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Vehicles washed away by the March 11 remain still stranded on gravestones in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Miho Takahashi) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
WHAS11.com
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 9:39 PM
Updated yesterday at 9:39 PM
RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (AP) -- People along Japan's tsunami-battered northeast coast and elsewhere across the country have observed a moment of silence to mark the exact time a massive earthquake struck the nation one year ago.
The magnitude-9.0 quake on March 11, 2011, triggered a terrifying tsunami that devastated the northeastern coast, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant.
At 2:46 p.m. Sunday in the coastal town of Rikuzentakata, a siren sounded and a Buddhist priest in a purple robe rang a huge bell at a damaged temple overlooking a barren area where houses once stood.
At the same time in Tokyo's National Theater, Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda stood in silence with hundreds of other people at a memorial service.
Source: http://www.whas11.com/news/Moment-of-silence-marks-1-year-since-Japan-quake-142271995.html
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