Japan recovers

Remember how whole districts were smashed to flinders, and those flinders just covered the ground?   As the Big Picture shows, the Japanese have piled up or even removed much of the junk.

Here's a place where they have done a particularly good job, showing before and after:

Rebecca Solnit's wise words, again

Panic, looting and other myths

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From the Big Picture photo collection.

It was a big quake

Concepcion, Chile, from The Big Picture. Click to see a larger image.