Sendai Japan Quake ~ Images & Visualizations...

Ongoing post about Sendai quake, Japan, and aftermath. Here's how quake was covered in realtime on TV and the alarms were spread... Brent Kooi captured realtime ground cracking dynamics (!) Tokyo skyscrapers swaying (but not breaking, thankfully)... The tsunami warnings and practiced-population did work... But tsunami's are unstoppable... Here's NOAA tsunami simulation... Tsunami intensity forecast... Aftermath on The Big Picture... WSJ's survey of coastal damages... Google serves Post-earthquake imagery of Japan... And this ABC Before & After visualizer is especially good. Here's NASA Terra satellite's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image of pre- and post-view of northeastern Japan shows massive flooding along the coast centered on Sendai city...