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In [video footage](https://youtu.be/eeLlySDmjuw?t=2m40s) of the tsunami in
March, 2011, someone said while watching the beginning of the destruction of a
harbor:

> 終わりだ。何も。

Is he thinking

> 終わりだ。何も _残らない_ 。

So the correct translation is:

> This is the end of everything here. Nothing will remain.

To inject explicit "future tense", could I say something like this:

> 終わりだ。何も残らなさそうだ。

But that "future tense" Japanese sounds stilted and weird even in writing?
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Words implied after saying "終わりだ。何も。" in footage of the Mar. 2011 tsunami?
> 終わりだ。何も。

Your guess may be right, but mine is different:

> 終わりだ。 _何もかも_ 。

However, I think your translation is still correct.

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> 終わりだ。何も残らなさそうだ。

This future tense sounds natural and has no problem both in speaking and in
writing.

But it might not match that situation. The speaker should not be in such a
mental condition that he can make a guess about future.
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Yes the guy is actually saying 「終わりだ、なにも」, which is almost ungrammatical.
Perhaps he was too exited to say the sentence until the end. I guess the
person would have wanted to say 「終わりだ、何もかも」, which is the same as 「何もかも終わりだ」
("Everything is over/finished"). We don't have to think of the verb 残らない here.

In addition, 何も残らなそうだ (="It seems that ...") is too long and a person in a
situation like this would not say something like that.
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