See http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html for an interactive feature that shows just how devastating the damage from the earthquake and tsunami is . . . move the sliders on the images left and right to see the before and after perspectives from the satellite photos of the areas affected . . . now, as you see all those houses and buildings vanished, many without a trace, imagine the human beings who lived in them and just how tiny and insignificant they may have felt.

This is very very powerful.

– Brian