A week after a 9.0
earthquake and resulting tsunami leveled large swaths of northeastern
Japan, effects of the disaster are still rippling across the country and
the world. Misery of the victims continues unabated, as shelter, food,
water, and fuel have become dear. A nuclear facility crisis has both
troops and workers scrambling to keep the situation from getting worse,
while foreign governments are urging their citizens to evacuate. -- Lane Turner (25 photos total)

Momoko
Onodera prays at an evacuation center as she talks about her husband
who died in the tsunami on March 18 in Kesennuma, Japan. A potential
humanitarian crisis looms as nearly half a million people who have been
displaced by the disaster continue to suffer a shortage of food and fuel
as freezing weather conditions set in. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)


2
An
elderly woman and a relative are reunited at a center for displaced
persons in the devastated town of Otsuchi, Iwate prefecture on March 18
one week after a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit the
northestern coast of Japan's main island of Honshu. (Nicholas
Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) #


3
A
two-month old baby evacuated along with his parents from the town of
Okuma, Fubata district in Fukushima prefecture where the TEPCO Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant, is given a bath by a volunteer, Junko
Sakamoto in Koriyama city in Fukushima prefecture on March 18. (Go
Takayama/AFP/Getty Images) #


4
Victims
from an evacuation center relax as they take their first bath since an
earthquake and a tsunami hit the area in Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture
on March 18. The bath house was reopened, offering free baths to
people. (Reuters/Kyodo) #


5
A
man looks for a relative at a community center used as a shelter in the
tsunami-damaged town of Otsuchi on March 18. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty
Images) #


6
A man checks lists of evacuees at an evacuation center in Rikuzentakata March 18. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) #


7
Evacuees
eat instant noodles for lunch at a shelter in Rikuzentakata in Iwate
prefecture on March 18. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images) #


8
Evacuees
rest in a shelter, 60 km from the nuclear power plant in Fukushima
prefecture, in Koriyama on March 18. (Ken Shimizu/AFP/Getty Images) #


9
A
man takes a look at pages from his own family photo album that he
discovered in the wreckage a week after the disasters hit Rikuzentakata
in Iwate prefecture on March 18. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images) #


10
A man collects water from a canal in the tsunami-devastated town of Otsuchi on March 18. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) #


11
People
queue to buy gasoline at a destroyed village in Ofunato, Iwate
Prefecture March 18. The shutdown of a fifth of Japan's nuclear power
capacity and nearly a third of its refining capacity following last
week's killer quake and tsunami has resulted in a fuel shortage in the
country. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters) #


12
Japan
Defense Forces officers and survivors roll drums of heating oil in
Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture, March 18. (Reuters/Kyodo) #


13
Aiko Musashi carries personal belongings from her destroyed home on March 18 in Kesennuma. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) #


14
People cook outside their home in the tsunami-damaged town of Otsuchi on March 18. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) #


15
A woman walks across a bridge in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on March 18. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images) #


16
A survivor walks through debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture March 18. (Aly Song/Reuters) #


17
Dozens
of coffins are pictured on the floor of a hall in the town of Rifu in
Miyagi prefecture on March 18. The official number of dead and missing
after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan's
northeast coast a week ago has topped 16,600, with 6,405 confirmed dead.
(JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images) #


18
Radiation
scanning crews check each other's levels as they change their work
shift at a screening center in Koriyama in Fukushima prefecture, 60 km
west of TEPCO's striken Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, on March 18.
(Go Takayama/AFP/Getty Images) #


19
Officials
scan people for radiation, 60 km west of the nuclear power plant in
Fukushima prefecture, in Koriyama on March 18. (Ken Shimizu/AFP/Getty
Images) #


20
A rescue worker walks through rubble in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on March 18. (Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images) #


21
A rescue worker searches through debris in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on March 18. (Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images) #


22
An
airline staff member attempts to calm people rushing to buy flight
tickets at a ticket counter in Narita International Airport on March 18
in Narita. (Koki Nagahama/Getty Images) #


23
Lights
are turned off during rolling blackouts in Misato City, Saitama
Prefecture on March 18. Tokyo Electric Power Co has announced rolling
blackouts after its power generation was cut due to damage to its
Fukushima Daiichi power plant, where it is struggling to prevent reactor
meltdowns. (Reuters/Kyodo) #


24
A
satellite image shows damage to the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi
nuclear power plant at the town of Okuma in Futaba district in
Fukushima. Teams of Japanese workers and troops on March 18 battled to
prevent meltdown at the quake-hit nuclear plant as alarm over the
disaster grew with more foreign governments advising their citizens to
flee. (DigitalGlobe/AFP/Getty Images) #


25
Residents walk on a road past debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, March 18. (Aly Song/Reuters) #

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