Capturing the feeling of an earthquake is difficult with a video camera. Mostly it can be described as shaky chaos, without anything to really gauge how much the earth actually shook. With this video of the earthquake’s effect on a swimming pool, we can better grasp the magnitude of force behind this disaster.

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