Take the world's most earthquake-prepared country, jolt it with one of the biggest quakes in history and add a devastating tsunami minutes later. In the classic battle of Man vs. Nature, Nature won again.
Hundreds if not thousands of people are dead in Japan. One of the world's most technologically advanced and earthquake-prone nations is paralyzed by a 8.9-magnitude "megathrust." It was the fifth-strongest quake in the world since 1900 and the most powerful on record ever to hit Japan, but not the deadliest.
And it could have been worse.
Image: Debris of damaged houses and others float in the waters off Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture (State) on March 12, 2011, one day after a giant quake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast.
Text & Images: AP
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