Watching this video makes the reality of what happened even more terrifying:
Here’s another video, of the Japanese town Onagawa after the Tsunami.
I was just looking at the town in Google Earth, or at least the town before the Tsunami. It looks like a beautiful little fishing village. The sort of place you would like to take a vacation in; half on the water, half in the mountains. Here’s a photo of the town then:
Now, it’s all gone.
The top video is terrifying. It just keeps coming. Nothing I saw on TV news coverage came even close to really showing the extent of the tsunami.