ground splitting during Japan quake

seen from above: the awesome scale of Japan's destruction (photos)

"Monarch of Violence, rolling on clouds,
I toss wide waters, and I fell huge trees …
Possessed of daemon-rage, I penetrate,
Sheer to the utmost caverns of old Earth;
And straining, up from those unfathomed deeps,
Scatter the terror-stricken shades of Hell;
And hurl death-dealing earthquakes throughout the world!"
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 6