Earthquake and tsunami photos mirror the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hiroshima: A fire engine in ruins symbolises the sheer inadequacy of the resources that the Japanese people had for quenching the atomic rage of fire.

Minamisoma: The wreckage of a fire engine that attempted to fight gas fires.

While the enormity of the quake and the land it affected are far greater, footage of the disasters from recent weeks is terrifyingly comparable to those of 65 years ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Photos obtained at this link from The Daily Mail