Spotted over at Not a Sheep‘s place, ABC News Australia has some amazing before and after photographs showing just how devastating the Tsunami damage around Japan’s Northern coast actually is.

The link to ABC News above has several images – hover your mouse above each image to move the divider left and right to view the before and after images at each location.

News images of piles of destroyed houses and cars are one thing but when you see whole towns erased from the map you begin to appreciate just how much damage has been caused – the two images below are from the ABC News website :