Being a geologist I am in near constant awe of geologic processes. I will never fail to watch really cool earth science, especially if it’s in the territory of “hard rock”, such as volcanoes and earthquakes.
Some nice people decided to make a video with all the volcanoes that erupted during 2011. This video concentrates around Japan.
What you see below is a rather boring data dump, but done in a way you can wrap your head around, should you so choose.
Each earthquake is accompanied with a slight “thump” relative to its size.
“What about the rest of the world?” you ask. Here’s the same technique, Earthquakes across the entire globe 2011 (YouTube)