“Keiichi Nakane, a local reporter, described it as “surreal… I felt I was watching a science-fiction movie.’ Yoshikatsu Hatakeyama, who watched the scene unfold, said that it was ‘like something from the Middle Ages.” Kesennuma, a town on Japan’s northeast coast, was first shaken by the 9.0 quake, then hit by the tsunami, then a third disaster: a fire kindled by the first two disasters, which caused large tuna fishing ships in the harbor to collide into one another and catch fire, only to then be carried by waves in into neighborhoods which then burnt to the ground when the tsunami receded. (Australian, via @silberman)