at Ichinoseki in northern Japan.