To call it the biggest story in the world doesn’t capture the magnitude. At the moment, it’s really the only story in the world. But even so, it’s confounding to write about. No words are adequate to convey the scale of the forces at work; the obvious points, that the entire country would look like Hiroshima right now if not for Japanese engineering and preparedness.
This image provided by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center shows a ‘tsunami forecast model’ created by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii predicting the wave height of the tsunami generated by the Japan earthquake. The Hawaii’s islands are located at the edge of the yellow pattern, but waves could be higher along the coastline when the tsunami arrives.[AP Photo/Nathan Becker - Pacific Tsunami Warning Center]
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