The power of Mother Nature is awesome, in this case also very destructive. Some of the videos of the aftermath coming out in the press show damage that defies logic, entire buildings striped from their foundations and scattered tens if not hundreds of yards away. It's a shame that people were killed and injured but from looking at the damage it's amazing to me that the toll hasn't been any worse than it is.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus