Desperation, panic grip Japan after quake, nuclear emergency

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Survivors of Japan's worst recorded earthquake and a tsunami huddled in shelters and hoarded supplies Saturday as rescue workers searched the rubble of a coastline choked by cars, boats and leveled homes.

Aerial footage showed buildings and trains strewn like children's toys after a deluge of seawater swept into fields around the city of Sendai, about 130 km (80 miles) from the epicenter of the earthquake and among the worst-hit areas.

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