As an elderly veteran of three wars who is a little hard of hearing we understand why Bob Johnson assumed it was an earthquake to blame for pictures falling off the tables in his house. It was only when someone came to check on the man that Johnson realized one of his neighbors had actually driven a car into his house.

These images, snapped inside the exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant nine months after the earthquake, are as close as we're likely to get to the end of the world. At least until December next year. Destroyed vehicles litter the landscape, proving obstacles for the few remaining holdouts and…

Today's 5.9 magnitude earthquake was felt throughout the Mid-Atlantic, but its epicenter—a small town in Virginia—took the brunt of its wrath. What if it had started in NYC instead? We may find out sooner than you think.

So, I just experienced my first earthquake. According to maps I'm like 50 miles away from the epicenter. As a Texan, I had no concept of how to react to this. I desperately grasped for a firearm so I could shoot at the earthquake and then, finding none, fled into the streets. Not my proudest moment.

Yes, that was an earthquake you just felt here in New York and Washington, DC. We're told it was a 6.0 earthquake located with an epicenter around Richmond, VA. Could it have been brought to you by the new earth-shattering 2012 Toyota Camry? Probably not.

Among those trapped by Japan's tsunami were 48 elementary-school students on board a marine research vessel off Japan's northeast coast. The boat survived the quake safely, but lost its navigation equipment, and the children have to be rescued by helicopter.

We've heard from Toyota, regarding its company-wide emergency task force set up to deal with the earthquake. No injuries reported so far, but some employees have been evacuated.

Honda released this statement earlier today, confirming one fatality and thirty people injured among the company's employees in Japan.

At the port of Kesennuma in northern Japan, cars and other debris were swept away by ferocious, 20+ foot tsunami tidal waves. Hundreds have been killed. Police say 200 to 300 bodies were found in coastal Sendai. (Photo: AP)

Here's video from the BBC showing — at about 30 seconds in — the moment the devastating 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan early this morning.