Obviously the tremendously powerful earthquake and surreal tsunami is dominating this morning's conversation - always puts things in perspective. This appears to be the 5th most powerful earthquake since 1900 - but closest to a large city.
1. 1960 -- 9.5 -- Chile
2. 1964 -- 9.2 -- Prince William Sound, Alaska
3. 2004 -- 9.1 -- Sumatra
4. 1952 -- 9.0 -- Kamchatka, Russia
5. 2011 -- 8.9 -- Friday in Japan
6. 2010 -- 8.8 -- Offshore Maule, Chile
Obviously when a tsunami is involved the video is nearly unbelievable - almost out of a movie. NYTimes blog has a series of videos from various locales in Japan here.
