The Fifth anniversary of the March 11th Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

People release ballon doves with messages to victims of the 2011 Tsunami in Hiyoriyama Park in Natori, near Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Friday March 11th 2016. 2016 marks the fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan earthquake. This magnitude 9 quake caused a tsunami that flattened large parts of the Tohoku coast killing around 18,000 people and caused a nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daichi Power Station.

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