The last picture with the crow flying across the street seem almost surreal to me, it's just so haunting
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And how the fuck did that car got on top of a 3-stories building? Wasn't the tsunami "only" 10 meters tall as its peak or something? As it went inland, it shouldn't have reached so high.
And I didn't know that they put the deceased cremated bones in to the urn with chopsticks.
A pretty useful overview map of the earthquake/tsunami with casualties
edited 26th Mar '11 1:13:09 PM by Musicalcroc
Wikipedia on cremation at Japanese funerals
. They indeed use chopsticks to pick up the remains. Apparently they need to put the parts in specific order.
edited 26th Mar '11 3:33:05 PM by Musicalcroc
Ah, for some reason, American news has been focused on this again! Good. Good. ... don't know why they took a break from this to cover the events in Libya, but it's good to see Americans concerned about this ONE SINGLE earthquake, and CLEARLY not a second earthquake and not anything else at all ever ever.
... yeah...
... um...
... Wait.
No.
....... NO.
...WHY ARE YOU GUYS NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS?!?!?!
edited 27th Mar '11 7:22:09 PM by Shota
Well, it wasn't the first aftershock they had. I don't know what the US news are saying, but over here they are making look it wasn't big deal (that have been, apparently, hundreds of aftershock quakes and quite a few of magnitude 6). Apparently there were a tsunami alarm, but it was canceled already.
Maybe it was the tsunami alert? This seemed the only reason it was covered in the news site I read.
In the Google News
the coverage was small as well. Focusing in the tsunami alert and in how there was no damage.
edited 27th Mar '11 9:45:24 PM by Heatth

That picture of the car lying among the grave stones hit particularly hard for some reason.
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