Move the slidebar back and forth across the images.

The third one down, Sendai, shows the course of a river has changed.

According to a CNN story, the axis of the Earth changed ~10 cm from the
effects of this earthquake, and parts of Japan moved 2.4 m based on GPS
readings. Here is another estimate that it was 25 cm:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1365821/The-day-earth-really-did-How-Japanese-earthquake-tilted-worlds-axis-25cm.html

That's gotta confuse the whole standard of the GPS system to some extent.

- Jed

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