Powerful quake, tsunami kills thousands in Japan.The magnitude-8.9 offshore quake struck at 2:46 p.m. local time(11/03/2011) and was the biggest to hit Japan since record-keeping began in the late 1800s. It ranked as the fifth-largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and was nearly 8,000 times stronger than one that devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, last month.
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