What Would Your World Look Like?

However I digress.

The couple I was visiting with didn’t have any problem with the idea of preparing. They just didn’t know where to begin. At the time of my visit the Japanese earthquake had struck just one week earlier. Televisions everywhere were flooded with terrifying images, the vast majority of which were of the tsunami which struck so quickly after the initial quake, no one could process what they were seeing.

Though there was footage of the initial shaking, most of that came from Tokyo which was over 200 miles from the epicenter. While I could see that the shaking in Tokyo was bad, it must have been nowhere close to what they must have experienced at the epicenter. In the end this earthquake was finally judged to be a magnitude of 9.

The timing of this disaster made my job a lot easier. When I asked the couple to try to imagine what their world would look like after a really large quake, I could tell by the look on their faces that their imaginations didn’t have to stretch far.

So now my dearest readers I pose the question to you: if an earthquake much larger than anything you have ever experienced were to hit, what would your world look like?