Holy Moly.
Note: This and all other posts on the Sendai earthquake and tsunami (including numerous videos) can be found here.
Correction: As the commenter below notes, this picture is from the 1995 Kobe earthquake, not today’s quake.
This one is particularly scary:
The apartment buildings behind it seem intact. Maybe the tsunami surge tossed a ship into the highway.
(Hat tip: Instapundit.)
About Lawrence Person
Lawrence Person is a science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He also edits the Hugo-nominated SF critical magazine Nova Express, and runs the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. His non-fiction has appeared in National Review, Reason, Whole Earth Review, The Freeman, The World & I, Science Fiction Eye, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Slashdot.org. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis. He also makes a mean batch of salsa.
This is a picture of the Japanese Earth quake in 1995 in Kobe. Notice the cars on the right side of the road. They are not wet.