The rise in water is astonishing, especially if you note how the distant rocks seem to "shrink" in height as the water rises...some of the smaller ones disappear completely...looking at the rise of water against the biggest distant rock/sea mount and you could estimate that the water rose at least ten meters or 30 feet, maybe more...the collision of the outflow with the sea is astonishing in its violence...
Very sorry this happened to your region. Thank you for holding a wide and steady view (for the most part) throughout the video. It lets the viewer focus on something and follow it for a while.
Each wave in a tsunami event - and there are multiple waves in each one - can act differently. This video is very slow in the beginning, but to be able to watch all the different forms of turbulence, and the various currents that develop, is very instructive. At about 12:00, it starts to look like the water is rising so much that it might get up to the level at the bottom of the screen. Obviously the driver of the small black car is concerned too, and quickly drives away.
This video really shows the insidious creeping quality of big tsunami. People stand around and think it's not much as there is no actual big'wave' to see. The water just keeps coming though and is relentless. It's a massive amount of water, uplifted in one huge mass coming ashore. I find the quietness just after the drawback before the tsunamis turns, quite chilling.,
yeah, like the tsunami that hit Malaysia, there were people standing on the beach watching the water going out......what I've read that if you see the waves leave like that, you've got 10 minutes to get to higher ground before that incoming power reaches you. Tsumanis weren't a strange phenomena to the locals who stood there and didn't holler at those who never grew up with water currents and its power.
Yes it is the wave length that makes them so deadly. Most folks think of the height when it comes to assessing the dangers but even something like a 5 ft wave would devestate a coastal community. The wavelength can be so long that it just keeps coming in for like 30 mins straight.
Compared to the waves you usually see at the beaches, this is more like an overal raise of the water level for a few minutes/hours. Jumping from ~ 01:00 to 13:00 really gave me goosebumps. And then 17:30, the level is even lower than in the beginning but huge waves are immediately coming in ... That's incredible to see.
I feel verrrry small as I watch this, its truly overwhelming, beyond my ability to grasp the power of water being moved like this, flat out incomprehensible....
I agree, just the volume of water alone is incomprehensible and the speed of it, just unbelievable, almost every video is the same, people standing looking but before they realise it they are running to higher ground, must be a terrifying thing to witness
@@bandit911 😥 - so true. The absolute power of the ocean water is immense, and it just can't be stopped. The saddest thing is that I live in outback, dry, little water Aus...but I have known about signs of tsunamis for years. So many people - locals included, on so many videos of the awful 2004 Boxing Day tsunami ( at popular tourist spots) had no clue. "Oh look, the tide has gone out so fast & so low". Heartbreaking footage😰
It's amazing how gentle it looks at the beginning, then it gets a good flow and breaks a lot of things, but then, it recedes and people who don't understand think "whew, it's over" and then in comes the second crest. It's anything but gentle but nothing like such a wave is ever portrayed in the movies. It just flows up with an incredible inevitability, destroying almost everything. Like I've said before on other videos comments, I moved away from the ocean as soon as I could. I'm about 500 miles from the pacific coast where I used to live, Oxnard, CA and I worked at LAX which is just over the sand dunes from the Pacific. If there was ever a warning I was leaving. No standing around. Up near Camp Oaks, north of San Bernardino about 8,000 feet. My bike got 55 mpg at 70 mph and I had 5.8 gallons minus 1 from where I filled it each morning on my way to work. I wouldn't have much in the way of supplies but I'd be alive. Now I don't have to worry. If a Tsunami gets me here, there's going to be 50 to 70 million people dead along the California coast and inland across 3 mountain ranges and up at about 3200 feet. There's also very little seismic activity in the area as well. I did the best I could in picking a place to live and I have supplies and I keep my diesel pickup over half a tank at all times. That will get me a long ways away if I get any warning. If it knocks our our power (Hoover dam) It will idle generating 12 volts at up to 100 amps for a long time. Burns about 1/2 gallon an hour like that. I was only a boy scout for a little while but I took being prepared to heart. I'm also a Ham Radio operator and all my radios run on 12 VDC (the truck). Watching the people in some of these videos baffles me why they're just standing around, ESPECIALLY in Japan where this is not to rare and people should be educated about it.
awwwh, don't worry. There'll be some kind of mam-made or natural disaster that will get ya, no matter how careful or prepared you might be. We are our worst-case scenarios, and you can just as easily trip over your dog (or shoelace!) and land flat on your back, just out of reach of your Ham radio, water, etc. Good luck. My relatives lived through the San Francisco EQ in 1906; and I lived through the Loma Prieta EQ in 1989; and the Oakland-Berkeley Hills Fire in 1991; and more recently, the Santa Rosa fires in 2017... dang, not a year goes by now that I don't have to evacuate for some damned reason or another. Still, I will likely trip over my dog...and that'll be that. ;)
Stfu I'm from the central valley and a Tsunami would never reach that far inland. The Japan Tsunami was caused by a huge Earthquake and even that didn't cause it to go so far inland. California's central valley is filled with hills it would never reach( Inland)
This is the kind of video scientists will be studying for years. The longer videos where the separation & action of the tsunami waves is visible in the context of geological landscape, the camera is steady. I'vre seen a few such videos taken by steely-nerved amateurs (usually in a fairly safe location, but they had no way to be certain), running to 15 minutes or more, in which they were clearly trying to document a natural phenomena. The Japanese are a great people.
I find it very sad and strange the rude nasty comments on here. And the fact that people believe this is because of WWII or hunting whales. Is this really what people are becoming? If it happened to their country they wouldn't think or say these comments. Bless the people that lost their lives and the people left dealing with the loss of loved ones and the damage.
tspoon59 • In the last days, people will be lovers of themselves, shunning what is good. Their love will grow cold. We see a cross-section of this on social media, and the vile and viciousness will only increase as the last days play out. (The last days may last for years or today might be the very last day, but still they're the last days.)
This is a great video. So many didn’t capture the sea coming in AND going back out before second wave. Just think..as powerful as the second wave is...it’s pulled back out pretty fast.
This video truly captures the awesome and terrifying power of a tsunami. At first coming in like a fast moving tide which continues climbing higher in surges, until it tops the seawalls, and finally submerges everything in the harbor, it begins to drain back out to sea, at which point _things start to get really scary!_ At 25:00, it comes back with a vengeance, and everything gets submerged again ─ with even greater force!
This one: th-cam.com/video/fkmjXoILYto/w-d-xo.html and this one also: th-cam.com/video/CYVdYSCXG3Y/w-d-xo.html shows it and it looks way bigger than here.
It looks like in most videos if you get caught in the first wave you possibly have another chance at surviving if you quickly try to get to safety. The 2nd wave would be a miracle if you can survive. I'm scared of what would happen if we got one which is really possible next to Oregon, USA our subduction zone is late with the history of our tsunamis and we wouldn't have time possibly 15 minutes.
This one: th-cam.com/video/fkmjXoILYto/w-d-xo.html and this one also: th-cam.com/video/CYVdYSCXG3Y/w-d-xo.html shows it and it looks way bigger than here.
OMG. These tsunami videos are mesmerizing. The sea looks so benign and then, in the blink of an eye, it can obliterate everything. It starts out looking not too bad, then, wow, that escalated quickly, then OMG, RUN!!!! Unbelievable. My heart goes out to all affected, even 6 years later.
What seems to be the problem is, people are not understanding the danger, the warnings can clearly be heard, and enough time is given but, people look and think meh not too bad, then bang too late
A wise man said "never turn your back on the ocean." Having been caught in a riptide near Hanauma Bay, Oahu while skin diving and dragged out 1/2 mile to sea, I know exactly what he means.
@@indy_go_blue6048 Indy_go ..... at least you kept from panicking. I was with a girl on south Padre island, when I noticed this girl had her hands stretched towards shore. I moved towards her and boom, she immediately jumped up on top of me. Nothing I did helped her. She was out of her mind and beginning to drown me. So I went under the water and watched her begging me to come back.... anyway... I'm not going to go into how I saved her, only that it was a horrible experience. People, you must keep from panicking.
I call it Deadly Curiosity Factor. There's always somebody who is mesmerized by the tide receding. I've never seen the tide go out so far on any Tsunami YouTUbe. Saw a YT that showed huge waves coming in at an amazing speed,(looked like 50 mph) racing down the getty and slamming pell mell into the shore and over everything in its way. If you search around you might come across it. I don't know why so much shoreline throughout Japan lacks adequate concrete tsunami barriers. 20-30 feet walls will not stop it, the water just rises and rises until it breaches the wall top. Need at least 50 feet in my estimation.....................
@@nebraskatpp thats happened to me in Maui. A man yelling help coming towards me. I luckily told him to to onto his back and paddle to shore. We were both swimming against the tide towards shore.
Amazing video. Most video's about a tsunami show only water streaming in and focus on the damage it causes. This one shows what a tsunami really is: a series of giant waves.
actually no, most tsunamis are not giant waves how most people expect it to be like in the movies. its a miles - long plateau of water shoving itself onto the land, it temporarly raises the sea level. thats why they dont stop and water just keeps coming.. a tsunami doesnt get its power from its height. its a disrupted mass of water, down to the depths of the ocean. not like a usual big wave, which is just surface water moved by the wind. the waves you see in this video are max 2-3m. you see the water flowing in at the start? thats already the tsunami.
exactly, but the full amount comes in layers so to speak. There are some huge waves depending on where the break is, but its broken up and just rushes in by the time it gets to what there was of dry land.
I saw the tsunami come ashore in San Diego. It was just like this, except the waves were only a few inches high. All morning the tiny tsunami waves kept coming up the San Diego River channel, receding, then coming back. It was amazing. It was a warning too.
I so wish people would heed warnings like this...it doesn't only happen here, but all around the world when it happens, people seem to be so curious that they fail to see that it is time to go to higher ground...it's almost as if the siren and warning drew people to the water's edge to see what was happening, not thinking that they may lose their lives. Very sad to see so many people lost in Japan...my heart goes out to them all and to those that are still suffering the loss of so many of their family members.
A tsunami could hit Florida though actually. There have been large underwater landslides in the Gulf of Mexico which have inundated parts of the American Coast. It doesn't happen very often, but it is something the USGS is aware of and it is a known threat.
Also, when I lived in New Zealand, the residents there (especially the older ones) told me they had seen the same thing. (Note: It is the during the receding part when people get sucked far out to sea. It has happened many times in history).
I’m amazed of the water height difference. At 11:20 you can only see two distant islands, whereas at 17:20 (five minutes later), you can see the entire outline of the ocean floor...
Translation of announcement at beginning "get your ass to higher ground or kiss it goodbye! No One is going to fish you out of a tsunami! It's now or never!" Seriously though, this place should have had very few casualties. High ground is only seconds away from anywhere pictured in this video. A person could have out walked the tsunami here, unlike other locations that were filmed.
Most of the people killed in the Japanese Tsunami were the Elderly and then the very young. The fit younger adults could run and climb where they needed to, but most of the elderly could not as could walk at a shuffle at best, so many died in cars trying to escape or in their homes as they couldn't venture out and family wasnt around to help them as it was during work hours,
Rikunzkentakata was literally wiped from the face of the earth! It was one of the most obliterated coastal communities that day. The footage of it defies belief that something of such magnitude could occur.
In most other tsunamis, people moved their boats out to sea and rode out the tsunami at sea on their boats. It appears the worst thing you can do with your boat during a tsunami is have it docked or beached.
It depends of the force of the tsunami. There's footage of the 2004 boxing day in Thailand, where there was a boat being engulfed by waves in the distance out in the sea.
I believe the height of the levee (which is topped by the inital wave) is just under 10 meters, near 30 feet... so if that's accurate, the second wave was close to 40 feet. That second wave caught up to the first wave before the first wave could receed. This video is a very good record of this event.
Wow, all that sea water got held behind those levees after the retreat in a lot of places! Depends a lot on the direction & coast line. If one this size ever headed directly to the Bay Of Fundy, NE Canada, a natural funnel, it would possibly/probably reach 50 meters! Canary Islands land slide or an earthquake could do it.
The wave height at Rikuzentakata was far in excess of 13-meters. The town was effectively washed away. Over 1,000 people were killed, hundreds more missing.
The periodic rattling is all aftershocks... So, if the water lines are any judge, the normal sea level is about 2:45, so I'm thinking the video starts with it 4 or 5 feet down, at 12:10 it peaks at 25 or 30 feet up, then up to 17:30 and 25:00 it looks like it's dropped as much as 15 or 20 feet below even the start! Good heavens... And keep in mind that the large flat structure on the far left from about 18:30 onward is actually the town protective wall filled with water!
The Science behind a Tsunami is terrifying. The ocean recedes, then forces forward again at a greater volume & power, leaving devastation in it’s path! 😢
It's very sad indeed. My heart goes out to all the homeless and displaced sea life, ripped from the safety of their rocks and uprooted from the sea floor. How many baby clams, crabs, lobster, sea anemones, sea horses, octopi, and fish lost their lives in this disaster? It's a terrible tragedy :(
There needs to be a place for ugly troll people. They have to be judgmental and nay sayers because their life is so boring. There is NO country where all are bad or good, not even here in Good Ole America. There are thieves in every country. There are murders in all countries. And unfortunately there are ugly trolls EVERYWHERE. I personally report them to spam when they try to be ugly on my posts. Blessings and good thoughts to all that survived this tragedy. My heart goes out to you that lost loved ones.
It depends on a lot of things -- the stage of the tide, whether the trough or the wave arrives first, and especially the shape of the sea bed offshore.
Please stop politicizing these tragedies of nature. The wars ww1 & 2 were over a long time ago. Time heals wounds. I lived in Okinawa on the air base & they wanted us gone. But they were the nicest people. Stop using politics to make them feel bad. Move on.
It's amazing that within 6 minutes, the breakwaters are almost seen at the bottom to not being visible at all. And watching the rocks disappear. I wonder what those look like under normal conditions
I liked this example of the Japan Tsunami in 2001 because it shows the strangeness that occurs. The ocean level seamed to rise early on (the small islands) with the first wave. The later waves that did some of the horrific damage in other regions; the water can be seen to almost suck itself out of the bay and the overall water levels drop considerably before the final way. Just a very interesting naturalistic version of such a horrific event.
D Man1954 I know that it happened in March 2011. Why I said "2011" in my comment is because you have it listed in your caption as 2001. I wasn't giving you the NAME of the tsunami, I was giving you the CORRECT YEAR.
A meter is basically 39.36 inches. A yard is three feet, 36 inches. So a meter is basically 3 feet 3 and a half inches. I grew up with feet and inches but in science we use metric, so I am pretty fluent in the usage of both systems, though everything is based on SI units, so I prefer those if I can use them.
The same thing happened in Alaska several years ago. They had a 9.0 and tsunamis also that ran up the fijords and gained great heights. There weren't a lot of people however, like Japan. When my parents took me to Alaska, when I was very young, I still remember the dead pine trees from the salt water that was coming inland from the more extreme tides. I'm wondering if Japan will now also experience more extreme tides
one of the better vids because the fella was using a tripod properly, and wasn't trying to make viewers' motion sick by needlessly fussing with the zoom the entire time. sad event and impressive video.
Anyone know at this specific location how many waves came in and how long it took until the water came back to its normal level? It seems to me it took many, and a very long time.
A tsunami is a series of waves coming in and it goes out again like a series of waves, but the incoming waves are caused only by the underwater earthquake, whereas the outgoing waves are caused by water returning to the sea by gravity against the weaker last incoming waves. It starts when a vast area of sea bed rises suddenly lifting all the water above it. When that water comes down again, the first waves leave in all directions. However the pressure created beneath all that falling water causes another upward rising of water which drops again causing another outward going wave. This up and down movement takes a while to settle causing several waves to go out until all the energy of the rising seabed has been dissipated. The waves arrive on shore in diverse ways depending on the contours of the shoreline and the angle at which they strike land. When most of the waves' energy has been spent on land, the water starts to flow back to sea against weaker waves still coming in. This causes whirlpools and very choppy water as flow and counter flow struggle with each other. After a while, the direction of flow is more out than in, but there are still risings followed by ebbings until the sea settles down again.
Caulker ... man you better stick to caulking.......'cause you don't have a friggin' clue about the dynamics of water and/or tsunamis!! Your silly-ass comment makes NO sense man!!
They built their houses on the hills, above the reach of water, very smart decision. This is video with least amount of destruction, of all tsunami videos.
Very powerful video. I wish I spoke Japanese so I could understand what the people are saying to each other. However, there really are no words to describe the sheer power and terror nature can deliver.
On the way, I smile at the laughing voice of the local residents. Even though they are victims, they laugh like others. I do not know about the punishment
There was two separate quake epicenters cause 2 distinct tsunamis arriving differently at each port along the coast. Sometimes arriving together at the same time and sometimes as two separate large waves.
That is not my understanding of what occurred. Is there an article that this theory is based on? The tsunami produced several waves over a long period of time, which is what a tsunami usually does; I haven't read about two epicenters.
It almost feels wrong to thank you for sharing this. I know there must have been more casualties than this shoreline and the boats. Amazing how it just keeps coming. You can see and hear the power behind it. Scary!
I agree 100%. This video is the most comprehensive I've seen. The camers person must have used a tripod as the vid is very steady. I'm very sorry for everyone's loss here, I hope and pray things are getting back to normal. Signed, A friend from the U.S.A.
Some years ago, we had what was dubbed a 500 year flood. This makes that 500 year flood look like a puddle jumper! I cannot fathom living through this!
I know that this was two years ago but it’s crazy when you think about it they say that a fisherman out in the ocean won’t even know a tsunami went underneath them per se because it is like a peaceful little thing for lack of a better word than all the water gets sucked back out and it is just peaceful until it is not living in New York we are very blessed but I say all the time when the conversation comes up that weather is the most unbelievable ridiculous thing ever some of the natural disasters that happen in this world are almost something out of a sci-fi movie
Probably the first time in history that a disaster of this size would be captured by so many citizen journalists, And they have insured that future generations are warned at just how deadly a tsunami of this size can be
Wave after wave after wave... Just as it looks like the sea is receding, a huge wave comes in at 17:35 and the sea becomes a roiling white mass. Scary stuff, especially the huge spray at 18:00 that must have reached 100 feet.
With the number of tsunamis that hit Japan, this is probably just anther day in the lives of a fishing village. These people just pick up the pieces and rebuild.
Watching this clip it is quite terrifying to see the Sea water recede at 8:40 minutes and you can hear the birds screaming in the background in distress knowing something is about to happen!
Okay, smartypants: Prefecture comes from the latin title "praefectus" (governer). And praefectus itself is derived from "praeficere" - "to appoint to command".
Oh, thanks a lot "clancy688" for this very important information! ✌️ I imagine, in my language (I'm Italian), "prefecture" or "praeficere" is: "governatorato"! Best wishes
they all just underestimated this disaster. I think we all know now that there's a reason for that tsunami siren. I live in northern California on the coast. we have several areas and towns that would be gone after something like this. so so scary. Japan paid the price. hopefully everyone's learned by now for when it happens to YOU.
There was settling under many of these sea walls due to the quake. Some lost 10 feet of height so when the tsunami came, a 30 foot wall was, in reality a 20 foot wall.
Thanks for the upload of this frightening video. It is quite amazing to think something happening, what was it, 30 miles away, could have, firstly such an enormously drastic effect at the epicentre but still had more than enough power to do such damage to places with great sea defences, walls 7 and more metres high were breached. Do you know of any place nearer to the epicentre which has film of what happened, the rise of the sea must have happened almost instantaneously. Awesome! mrbluenun
The amazing thing about this whole event, is that even though the shake was one of the strongest offiiciGod bless you people of Japanally on record, I have seen little damage on the coastline and near interior buildings. All the damage has come from the water, with water unaffected buildings showing none, or little damage, It is so sad to see this video, but your nation has done so well to recover and advance forward.God bless you people of Japan and thank you for your kindness to me on my visits to your wonderful country. Arigatoo Gozaimashita. Aishimasu.
What seems to be the problem is, people are not understanding the danger, the warnings can clearly be heard, and enough time is given but, people look and think meh not too bad, then bang too late
Of all the Tsunami videos, this is one of the most interesting because it really shows in detail the repeated onslaught of the water.
The rise in water is astonishing, especially if you note how the distant rocks seem to "shrink" in height as the water rises...some of the smaller ones disappear completely...looking at the rise of water against the biggest distant rock/sea mount and you could estimate that the water rose at least ten meters or 30 feet, maybe more...the collision of the outflow with the sea is astonishing in its violence...
I think the general consensus with this area was that it received about a 13 to 16 meter wave give or take.
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Very sorry this happened to your region. Thank you for holding a wide and steady view (for the most part) throughout the video. It lets the viewer focus on something and follow it for a while.
Each wave in a tsunami event - and there are multiple waves in each one - can act differently. This video is very slow in the beginning, but to be able to watch all the different forms of turbulence, and the various currents that develop, is very instructive.
At about 12:00, it starts to look like the water is rising so much that it might get up to the level at the bottom of the screen. Obviously the driver of the small black car is concerned too, and quickly drives away.
This video really shows the insidious creeping quality of big tsunami. People stand around and think it's not much as there is no actual big'wave' to see. The water just keeps coming though and is relentless. It's a massive amount of water, uplifted in one huge mass coming ashore. I find the quietness just after the drawback before the tsunamis turns, quite chilling.,
yeah, like the tsunami that hit Malaysia, there were people standing on the beach watching the water going out......what I've read that if you see the waves leave like that, you've got 10 minutes to get to higher ground before that incoming power reaches you. Tsumanis weren't a strange phenomena to the locals who stood there and didn't holler at those who never grew up with water currents and its power.
It’s kinda like a big ocean bukkake.
Yes it is the wave length that makes them so deadly. Most folks think of the height when it comes to assessing the dangers but even something like a 5 ft wave would devestate a coastal community. The wavelength can be so long that it just keeps coming in for like 30 mins straight.
Compared to the waves you usually see at the beaches, this is more like an overal raise of the water level for a few minutes/hours.
Jumping from ~ 01:00 to 13:00 really gave me goosebumps. And then 17:30, the level is even lower than in the beginning but huge waves are immediately coming in ... That's incredible to see.
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I feel verrrry small as I watch this, its truly overwhelming, beyond my ability to grasp the power of water being moved like this, flat out incomprehensible....
And people are just tiny ants.
I agree, just the volume of water alone is incomprehensible and the speed of it, just unbelievable, almost every video is the same, people standing looking but before they realise it they are running to higher ground, must be a terrifying thing to witness
@@bandit911 😥 - so true. The absolute power of the ocean water is immense, and it just can't be stopped. The saddest thing is that I live in outback, dry, little water Aus...but I have known about signs of tsunamis for years. So many people - locals included, on so many videos of the awful 2004 Boxing Day tsunami ( at popular tourist spots) had no clue. "Oh look, the tide has gone out so fast & so low". Heartbreaking footage😰
It's a big bath tub.
In this video it feels weak, compared to something like this: th-cam.com/video/fkmjXoILYto/w-d-xo.html
It's amazing how gentle it looks at the beginning, then it gets a good flow and breaks a lot of things, but then, it recedes and people who don't understand think "whew, it's over" and then in comes the second crest. It's anything but gentle but nothing like such a wave is ever portrayed in the movies. It just flows up with an incredible inevitability, destroying almost everything. Like I've said before on other videos comments, I moved away from the ocean as soon as I could. I'm about 500 miles from the pacific coast where I used to live, Oxnard, CA and I worked at LAX which is just over the sand dunes from the Pacific. If there was ever a warning I was leaving. No standing around. Up near Camp Oaks, north of San Bernardino about 8,000 feet. My bike got 55 mpg at 70 mph and I had 5.8 gallons minus 1 from where I filled it each morning on my way to work. I wouldn't have much in the way of supplies but I'd be alive. Now I don't have to worry. If a Tsunami gets me here, there's going to be 50 to 70 million people dead along the California coast and inland across 3 mountain ranges and up at about 3200 feet. There's also very little seismic activity in the area as well. I did the best I could in picking a place to live and I have supplies and I keep my diesel pickup over half a tank at all times. That will get me a long ways away if I get any warning. If it knocks our our power (Hoover dam) It will idle generating 12 volts at up to 100 amps for a long time. Burns about 1/2 gallon an hour like that. I was only a boy scout for a little while but I took being prepared to heart. I'm also a Ham Radio operator and all my radios run on 12 VDC (the truck).
Watching the people in some of these videos baffles me why they're just standing around, ESPECIALLY in Japan where this is not to rare and people should be educated about it.
It depends on where the tsunami waves are. This video shows a HUGE tsunami wave in Japan th-cam.com/video/S9V_XT-r3fQ/w-d-xo.html
Did you hear the birds in the background going g crazy?
awwwh, don't worry. There'll be some kind of mam-made or natural disaster that will get ya, no matter how careful or prepared you might be. We are our worst-case scenarios, and you can just as easily trip over your dog (or shoelace!) and land flat on your back, just out of reach of your Ham radio, water, etc. Good luck. My relatives lived through the San Francisco EQ in 1906; and I lived through the Loma Prieta EQ in 1989; and the Oakland-Berkeley Hills Fire in 1991; and more recently, the Santa Rosa fires in 2017... dang, not a year goes by now that I don't have to evacuate for some damned reason or another. Still, I will likely trip over my dog...and that'll be that. ;)
ASTEROID will hit you now
Or big foot 😬
Stfu I'm from the central valley and a Tsunami would never reach that far inland. The Japan Tsunami was caused by a huge Earthquake and even that didn't cause it to go so far inland. California's central valley is filled with hills it would never reach( Inland)
This is the kind of video scientists will be studying for years. The longer videos where the separation & action of the tsunami waves is visible in the context of geological landscape, the camera is steady. I'vre seen a few such videos taken by steely-nerved amateurs (usually in a fairly safe location, but they had no way to be certain), running to 15 minutes or more, in which they were clearly trying to document a natural phenomena. The Japanese are a great people.
People should always walk in others shoes before commenting! Empathy for other living animals be it people etc. have a heart ❤️
@@DCOM20. ... lmfao trump lost
Theres not much where to walk, only swim after that wave hits
I find it very sad and strange the rude nasty comments on here. And the fact that people believe this is because of WWII or hunting whales. Is this really what people are becoming? If it happened to their country they wouldn't think or say these comments.
Bless the people that lost their lives and the people left dealing with the loss of loved ones and the damage.
I'm with you on this! Evil is obviously alive and commenting on this board!
Thank you
You're very welcome!
tspoon59 • In the last days, people will be lovers of themselves, shunning what is good. Their love will grow cold. We see a cross-section of this on social media, and the vile and viciousness will only increase as the last days play out. (The last days may last for years or today might be the very last day, but still they're the last days.)
Anyone in the video that lost their life deserves it.....really now, as slow moving as that wave is and you can't get out of the way??
This is a great video. So many didn’t capture the sea coming in AND going back out before second wave. Just think..as powerful as the second wave is...it’s pulled back out pretty fast.
This video truly captures the awesome and terrifying power of a tsunami. At first coming in like a fast moving tide which continues climbing higher in surges, until it tops the seawalls, and finally submerges everything in the harbor, it begins to drain back out to sea, at which point _things start to get really scary!_ At 25:00, it comes back with a vengeance, and everything gets submerged again ─ with even greater force!
This one: th-cam.com/video/fkmjXoILYto/w-d-xo.html and this one also: th-cam.com/video/CYVdYSCXG3Y/w-d-xo.html shows it and it looks way bigger than here.
It looks like in most videos if you get caught in the first wave you possibly have another chance at surviving if you quickly try to get to safety. The 2nd wave would be a miracle if you can survive. I'm scared of what would happen if we got one which is really possible next to Oregon, USA our subduction zone is late with the history of our tsunamis and we wouldn't have time possibly 15 minutes.
You can see water levels on the rocks in the background, outside the harbor.
Yes!! I wonder how high those water marks are on those 'rocks'! ?! I might guess approximately 50'.
@@larryslemp9698 5 meter
The only video I've seen that shows a second surge, Incredible !
This one: th-cam.com/video/fkmjXoILYto/w-d-xo.html and this one also: th-cam.com/video/CYVdYSCXG3Y/w-d-xo.html shows it and it looks way bigger than here.
OMG. These tsunami videos are mesmerizing. The sea looks so benign and then, in the blink of an eye, it can obliterate everything. It starts out looking not too bad, then, wow, that escalated quickly, then OMG, RUN!!!! Unbelievable. My heart goes out to all affected, even 6 years later.
What seems to be the problem is, people are not understanding the danger, the warnings can clearly be heard, and enough time is given but, people look and think meh not too bad, then bang too late
A wise man said "never turn your back on the ocean." Having been caught in a riptide near Hanauma Bay, Oahu while skin diving and dragged out 1/2 mile to sea, I know exactly what he means.
@@indy_go_blue6048 Indy_go ..... at least you kept from panicking. I was with a girl on south Padre island, when I noticed this girl had her hands stretched towards shore. I moved towards her and boom, she immediately jumped up on top of me. Nothing I did helped her. She was out of her mind and beginning to drown me. So I went under the water and watched her begging me to come back.... anyway... I'm not going to go into how I saved her, only that it was a horrible experience. People, you must keep from panicking.
I call it Deadly Curiosity Factor. There's always somebody who is mesmerized by the tide receding. I've never seen the tide go out so far on any Tsunami YouTUbe. Saw a YT that showed huge waves coming in at an amazing speed,(looked like 50 mph) racing down the getty and slamming pell mell into the shore and over everything in its way. If you search around you might come across it. I don't know why so much shoreline throughout Japan lacks adequate concrete tsunami barriers. 20-30 feet walls will not stop it, the water just rises and rises until it breaches the wall top. Need at least 50 feet in my estimation.....................
@@nebraskatpp thats happened to me in Maui. A man yelling help coming towards me. I luckily told him to to onto his back and paddle to shore. We were both swimming against the tide towards shore.
Not only the sea walls. The whole coast dropped several feets during the quake.
Yep, bedrock shatter subsidement.
Are you kidding me crap I had no idea it does that
@@chriswickarts it does. That's partly why the tsunami was so much bigger than anyone thought it could be.
Creepy af.
False info fake news
Amazing video. Most video's about a tsunami show only water streaming in and focus on the damage it causes. This one shows what a tsunami really is: a series of giant waves.
+jhcfight And it starts so gently, like you could just outwalk it. Then it just get more and more violent.
actually no, most tsunamis are not giant waves how most people expect it to be like in the movies. its a miles - long plateau of water shoving itself onto the land, it temporarly raises the sea level. thats why they dont stop and water just keeps coming.. a tsunami doesnt get its power from its height. its a disrupted mass of water, down to the depths of the ocean. not like a usual big wave, which is just surface water moved by the wind. the waves you see in this video are max 2-3m. you see the water flowing in at the start? thats already the tsunami.
exactly, but the full amount comes in layers so to speak. There are some huge waves depending on where the break is, but its broken up and just rushes in by the time it gets to what there was of dry land.
jhcfight 8*
I saw the tsunami come ashore in San Diego. It was just like this, except the waves were only a few inches high. All morning the tiny tsunami waves kept coming up the San Diego River channel, receding, then coming back. It was amazing. It was a warning too.
I so wish people would heed warnings like this...it doesn't only happen here, but all around the world when it happens, people seem to be so curious that they fail to see that it is time to go to higher ground...it's almost as if the siren and warning drew people to the water's edge to see what was happening, not thinking that they may lose their lives. Very sad to see so many people lost in Japan...my heart goes out to them all and to those that are still suffering the loss of so many of their family members.
It's bad enough living with hurricanes in Fl.I can't imagine living in fear of a Tsunami. At least we have weeks of preparing where as they don't.
A tsunami could hit Florida though actually. There have been large underwater landslides in the Gulf of Mexico which have inundated parts of the American Coast. It doesn't happen very often, but it is something the USGS is aware of and it is a known threat.
The first waves had a gentle, relentless nature, but the one at 25:00 - man, oh man, head for the hills...humbling.
Also, when I lived in New Zealand, the residents there (especially the older ones) told me they had seen the same thing. (Note: It is the during the receding part when people get sucked far out to sea. It has happened many times in history).
Scrubbing through the video (speeding it up 10-20x) really gives an idea of the power and Volume of water. Amazing.
Excellent video by a cameraman who did it right. カメラマンによる優れたビデオは右手でした。
I’m amazed of the water height difference. At 11:20 you can only see two distant islands, whereas at 17:20 (five minutes later), you can see the entire outline of the ocean floor...
Translation of announcement at beginning "get your ass to higher ground or kiss it goodbye! No One is going to fish you out of a tsunami! It's now or never!" Seriously though, this place should have had very few casualties. High ground is only seconds away from anywhere pictured in this video. A person could have out walked the tsunami here, unlike other locations that were filmed.
Will G ......you should be a comedian....your translation is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard
Most of the people killed in the Japanese Tsunami were the Elderly and then the very young.
The fit younger adults could run and climb where they needed to, but most of the elderly could not as could walk at a shuffle at best, so many died in cars trying to escape or in their homes as they couldn't venture out and family wasnt around to help them as it was during work hours,
I recommend watching this in fast forward motion to really see how the ocean rises and falls several times
Good idea. If you look at the water line on the rocks in the bay it is unbelievable to see how much the water rises and then falls.
I just did that the saw this comment!
I did...... it’s mesmerising watching the rise & fall of the ocean.
Yeah its drastic and quick, I am getting panicked that those people are just down there hanging out. I keep ergeing them to get out of there
Rikunzkentakata was literally wiped from the face of the earth!
It was one of the most obliterated coastal communities that day.
The footage of it defies belief that something of such magnitude could occur.
In most other tsunamis, people moved their boats out to sea and rode out the tsunami at sea on their boats. It appears the worst thing you can do with your boat during a tsunami is have it docked or beached.
It depends of the force of the tsunami. There's footage of the 2004 boxing day in Thailand, where there was a boat being engulfed by waves in the distance out in the sea.
The sound of the railing rattling with so many aftershocks.
Amazing to skip through the video and see the rapid change in water level.
Aaron Bryant ha I did same thing
I know, I kept watching the offshore rocks appear and disappear as the water level went up and down ...
I believe the height of the levee (which is topped by the inital wave) is just under 10 meters, near 30 feet... so if that's accurate, the second wave was close to 40 feet. That second wave caught up to the first wave before the first wave could receed. This video is a very good record of this event.
Wow, all that sea water got held behind those levees after the retreat in a lot of places! Depends a lot on the direction & coast line. If one this size ever headed directly to the Bay Of Fundy, NE Canada, a natural funnel, it would possibly/probably reach 50 meters! Canary Islands land slide or an earthquake could do it.
@@alro2434 luckily the Atlantic has far less tectonic activity. But, one truly never knows what Mother Nature has planned.
The wave height at Rikuzentakata was far in excess of 13-meters. The town was effectively washed away. Over 1,000 people were killed, hundreds more missing.
Well.....we never saw any evidence of that type destruction!!
@@larryslemp9698 why are you saying that?
@@shable1436 ... Because I saw no evidence of the town even remotely being 'washed' away!
@@larryslemp9698 this is evidence that some of it is gone th-cam.com/video/WHYxLvHp8-g/w-d-xo.html
@@larryslemp9698 why would anyone make up a story like that dude.
Oh my, when the water pulled back the second time was so frightening. Thank you for sharing.
3 feet is about 90cm.
A quick rule is divide by 3. For example 30 feet would be 10 meters roughly. And 10 feet would be roughly 3 meters.
Man oh man. Water is the most powerful force on earth. Devastating!!
The Christian Bible says God will not destroy the Earth by water again. Global warming suggests it is going to be fire this time.
In all fairness, the people watching from the shore couldn't possibly have imagined how bad that was going to be or how high the water would rise.
That was some very angry water. There's one pole I looked towards as a reference. It was almost covered with one of the surges.
The periodic rattling is all aftershocks... So, if the water lines are any judge, the normal sea level is about 2:45, so I'm thinking the video starts with it 4 or 5 feet down, at 12:10 it peaks at 25 or 30 feet up, then up to 17:30 and 25:00 it looks like it's dropped as much as 15 or 20 feet below even the start! Good heavens... And keep in mind that the large flat structure on the far left from about 18:30 onward is actually the town protective wall filled with water!
I grew up in a house overlooking the Pacific Ocean in California and this was always my worst nightmare.
Knowing it'll 100% happen one day, but not knowing when or how bad it'll be is tormenting.
West coast residents are waiting for " the big one "
The Science behind a Tsunami is terrifying.
The ocean recedes, then forces forward again at a greater volume & power, leaving devastation in it’s path! 😢
10秒スキップしていくごとに水の量が増していく…
It's very sad indeed. My heart goes out to all the homeless and displaced sea life, ripped from the safety of their rocks and uprooted from the sea floor. How many baby clams, crabs, lobster, sea anemones, sea horses, octopi, and fish lost their lives in this disaster? It's a terrible tragedy :(
No
There needs to be a place for ugly troll people. They have to be judgmental and nay sayers because their life is so boring. There is NO country where all are bad or good, not even here in Good Ole America. There are thieves in every country. There are murders in all countries. And unfortunately there are ugly trolls EVERYWHERE. I personally report them to spam when they try to be ugly on my posts. Blessings and good thoughts to all that survived this tragedy. My heart goes out to you that lost loved ones.
I agree with you brother
Well said Paulette
Crazy how the 2004 Tsunami was so violent from the beginning, and the 2011 Tsunami starts off almost peacefully
It depends on a lot of things -- the stage of the tide, whether the trough or the wave arrives first, and especially the shape of the sea bed offshore.
Please stop politicizing these tragedies of nature. The wars ww1 & 2 were over a long time ago. Time heals wounds. I lived in Okinawa on the air base & they wanted us gone. But they were the nicest people. Stop using politics to make them feel bad. Move on.
A Japanese person posted it to TH-cam. 🤔🤔😂😂😂😂
The reality is, no matter where on the planet you live, we're all vulnerable to the changes in weather. Bless the people of Japan. 🌹
最初から船が着底してる時点でもう尋常ではない津波が来る証拠…
他のところは、もっとすごいですね。家や車が流されて、津波のうねりや早さがすごいエイ像がありました。
It's amazing that within 6 minutes, the breakwaters are almost seen at the bottom to not being visible at all. And watching the rocks disappear. I wonder what those look like under normal conditions
Increase the video speed x2 then it’ll be easier to contemplate this terrifying event 😔
I liked this example of the Japan Tsunami in 2001 because it shows the strangeness that occurs. The ocean level seamed to rise early on (the small islands) with the first wave. The later waves that did some of the horrific damage in other regions; the water can be seen to almost suck itself out of the bay and the overall water levels drop considerably before the final way. Just a very interesting naturalistic version of such a horrific event.
Melangelle Fatalis 2011
Melangelle Fatalis 3-11 is not the name of the tsunami it's the date. March 2011
D Man1954 I know that it happened in March 2011. Why I said "2011" in my comment is because you have it listed in your caption as 2001. I wasn't giving you the NAME of the tsunami, I was giving you the CORRECT YEAR.
Angel Deville I don't. The original commenter does. That is who I was explaining it too
D Man1954 Sorry that's who I thought I replied to, the original poster. I guess I wasn't paying attention when I hit reply. WHOOPS. 😄
Compared with other prefectures, this one is like a bigger then normal tide. Pretty tame.
A meter is basically 39.36 inches. A yard is three feet, 36 inches. So a meter is basically 3 feet 3 and a half inches. I grew up with feet and inches but in science we use metric, so I am pretty fluent in the usage of both systems, though everything is based on SI units, so I prefer those if I can use them.
I feel your pain Japan, my heart goes out to you xox
Waiting for that water is terrifying. Those poor people
The same thing happened in Alaska several years ago. They had a 9.0 and tsunamis also that ran up the fijords and gained great heights. There weren't a lot of people however, like Japan. When my parents took me to Alaska, when I was very young, I still remember the dead pine trees from the salt water that was coming inland from the more extreme tides. I'm wondering if Japan will now also experience more extreme tides
I live here since 2011 luckily anchorage most likely will never get tsunami, but I taken the drive south and seen portage which sunk
one of the better vids because the fella was using a tripod properly, and wasn't trying to make viewers' motion sick by needlessly fussing with the zoom the entire time. sad event and impressive video.
Anyone know at this specific location how many waves came in and how long it took until the water came back to its normal level? It seems to me it took many, and a very long time.
Watch the rocks, the earth does what it's gonna do. We aren't in charge.
A tsunami is a series of waves coming in and it goes out again like a series of waves, but the incoming waves are caused only by the underwater earthquake, whereas the outgoing waves are caused by water returning to the sea by gravity against the weaker last incoming waves.
It starts when a vast area of sea bed rises suddenly lifting all the water above it. When that water comes down again, the first waves leave in all directions. However the pressure created beneath all that falling water causes another upward rising of water which drops again causing another outward going wave. This up and down movement takes a while to settle causing several waves to go out until all the energy of the rising seabed has been dissipated.
The waves arrive on shore in diverse ways depending on the contours of the shoreline and the angle at which they strike land.
When most of the waves' energy has been spent on land, the water starts to flow back to sea against weaker waves still coming in. This causes whirlpools and very choppy water as flow and counter flow struggle with each other.
After a while, the direction of flow is more out than in, but there are still risings followed by ebbings until the sea settles down again.
Caulker ... man you better stick to caulking.......'cause you don't have a friggin' clue about the dynamics of water and/or tsunamis!! Your silly-ass comment makes NO sense man!!
@@larryslemp9698 wdymn
Is the rattling you hear from things shaking due to aftershocks? Or the incoming surge?
They built their houses on the hills, above the reach of water, very smart decision.
This is video with least amount of destruction, of all tsunami videos.
Very powerful video. I wish I spoke Japanese so I could understand what the people are saying to each other. However, there really are no words to describe the sheer power and terror nature can deliver.
On the way, I smile at the laughing voice of the local residents. Even though they are victims, they laugh like others. I do not know about the punishment
There was two separate quake epicenters cause 2 distinct tsunamis arriving differently at each port along the coast. Sometimes arriving together at the same time and sometimes as two separate large waves.
That is not my understanding of what occurred. Is there an article that this theory is based on? The tsunami produced several waves over a long period of time, which is what a tsunami usually does; I haven't read about two epicenters.
+justplainpossum Me either
Kevin how did you find out their were two epic centers could you give me the longatude latatude
Um, no.
That is NOT why there is more than one wave.
Every time I watch the videos about this I want to open my arms and hold those who survived and offer them my home. And I do.
It almost feels wrong to thank you for sharing this. I know there must have been more casualties than this shoreline and the boats. Amazing how it just keeps coming. You can see and hear the power behind it. Scary!
... this is a pretty famous event. Yes, there were many casualties. Glad to see you found your way out from under that rock.
The speed at which the water picks up the grounded boats and sweeps them over that wall. Just horrifying
As someone who lives in New Mexico, I cannot imagine the power of all this water coming ashore.
You have the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico
@@aussieallstar66 New Mexico is not near the Gulf of Mexico.
Now I know what ‘the ocean swelled’ looks like. It just eerily rises and so quickly.
I agree 100%. This video is the most comprehensive I've seen. The camers person must have used a tripod as the vid is very steady. I'm very sorry for everyone's loss here, I hope and pray things are getting back to normal.
Signed, A friend from the U.S.A.
Some years ago, we had what was dubbed a 500 year flood. This makes that 500 year flood look like a puddle jumper! I cannot fathom living through this!
When this video starts everything looks so peaceful. This was just a tragedy.
I know that this was two years ago but it’s crazy when you think about it they say that a fisherman out in the ocean won’t even know a tsunami went underneath them per se because it is like a peaceful little thing for lack of a better word than all the water gets sucked back out and it is just peaceful until it is not living in New York we are very blessed but I say all the time when the conversation comes up that weather is the most unbelievable ridiculous thing ever some of the natural disasters that happen in this world are almost something out of a sci-fi movie
大したことないだろうと、思わないで逃げて下さい、命は一つです
Probably the first time in history that a disaster of this size would be captured by so many citizen journalists, And they have insured that future generations are warned at just how deadly a tsunami of this size can be
I'm so sorry any person had to go through this. It's terrible. I will never forget such a tradegy. Much love always. The weather is getting worse.
This is the result of an undersea earthquake.Not the weather
Compare 10:52 to 24:08. Amazing.
What caused it to recede and fill back up 3 times? Aftershocks?
Wave after wave after wave... Just as it looks like the sea is receding, a huge wave comes in at 17:35 and the sea becomes a roiling white mass. Scary stuff, especially the huge spray at 18:00 that must have reached 100 feet.
Thank God it was during the day. Can you imagine?
Wow....parts of their country are being torn apart and people in this video sound like it's just another day in paradise.
With the number of tsunamis that hit Japan, this is probably just anther day in the lives of a fishing village. These people just pick up the pieces and rebuild.
The break of rocks slowly disappeared and then slowly reappeared.
The birds seemed more disturbed than the folks.
This is unbelievable.
This is absolutely terrifying!! And people are just standing there right next to the water watching 🤯
10:42 Arrival of second wave, which is bigger than the first but hardly noticeable because everything is already submerged.
"Arrival of second wave..." -- at that point can one see most clearly how fake (cgi) it is!
Watching this clip it is quite terrifying to see the Sea water recede at 8:40 minutes and you can hear the birds screaming in the background in distress knowing something is about to happen!
Okay, smartypants:
Prefecture comes from the latin title "praefectus" (governer). And praefectus itself is derived from "praeficere" - "to appoint to command".
Oh, thanks a lot "clancy688" for this very important information! ✌️
I imagine, in my language (I'm Italian), "prefecture" or "praeficere" is: "governatorato"!
Best wishes
海外ニキの持ってる秘蔵映像マジですごい😮
they all just underestimated this disaster. I think we all know now that there's a reason for that tsunami siren. I live in northern California on the coast. we have several areas and towns that would be gone after something like this. so so scary. Japan paid the price. hopefully everyone's learned by now for when it happens to YOU.
Amazing To Watch This..And Was Amazed How fast This Came In Again Near The End..Thanks
Weird. That’s now how I pictured a tsunami. Guess I’ve been watching too many movies where this thousand foot wave comes roaring in.
There was settling under many of these sea walls due to the quake. Some lost 10 feet of height so when the tsunami came, a 30 foot wall was, in reality a 20 foot wall.
Thanks for the upload of this frightening video.
It is quite amazing to think something happening, what was it, 30 miles away, could have, firstly such an enormously drastic effect at the epicentre but still had more than enough power to do such damage to places with great sea defences, walls 7 and more metres high were breached.
Do you know of any place nearer to the epicentre which has film of what happened, the rise of the sea must have happened almost instantaneously. Awesome!
mrbluenun
There is a Japanese video network called FNN311 (I hope that’s right). They have many very good video compilations of that day.
I just can’t fathom what those people went thru. To lose loved ones. To lose everything you’ve worked your whole life for. Peace and prayers
Incredible footage, Thanks.
God Bless all the poor people! It’s really heartbreaking 😪
First surge is surveillance ,second surge destroying ,third surge to kill.sooooo humble
The most powerful destruction force in the planet.
so many after quakes. eerily quiet at the start. then the terrible roar and snapping. I pray the survivors have found some peace.
The amazing thing about this whole event, is that even though the shake was one of the strongest offiiciGod bless you people of Japanally on record, I have seen little damage on the coastline and near interior buildings. All the damage has come from the water, with water unaffected buildings showing none, or little damage, It is so sad to see this video, but your nation has done so well to recover and advance forward.God bless you people of Japan and thank you for your kindness to me on my visits to your wonderful country. Arigatoo Gozaimashita. Aishimasu.
Someting went wrong on the first 2 lines, I hope you understand what I was trying to say. KI O Tsukete. Brian. New Zealand.
theyre lucky to live on the high ground
What seems to be the problem is, people are not understanding the danger, the warnings can clearly be heard, and enough time is given but, people look and think meh not too bad, then bang too late