EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN

In my post reviewing the year 2010 I said that one of the themes was the recurrent power of Nature, which remains more than a match for humanity's ingenuity and technological progress.

This morning's earthquake and tsunami in Japan prove my point. The earthquake, measured at 8.9 on the Richter scale, is reckoned to be one of the five biggest ever recorded. And although loss of life - so far - appears to be modest, the tsunami rushing across the Pacific Ocean as I write may well change that.

It is a sobering event.

Walter Blotscher