Tsunami
The Post's Michael Dobbs describes his morning swim; the BBC's Roland Burek says he never felt the earthquake.
Today's post was going to be about Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev (and, in particular, their pairing in Romeo and Juliet in the early 1960s). And I thought a little Renee Fleming moment would be worth writing about, and I was going to link to a Handel-Halvorsen duo for violin and viola that seemed important earlier today. These are all beautiful and highly-structured things.
But there is nothing quite as awesome as a magnitude 8.9 earthquake. Indian authorities didn't even consider that tsunamis might follow — nothing like this had ever happened there before. There is beauty, and then there is terrible beauty.