Yesterday, we called out coverage of the quake from the Boston Globe's Big Picture photo blog. A commenter pointed us to another excellent photo resource, The Atlantic's In Focus picture page. Check that out, too.

Speaking of imagery, a Saturday offering from Google and satellite/aerial photo service GeoEye showcases the remarkable—no: really incredible—capacity current technology gives us to see the world from new physical and temporal perspectives. The company's got together to produce before and after views of coastal areas swept by Friday's killer waves. The New York Times has the best iteration of the show: Satellite Photos—Japan Before and After Tsunami.

And finally, here's a video we can't embed (it's a Quicktime movie) that conveys a very immediate idea of how quickly the water arrived in coastal towns and how quickly it erased communities from the landscape. The location is the town of Kesennuma, in Miyagi Prefecture, a town of 75,000. The Daily Yomiuri quotes a resident as saying of the aftermath, "This is a hellish sight I can hardly believe."

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