It was fifty-six days from the moment the earth sent its first warning of the catastrophe to come until the day it took a brief pause for breath. Fifty-six days that saw one of history's most violent earthquakes followed by a tsunami towering over an entire coastline and finally a nuclear disaster that threatened the forced evacuation of Tokyo. Fifty-six days of the world's first digital mega-disaster when Japan would shift closer to continental America sending shockwaves that would be heard in space and ultimately moving the earth on its axis. This is the story of how it unfurled around me. Fifty-six days.