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Japan Earthquake: Six Months Later

By • Sep 13, 2011

On March 11, Japan was struck by a 8.9 earthquake on the Richter scale followed by an extraordinary destructive 30 foot tsunami wave that killed over 22,000 people.

The Atlantic posted a series of photos that depict the recovery efforts. Here is a series of before/after images.

More on the Atlantic.

©Reuters/Kyodo
©Reuters/Kyodo
©Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images
©Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images
©Reuters/Toru Hanai
©Reuters/Toru Hanai
©Reuters/Carlos Barria
©Reuters/Toru Hanai

 

©Reuters/Toru Hanai
©Reuters/Toru Hanai
©Reuters/Damir Sagolj/Kim Kyung-Hoon
©Reuters/Damir Sagolj/Kim Kyung-Hoon
©Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon
©Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon
©Reuters/Kyodo
©Reuters/Kyodo
©Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images
©Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images
©Reuters/Aly Song/Files/Kim Kyung-Hoon
©Reuters/Aly Song/Files/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Source: The Atlantic

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