so, as you can see, we've got to go. between such alarms, they wander back during the day. some, bewildered, others, phlegmatic. but all, simply dwarfed by this. the empires of men upturned in moments. tell me, how many people have been killed in this town? >> unsure, but according to the news, 10,000 people died out of 17,000 people in town. >> reporter: 10,000 out of 17,000? >> yeah, yeah. it's hard. >> reporter: killed in this awful collision between the incomprehensibly vast with the pathetically intimate. the sheer force and scale of it's hard to take in.