Timelapse of earthquake data

Jeffrey Friedl, well known for his work on Lightroom plugins and who lives in Japan, created a quite revealing timelapse animation of data from accelerometers present everywhere in Japan of a whole week of data of the big quake and many aftershocks. Aftershocks is a bad word for this as many were quite large in their own right. Check it out on his blog.

Devastating

My heart goes out to the people in Japan. The devastation caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami is just terrible.
The big picture
The frame
Denver Post

Update: This interactive before/after satellite photo comparison on the New York Times' website is gut wrenching. Reminiscent of similar images from Indonesia when a tsunami struck there.