MAJOR EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN! MAGNATUDE 9.1 QUAKE THE BIGGEST IN JAPANESE HISTORY! JAPAN DECLARES A NUCLEAR EMERGENCY AS TWO NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ARE OVERHEATING, OVER 20 MAJOR AFTERSHOCKS ABOVE MAG 6.0

Allahpundit of HotAir.com gives a sense of the carnage that has gripped the entire country.

To call it the biggest story in the world doesn’t capture the magnitude. At the moment, it’s really the only story in the world. But even so, it’s confounding to write about. No words are adequate to convey the scale of the forces at work; the obvious points, that the entire country would look like Hiroshima right now if not for Japanese engineering and preparedness, are too obvious to repeat; and there’s no obvious political angle to blather on about...

 This is a disaster of biblical proportions and its still not over...

Hundreds of bodies found... Thousands Missing, Feared Dead... Dam breaks, washes away homes... Agency: N American plate snapped upward... HUGE WHIRLPOOL CREATED... Thousands roam Tokyo streets... Cruise ship, entire train missing... Japan Rushes to Contain Damage...



There are over a  quarter of a million people  are in shelters, with thousands more trapped in buildings , two nuclear plants are in danger of a meltdown and there are powerful aftershocks still hitting the island, while the auto industry has been temporarily halted.

While the full extent of the disruption or damage the quake has caused the anime industry is unknown, Anime News Network has a list of those Anime/Manga/Game Industry Members checking in via the internet.