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Five years ago on this March 11th, Japan was hit by a tragic trifecta: an earthquake, tsunami...
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and then a nuclear meltdown.
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Bells rang all across Japan... at 2:46 p.m. local time, the exact moment the 9-point-oh
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quake was detected. People across the country took a moment of
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silence... bowed their heads as a mark of respect for the nearly 20-thousand people
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who died that day. The Japanese government also marked the fifth
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anniversary in a national ceremony along with residents from the affected regions.
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On March 11th, 2011 the powerful offshore earthquake spawned a monster tsunami... along
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the country's northeastern coast and sparked the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl
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in 1986.
