We had a Tsunami alarm in the 1990's on Kauai, Hawaii. I remember driving home up to Kokee, there were several dozen cars, trucks, trailers with horses, mules, people on horseback, etc. The wave did not hit, but we always head for the hills.👍
yes alarm (either by animals or man-made alarm) is useful for early warning indeed but we never know how high the waves are, some video i watch abt 3.11 warned for 3 meters high tsunami, but the reality is different, over 10 meter wave destroyed whole city
@@KTaeyoung The waves were higher at some coasts than expected because beside the earthquake, there were also under water landslides involved. The highest point was 40 meter (130 feet).
It may have had a lot to do with what he was seeing thru the lens. Initially he was only seeing water come in, but after the second retreat of water, there would’ve been unbelievable destruction, numerous bodies in the water etc. that’s a lot to take in while happening in that moment 😢
This unedited video is informative, as opposed to the prevalent newscasts, because as the intervals between the recession of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th waves clearly shows, it is seen that people were going to lower elevations; despite the repeated threat of multiple waves, the loss of the protective time-buffer of the seawalls and floodwalls (despite their failure), and the loss of local emergency broadcast systems to warn of continuing dangers.
if that was my dog, I would be listening to him... I can't begin to imagine the stress, anxiety, and sorrow you all go through, far too often... it's difficult to watch but I admire your courage and wish you the best possible outcome in the future...peace
Oh the dogs were all barking and the seagulls were wailing like the 2nd coming, just listen in every video, plus the retreat of the water is a sign that you better get far far away, and very high up just in case they knew devestation was looming!!
What was equally sad was seeing people sweeping up the day after. I suppose that's their coping mechanism. Keeping themselves busy. I'm not Japanese nor was I there but I'll never forget this day.
And not just scientists learned from this videos, but I as well. Living in a tsunami zone I never thought about this possible income. To be honest before this videos I probably would have thought lightly if those sirens ever went off. How many of us now are going to react differently because of these videos? THAT is what makes them heroes in a sense because they have and will change lives.
If you lived in a area with high probability of being hit by tsunamis, and you didn't give a shit about tsunami alarm sirens and warnings, then you were... But I stop here, before insulting you. Probably, this disaster would have brutally brought you back to reality...
In a way all the people who recorded the tsunami are heros. Their videos give scientists a good view on what happened, and what went wrong. In the future what they learned from watching these videos will save other lives.
I hope and pray the Japanese coast facing inwards to Russia DPRK & South Korea are safe and the tsunamis predicted 1/1/24 fails to materialise but being closed water my guess is the Japan Sea is about to be another destructive Mother Nature event. It certainly looks grim. Stay safe Japan x
The scary things about tsunami's is that they can be no more than a foot tall far out at sea. Only become dangerous as the sea floor begins to rise when it approaches a land mass.
yup, true, I think that's because, far out in the sea when the wave is formed and starts to travel, it has the volume of the entire water column inside of it, right from the sea bed.
Thankyou for uploading this. Tsunamis have been happening forever but this is the first time the world has witnessed the true majesty and horror of nature. The world knows that the brave people of Japan will come back from this stronger than before.
At the start of the video the camera is steady on one shot, almost as if mounted on a tripod. He could be thinking, "Oh, I'll get some footage of the tsunami." By the end, the camera never stays still for more than a moment, constantly panning, as if unable to take in the overwhelming destruction and incomprehensible spectacle of what just occurred.
The same thing happened during the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Also, the Japanese people have been through many earthquakes and tsunamis through the last 10,000 years. And no, that time factor is not a mistake. NHK World Japan has many historical documentaries about Japanese history. I'm a big fan of NHK.
Thank you for sharing this video with all of us. You did a great job and people will learn form your work. I'm so sorry for all of you. Such a tragedy. My prays for all of you.
I always thought that it was just one wave but after watching this (both part 1 and 2) is now know after having seen this that there were about 10 or more. Each one comes in then drains out then comes in again one after the next every 10-15min.
It feels kind of surreal at the end. Here was a place that was a center of business and activity, then at the end all you can hear is the odd footstep, the call of the sea birds and the noise of the wind and the water. Imagine having that happen to your home town overnight.
There is an eerie appeal to watch the footage shot by all of the survivors. The peaceful ocean showing her power to wipe out life and property. I am sorry for you all in this video. Was the place where you were filming from a planned sanctuary or just the first solid looking high place? Did most of the boats in the first video who were heading out to sea survive? what about the men on the sea wall during the first video who were looking at the tied up small and one larger boat?
Definetly would have been a hard thing to imagine . Thank you for educational yet tragic information . For some reason i tend to revisit every few years .
Where do you even begin after an event like this. Where and what do you start with, other than the obvious looking after the well-being of yourself and your fellow survivors.
yes it is wierd that it came back 3 or more times, thank you for uploading, good luck to families and friends who have lost love ones in the tsunami, may your country recover soon. and i hope all of our funding that we made posseble for you is beeing well spend, not like in turkey.
When the person with the camera walks out of the building and turns towards the front entrance at 53:35 on this video, the banner on the wall reads: “50 years since Chile - Let’s spread the word about earthquakes and tsunamis. Let’s raise the fear of tsunamis! Disaster prevention awareness” How ironic is that?😢
@marlorodo "A small fifth [wave] ..." A "tsunami" is an event caused by displacement of water by various methods. Just as a pond continues to have ripples from a thrown rock, which spread around the surface after the large initial ripples wash onto shore, oceanic tsunamis continue to reflect and refract for many hours after what caused them has subsided. Great and small currents are also set into motion and can persist for more than a day.
I know lumber is a big commodity in Japan. Were there salvage operations to retrieve lumber after some days. How many lost lives here? It seems there needs to be classes everywhere near oceans to show more of how Tsunamis work and destroy. The temptation to survey damage before the waves are done seemed like a big killer and especially needs to be taught as a future warning around the world.
Japan is far more prepared for Tsunami's than most of the world, but this scale is unprecedented: moved the earth on it's axis, coastline dropped over a meter. The US would have suffered far worse: imagine when this happens off the san francisco coast at the number of deaths?
Mi dispiace veramente tantissimo, di quello che è successo in tutto il Giappone. Spero che mai più, dovrete rivivere, una così grande sciagura. Ho voluto vedere alcuni vs video, ed ogni volta, ho pianto per Voi.
I imagine that if you were watching your own apartment building getting half swept away... if that three story building that survived the first wave barely was your home... and you were afraid your loved one was in that building still... you might risk it.
Thank you, for taking this video. We all understand the truth about tsunamis now. That was hard to watch. So many affected, or hurt. Or worse. Hope you, and yours, were all safe. Thank you, again. Best wishes.
They learned what tsunamis do when they're much larger than expected. They know what problems happened during the tsunamis, structural failures and whatnot, that they wouldn't have known by arriving after it was all done. Now they know new ways to protect human life during such a disaster.
So many people were at work around the docks and water ways also some had no high ground to run to. It’s so sad prayers to all the families who lost loved ones. Hopefully this will never happen again
I keep imagine when there are many people inside a small room..but the wave is getting higher and bigger....WTF....thts my worst nightmare...after thinking it...Huhhhh
Very true - ROTFF - especially when the lights go out. That's why we have gun laws in the United States. In an emergency everybody's packing. It's the law and everybody has a gun. 9mm, 40cal even pocketbook 22's. Caliber doesn't matter and when a tsunami's coming everybody goes cowboy
Also Watch and listen to the Birds!! The Birds start to fly around and caw/crow and then a few seconds later the Dog starts to Bark, then barks again and then again!! Then the Tsunami wave arrives.
And I assume in the same situation your presentation on the events would be a rock steady oscar winning performance ? Sure the video is a bit jumpy and zooming like a yo-yo, but as the title says its unedited and raw footage, I think its fair to say the person filming this couldnt believe what they were seeing and were trying to get as much as possible recorded.
What made me watch this was hearing about the Earthquake in Taiwan and that there was possibly a tsunami warning and everything! And watching this devastation just breaks my heart all over again! This is more devastating than watching all the tornadoes hit combined, I'm not saying tornadoes aren't heartbreaking to see but this is so much more on a larger scale!
Just dumbfounded at the lack of getting to higher ground. That baffles me. The ignoring of the warning sirens and just flat out doing nothing to retreat to higher ground. No wonder so many lost their lives. Such a tragedy
I have a question for the filmtaker, Mr. Otani? How many times did the flow of water in towards you and flood, and when did it finally receed permanently?
I believe there were 2 in and 2 out. Not real sure about this, but I thought the 2nd wave was larger, although the first one pretty much destroyed everything.
How come there is no visible damage of the 9.0 earthquake prior to the tsunami coming in? there were 3 major earthquakes that day. he first was a 7.3, the second a 9. and the third a 7.6. Where is the damage from the 9.0 earthquake?
Now nearly 12 years since this terrible day. Has the authorities learnt from this. Our planet is showing us more devastation each time it hits us. Weather, earthquakes, tides are stronger and are we learning.
I'm assuming the older man with the notepad under his arm didn't make it. Haven't seen him not once in part 2....Don't know how he made it through part 1. I was so worried about him.
At 52:07 in PART 1 the old man with the notebook makes his last appearance going off screen walking before the water came rushing in again. He was away from the dock and crossing the bridge towards the building this was being filmed in, maybe he went inside and that's why he isn't in this one.
Alyssa Hernandez is right, I spotted him again in Part 1 around the 52 mark. Hes just nonchalantly watching the waters recede, not sure if he thought it was over or what?? The people filming seemed to be directing him. At least I hope
You fail to realize a hero is someone to saves someones life. And I said in a way, meaning partly, because these videos can be used to save MORE LIVES IN THE FUTURE! You are free to disagree, but some people may never know in the future that these recordings helped save their lives because scientists got a good look at the nature of the waves and how they behaved. It was easy to think of a tsunami as one wave before this disaster, now many of us know how very different.
You're totally right. Both scientists and other people too. This helps you get perspective of how much time there can in between waves, about how quickly tsunami can go, how strong it is. After seeing this you can visualize this scenario in your head and perhaps how you should react, if you were caught up in this. Humans best learn from what they see. So before you could film disasters, people didn't really have clue about how bad that disaster could get, even if they heard or read the accounts of somebody who witnessed it.
And just to think, this is just one small harbor. Think about the entire coast. Then add the initial earthquake damage of the entire region. And of course don't forget to add the radiation from Fukushima.
Jerry Dodge I hear ya! The destruction is so far reaching...I have live over a half century and I know I have never seen such destruction of property...WW 2 was the last time destruction on this scale happened...
0yeme0 That was a horrible tsunami...I remember the photos of coastline with piles of dead bodies and them throwing dead babies into dumpsters...I had forgotten how horrible that was...God rest their souls.
The two on the bridge made it. Their story is told in another vid here. The one in the blue shirt was saved by the other. He was pulled to safety from his car as it passed over the bridge on the way out to sea. Not sure about the notebook guy, but something tells me he did.
Im ersten Video bei 32:23 fängt die Kamera beide mit Zoom ein. Man sagt, der alte Herr hätte es auch geschafft. Viel Glück und Schutzengel 👼 gehabt, meine Herren! 👩🦱
Hey, Japan lives on what she gets from the sea, and by imports, But I do agree about limiting the amount of hunting done, too much and it will disappear, then what will you do? I personally love Bonito flakes on my rice, (with cheese or cream) hehe. but Deora, Your comment was inappropriate for this venue.
I thought the water only went through once , now Im seeing it go through several times! Thats realllly terrible. I had no idead it continued so long rewashing everything> :(
Gary James The undersea shock results in ripple on the surface. The waves are the ripples and the coast is hit as long as those ripples are still big enough to come thar farvand that strong
That would most likely be due to the fact that you probalby arn't too familiar with the lithosphere, plate tectonics or the ionosphere/ionized particles. The layers of the ionosphere, plasm and how it repels certain kinds of radio waves etc. Don't blame things just because you have yet to understand them my friend :)
I think I would move to somewhere at least a hundred meters above sea level. I have actually had nightmares from watching the Tsunami videos. This has to be the biggest disaster in mans recorded history.
A hundred meters is overkill. Forty will do fine. No recorded tsunami is known to have hit 40 meters. (The 1898 Tohoku tsunami was reported as ~60 metres, but evidence shows it was actually about the same height as this one.)
No. The 2004 earthquake and tsunami had a rating of 9.3, and it took the lives of 227,348 people. Then there was the Alaskan earthquake and tsunami of 1964 and many, many more.
..and that 'mud' is filled with sewage & human waste, toxic chemicals, moldy & rotting wood, rusting metal, and the remains of dead animals & humans, etc. In fact, in some disasters, disease kills more people that the original event (a good example would be the horrific death toll in the wake of a major tropical cyclone that struck (and flooded) most of Bangladesh around 50 years ago. Literally hundreds of thousands of people. Many died in the flooding (most of Bangladesh is low ground), but a large percentage of the victims actually succumbed to disease during the months after the tropical cyclone.
15.000 is a big number? ITS LIKE THE WHOLE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD DIED HOLY SHIT. THIS is sad as fuck and.... i dont know. This cant be described in words. Its just for crying out loud. There have been people dying like every second in this video. Its not only a big number, its un encredible number. Just because the people thought it wouldnt be that bad. (・へ・) yeah. Im so fucking omg. Poor japan.
Don't blame God for this disaster. He's not the one who built home, businesses and schools in tsunami prone areas. Japan is the most seismically active country in the world. They have accurate historical records of tsunamis going back centuries. Sooner or later this was bound to happen. A lesson we should learn before the Pacific Northwest coast suffers a similar fate.
Apparently, what she's trying to say is... "If you build stuff near the beautiful ocean, you deserve to lose all of your shit. I can't feel sorry for you," Obviously, a very compassionate woman.
I know this comment was made 10 years ago, but damn. This is the coldest, most callus comment I’ve seen on the subject. My the god you obviously believe in have mercy on your soul.
@@amuseme01 Jane's statement may be upsetting, but nothing she stated was inaccurate. Often, the first step towards learning from one's mistakes is to accept uncomfortable truths about the situation. That goes for our daily lives, and it also applies to society when a large disaster occurs. So, there was nothing callous about what Jane wrote, because what she stated was a lesson to be learned - one that would hopefully save lives in the future. If Jane had belittled or otherwise insulted the victims, or if she had found humour in the suffering of the victims, then that would have been callous, but she did not do any of those things.
They said 35.000, souls. But, if I see these all of the video's and picters. there must be over a, 100.000, souls. :( I am so sorry for all of them. But also for the, animals. :( Love from Holland.
다른곳들 피해가 엄청나지만 한번크게 왔다갔다 하고 멈추더니 여긴 어쩔려고 ㅡㅡ보고있으니 지금 피한곳도 위험하실거같아요. 첨보는 비디오라ㅜㅜ..긴 쓰나미는 첨 봐서 막막하네..The damage to other places is huge, but I went back and forth once and then stopped, what to do about this place ㅡㅡ I'm looking at it, so the place I'm avoiding now seems to be dangerous. It's the first video I've seen ㅜㅜ..I've never seen a long tsunami before, so it's hard..
If he would just look at things slowly with the camera even thru heart breaking devastating event by Mother Nature the love the Japanese have for there mother land is so overwhelming your awesome people
There's one thing you may not have thought of. There were countless aftershocks for hours after the earthquake, and a lot of people were really trying to remain as steady as they could.
Thanks to Shunsuke Otani for recording this and making it available for us all to see, and remember.
We had a Tsunami alarm in the 1990's on Kauai, Hawaii. I remember driving home up to Kokee, there were several dozen cars, trucks, trailers with horses, mules, people on horseback, etc. The wave did not hit, but we always head for the hills.👍
yes alarm (either by animals or man-made alarm) is useful for early warning indeed but we never know how high the waves are, some video i watch abt 3.11 warned for 3 meters high tsunami, but the reality is different, over 10 meter wave destroyed whole city
@@KTaeyoung The waves were higher at some coasts than expected because beside the earthquake, there were also under water landslides involved. The highest point was 40 meter (130 feet).
It may have had a lot to do with what he was seeing thru the lens. Initially he was only seeing water come in, but after the second retreat of water, there would’ve been unbelievable destruction, numerous bodies in the water etc. that’s a lot to take in while happening in that moment 😢
I rode my bike through Kamaishi in 2011 and 2012. It's freaky recognizing some of the bigger buildings and seeing how high the water went.
その日の夜の様子や次の日の様子を見たのは初めてでした。貴重な映像有難うございました。
This unedited video is informative, as opposed to the prevalent newscasts, because as the intervals between the recession of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th waves clearly shows, it is seen that people were going to lower elevations; despite the repeated threat of multiple waves, the loss of the protective time-buffer of the seawalls and floodwalls (despite their failure), and the loss of local emergency broadcast systems to warn of continuing dangers.
if that was my dog, I would be listening to him... I can't begin to imagine the stress, anxiety, and sorrow you all go through, far too often... it's difficult to watch but I admire your courage and wish you the best possible outcome in the future...peace
Dogs just know... they can sense things like earthquakes and shit. I know if I were there and that was my dog I would’ve dipped right the hell away.
Oh the dogs were all barking and the seagulls were wailing like the 2nd coming, just listen in every video, plus the retreat of the water is a sign that you better get far far away, and very high up just in case they knew devestation was looming!!
最大の津波が引いて、もう終わっただろう、
そう思っていた１時間後に、また川の流れが逆流し、うっかり地上に居ようものなら
逃げ場が無くなるような大津波。
津波の恐ろしさが良くわかりました。
貴重な２時間をありがとう。
55:43
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Amazing video! Glad you made it and sorry for all the loss of people and other living things.
What was equally sad was seeing people sweeping up the day after. I suppose that's their coping mechanism. Keeping themselves busy. I'm not Japanese nor was I there but I'll never forget this day.
And not just scientists learned from this videos, but I as well. Living in a tsunami zone I never thought about this possible income. To be honest before this videos I probably would have thought lightly if those sirens ever went off. How many of us now are going to react differently because of these videos? THAT is what makes them heroes in a sense because they have and will change lives.
If you lived in a area with high probability of being hit by tsunamis, and you didn't give a shit about tsunami alarm sirens and warnings, then you were... But I stop here, before insulting you. Probably, this disaster would have brutally brought you back to reality...
In a way all the people who recorded the tsunami are heros. Their videos give scientists a good view on what happened, and what went wrong. In the future what they learned from watching these videos will save other lives.
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I hope and pray the Japanese coast facing inwards to Russia DPRK & South Korea are safe and the tsunamis predicted 1/1/24 fails to materialise but being closed water my guess is the Japan Sea is about to be another destructive Mother Nature event. It certainly looks grim. Stay safe Japan x
The scary things about tsunami's is that they can be no more than a foot tall far out at sea. Only become dangerous as the sea floor begins to rise when it approaches a land mass.
yup, true, I think that's because, far out in the sea when the wave is formed and starts to travel, it has the volume of the entire water column inside of it, right from the sea bed.
Thankyou for uploading this. Tsunamis have been happening forever but this is the first time the world has witnessed the true majesty and horror of nature. The world knows that the brave people of Japan will come back from this stronger than before.
At the start of the video the camera is steady on one shot, almost as if mounted on a tripod. He could be thinking, "Oh, I'll get some footage of the tsunami." By the end, the camera never stays still for more than a moment, constantly panning, as if unable to take in the overwhelming destruction and incomprehensible spectacle of what just occurred.
CORRECT WOW
Remember, there's a videographer behind that camera. It's not moving by itself.
Every time it looks like the water's receding back into the ocean it starts coming back in again. These poor people can't catch a break
Always 3 waves in a tsunami
The same thing happened during the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Also, the Japanese people have been through many earthquakes and tsunamis through the last 10,000 years. And no, that time factor is not a mistake. NHK World Japan has many historical documentaries about Japanese history. I'm a big fan of NHK.
Thank you for sharing this video with all of us. You did a great job and people will learn form your work. I'm so sorry for all of you. Such a tragedy. My prays for all of you.
I always thought that it was just one wave but after watching this (both part 1 and 2) is now know after having seen this that there were about 10 or more. Each one comes in then drains out then comes in again one after the next every 10-15min.
It would be incredibly disheartening to watch your town being systematically trashed in front of your eyes and being able to do nothing about it.
It feels kind of surreal at the end. Here was a place that was a center of business and activity, then at the end all you can hear is the odd footstep, the call of the sea birds and the noise of the wind and the water. Imagine having that happen to your home town overnight.
Thank you for posting these videos!
Наиболее полного видео я ещё не видел !!! Молодец !!! Останется для истории !!!!
There is an eerie appeal to watch the footage shot by all of the survivors. The peaceful ocean showing her power to wipe out life and property. I am sorry for you all in this video. Was the place where you were filming from a planned sanctuary or just the first solid looking high place? Did most of the boats in the first video who were heading out to sea survive? what about the men on the sea wall during the first video who were looking at the tied up small and one larger boat?
貴重な動画ＰＡＲＴ２ありがとう
Definetly would have been a hard thing to imagine . Thank you for educational yet tragic information . For some reason i tend to revisit every few years .
thnx to the poster...appreciate it.
I would never ve seen the details on tv or anywhere else in video..
Where do you even begin after an event like this. Where and what do you start with, other than the obvious looking after the well-being of yourself and your fellow survivors.
突然、何処からともなく容赦なくやって来て、また何処かへともなくウソの様に去って行く、巨大な津波と言うものは、実際、開いた口がふさがらず唖然とするしか成す術が無いと言う怖ろしさが伝わって来る貴重な映像だと思います。
こちらは、長野県。ようやく
このような動画を、何とか拝見しています。頑張りぬいてきた人々を思うと つまらぬことで
弱音は はけないですね
しかしながら、こんなつらいことが、本当に本当に あったのですね
せめて、死者や、行方不明者 さえなかったら、良かった 離れた場所から、応援しています。
yes it is wierd that it came back 3 or more times, thank you for uploading, good luck to families and friends who have lost love ones in the tsunami, may your country recover soon.
and i hope all of our funding that we made posseble for you is beeing well spend, not like in turkey.
When the person with the camera walks out of the building and turns towards the front entrance at 53:35 on this video, the banner on the wall reads: “50 years since Chile - Let’s spread the word about earthquakes and tsunamis. Let’s raise the fear of tsunamis! Disaster prevention awareness” How ironic is that?😢
I live in Oregon, my coast has mtns for protection? It always seems to feel a lil dangerous just to visit the coast.
@marlorodo "A small fifth [wave] ..."
A "tsunami" is an event caused by displacement of water by various methods.
Just as a pond continues to have ripples from a thrown rock, which spread around the surface after the large initial ripples wash onto shore, oceanic tsunamis continue to reflect and refract for many hours after what caused them has subsided. Great and small currents are also set into motion and can persist for more than a day.
I know lumber is a big commodity in Japan. Were there salvage operations to retrieve lumber after some days. How many lost lives here? It seems there needs to be classes everywhere near oceans to show more of how Tsunamis work and destroy. The temptation to survey damage before the waves are done seemed like a big killer and especially needs to be taught as a future warning around the world.
Japan is far more prepared for Tsunami's than most of the world, but this scale is unprecedented: moved the earth on it's axis, coastline dropped over a meter. The US would have suffered far worse: imagine when this happens off the san francisco coast at the number of deaths?
Mi dispiace veramente tantissimo, di quello che è successo in tutto il Giappone. Spero che mai più, dovrete rivivere, una così grande sciagura. Ho voluto vedere alcuni vs video, ed ogni volta, ho pianto per Voi.
I imagine that if you were watching your own apartment building getting half swept away... if that three story building that survived the first wave barely was your home... and you were afraid your loved one was in that building still... you might risk it.
And don't assume it's over till you get the all clear. How many times did it look like the water was going away for good.
Thank you, for taking this video. We all understand the truth about tsunamis now. That was hard to watch. So many affected, or hurt. Or worse. Hope you, and yours, were all safe. Thank you, again. Best wishes.
At 3 minute mark what is the guy rambling on about please ? Isnt same emergency message to be sent as tsunami is close and wave height.
They learned what tsunamis do when they're much larger than expected. They know what problems happened during the tsunamis, structural failures and whatnot, that they wouldn't have known by arriving after it was all done. Now they know new ways to protect human life during such a disaster.
So many people were at work around the docks and water ways also some had no high ground to run to. It’s so sad prayers to all the families who lost loved ones. Hopefully this will never happen again
how many nights you stay at the building before you went home.
I still can't believe this was more than a year ago.
How overwhelming this must have felt.
I keep imagine when there are many people inside a small room..but the wave is getting higher and bigger....WTF....thts my worst nightmare...after thinking it...Huhhhh
Very true - ROTFF - especially when the lights go out. That's why we have gun laws in the United States. In an emergency everybody's packing. It's the law and everybody has a gun. 9mm, 40cal even pocketbook 22's. Caliber doesn't matter and when a tsunami's coming everybody goes cowboy
I don't know what part of the country you live in but it is illegal to openly carry weapons in Florida
It was said before and I'll say it again, LISTEN TO THE DOG!
Also Watch and listen to the Birds!! The Birds start to fly around and caw/crow and then a few seconds later the Dog starts to Bark, then barks again and then again!! Then the Tsunami wave arrives.
And I assume in the same situation your presentation on the events would be a rock steady oscar winning performance ?
Sure the video is a bit jumpy and zooming like a yo-yo, but as the title says its unedited and raw footage, I think its fair to say the person filming this couldnt believe what they were seeing and were trying to get as much as possible recorded.
Exactly. People out here bitching about the camera work like shut up imagine if that happened to you. People are annoying.
What made me watch this was hearing about the Earthquake in Taiwan and that there was possibly a tsunami warning and everything! And watching this devastation just breaks my heart all over again! This is more devastating than watching all the tornadoes hit combined, I'm not saying tornadoes aren't heartbreaking to see but this is so much more on a larger scale!
Just dumbfounded at the lack of getting to higher ground. That baffles me. The ignoring of the warning sirens and just flat out doing nothing to retreat to higher ground. No wonder so many lost their lives. Such a tragedy
I have a question for the filmtaker, Mr. Otani? How many times did the flow of water in towards you and flood, and when did it finally receed permanently?
I believe there were 2 in and 2 out. Not real sure about this, but I thought the 2nd wave was larger, although the first one pretty much destroyed everything.
There were more than 2 waves in this town
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This video is still scary 2 years later.
Erica Rogers this video is still scary 6 years later
9 years 😳
10 years
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58:54 the ominous red glow on the sea that the sun leaves, tells a tale about a sea of death.
hope we all learn something
Or very tall heavy buildings that can't be swept along.
Sorry this happened to your beautiful city friend. I hope your friends and family were ok :)
How come there is no visible damage of the 9.0 earthquake prior to the tsunami coming in? there were 3 major earthquakes that day. he first was a 7.3, the second a 9. and the third a 7.6. Where is the damage from the 9.0 earthquake?
rosemary malloy | The Japanese probably make very earthquake resistant buildings.
Now nearly 12 years since this terrible day. Has the authorities learnt from this. Our planet is showing us more devastation each time it hits us. Weather, earthquakes, tides are stronger and are we learning.
I'm assuming the older man with the notepad under his arm didn't make it. Haven't seen him not once in part 2....Don't know how he made it through part 1. I was so worried about him.
I asked the same question. had 2 men. Survivors? :(
Jessica: I saw them, too, but didn't see them but just that one time.
Sue Howard ~ It seemed to me the people in the building were directing him. That was when the tide receded. I pray he did make it to safety.
At 52:07 in PART 1 the old man with the notebook makes his last appearance going off screen walking before the water came rushing in again. He was away from the dock and crossing the bridge towards the building this was being filmed in, maybe he went inside and that's why he isn't in this one.
Alyssa Hernandez is right, I spotted him again in Part 1 around the 52 mark. Hes just nonchalantly watching the waters recede, not sure if he thought it was over or what?? The people filming seemed to be directing him. At least I hope
@swlovesvegans Thank you my kind sir =)
You fail to realize a hero is someone to saves someones life. And I said in a way, meaning partly, because these videos can be used to save MORE LIVES IN THE FUTURE! You are free to disagree, but some people may never know in the future that these recordings helped save their lives because scientists got a good look at the nature of the waves and how they behaved. It was easy to think of a tsunami as one wave before this disaster, now many of us know how very different.
You're totally right. Both scientists and other people too.
This helps you get perspective of how much time there can in between waves, about how quickly tsunami can go, how strong it is.
After seeing this you can visualize this scenario in your head and perhaps how you should react, if you were caught up in this.
Humans best learn from what they see.
So before you could film disasters, people didn't really have clue about how bad that disaster could get, even if they heard or read the accounts of somebody who witnessed it.
First Wave, second wave, thirth wave .... a neverending nightmare.
The little dog is sweet and very concerned....
That entire 2+ hours worth of footage, and that's what you gathered?
I imagine there was someone who had asked; "Where do we start" and the response, "Right here".
The shock must be overwhelming...The human mind has difficulty processing such scope...Where do you start with that mess?
And just to think, this is just one small harbor. Think about the entire coast. Then add the initial earthquake damage of the entire region. And of course don't forget to add the radiation from Fukushima.
Jerry Dodge I hear ya! The destruction is so far reaching...I have live over a half century and I know I have never seen such destruction of property...WW 2 was the last time destruction on this scale happened...
WW2....had nothing on this.
well there was the indian ocean tsunami a few years earlier (2004 or 2005?) which killed a quarter of a million ppl
0yeme0 That was a horrible tsunami...I remember the photos of coastline with piles of dead bodies and them throwing dead babies into dumpsters...I had forgotten how horrible that was...God rest their souls.
all that water going back to sea doesnt mean its over tsunamis do that it drains than comes back
Ruthless, but, however, reality. We shall survive in this archipelago
And the men in the first video? Does anyone know if they survived?
No
Yes all 3 seen in the video made it into the building
Cornwall : And you know this.. how?
The two on the bridge made it. Their story is told in another vid here. The one in the blue shirt was saved by the other. He was pulled to safety from his car as it passed over the bridge on the way out to sea. Not sure about the notebook guy, but something tells me he did.
Im ersten Video bei 32:23 fängt die Kamera beide mit Zoom ein.
Man sagt, der alte Herr hätte es auch geschafft.
Viel Glück und Schutzengel 👼 gehabt, meine Herren! 👩🦱
the water goes one direction, then the other half way in
Amen
aha I understand. yes the earthquake of march was a big one
Hey, Japan lives on what she gets from the sea, and by imports, But I do agree about limiting the amount of hunting done, too much and it will disappear, then what will you do?
I personally love Bonito flakes on my rice, (with cheese or cream) hehe. but Deora, Your comment was inappropriate for this venue.
Это горе в японии спаси и сохрани людей всех от бед😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢❤
I thought the water only went through once , now Im seeing it go through several times! Thats realllly terrible. I had no idead it continued so long rewashing everything> :(
Gary James The undersea shock results in ripple on the surface. The waves are the ripples and the coast is hit as long as those ripples are still big enough to come thar farvand that strong
Ever made a wave in a bathtub? Think of that, on a massive scale.
That would most likely be due to the fact that you probalby arn't too familiar with the lithosphere, plate tectonics or the ionosphere/ionized particles. The layers of the ionosphere, plasm and how it repels certain kinds of radio waves etc.
Don't blame things just because you have yet to understand them my friend :)
in what year this was happen?
Andy Cabasag 2011 March 11
2011
Andy Cabasag | 2011
What a tragedy. This show brings me back humility! 😘 Love & Light to all!
I think I would move to somewhere at least a hundred meters above sea level. I have actually had nightmares from watching the Tsunami videos. This has to be the biggest disaster in mans recorded history.
Some good advice is to not watch them just before bedtime.
This was the costliest ever. The Boxing Day tsunami killed 250000. This one killed 25000
A hundred meters is overkill. Forty will do fine. No recorded tsunami is known to have hit 40 meters. (The 1898 Tohoku tsunami was reported as ~60 metres, but evidence shows it was actually about the same height as this one.)
Какие страны оказали помощ и жителям? В такой страшной трагедии ?.
No. The 2004 earthquake and tsunami had a rating of 9.3, and it took the lives of 227,348 people. Then there was the Alaskan earthquake and tsunami of 1964 and many, many more.
搖晃太厲害了！
Subthread. Camera shaking.
Aftershocks, fight or flight, not knowing if family friends acquaintances alive or dead. Trying to see everything.
A fourth wave???
Japan should have like a fleet of blimps with loudspeakers and what not. Like the ones the army uses for surveillance.
The Japanese people are very resilient, they stay dignified in the face disaster
So very sad, they are calling out for there loved ones . 💕😟
if my phone didn't skip alot i would have liked this video. that's so sad and scary..
well said.
And the 'flood-mud' gets everywhere!
..and that 'mud' is filled with sewage & human waste, toxic chemicals, moldy & rotting wood, rusting metal, and the remains of dead animals & humans, etc. In fact, in some disasters, disease kills more people that the original event (a good example would be the horrific death toll in the wake of a major tropical cyclone that struck (and flooded) most of Bangladesh around 50 years ago. Literally hundreds of thousands of people. Many died in the flooding (most of Bangladesh is low ground), but a large percentage of the victims actually succumbed to disease during the months after the tropical cyclone.
Can hear the wind up flashlights/generators 42:xx
Imagine this happening without the preparation and warning. 15000 is a big number but it could have been far worse
15.000 is a big number? ITS LIKE THE WHOLE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD DIED HOLY SHIT. THIS is sad as fuck and.... i dont know. This cant be described in words. Its just for crying out loud. There have been people dying like every second in this video. Its not only a big number, its un encredible number. Just because the people thought it wouldnt be that bad. (・へ・) yeah. Im so fucking omg. Poor japan.
Ice Cookie 15,000 is about the size of the crowd in a professional basketball or hockey arena.
Over 18,000 people lost their lives.
26,000 + died
Yep, could of been worse ... could of been 250.000 , Christmas day 2004. Indonesia.
11 March 2021
and if a programer had a choice to program a robot without sin but he programd it with sin would you think hes a good programer?
Don't blame God for this disaster. He's not the one who built home, businesses and schools in tsunami prone areas. Japan is the most seismically active country in the world. They have accurate historical records of tsunamis going back centuries. Sooner or later this was bound to happen. A lesson we should learn before the Pacific Northwest coast suffers a similar fate.
Apparently, what she's trying to say is... "If you build stuff near the beautiful ocean, you deserve to lose all of your shit. I can't feel sorry for you,"
Obviously, a very compassionate woman.
I know this comment was made 10 years ago, but damn. This is the coldest, most callus comment I’ve seen on the subject.
My the god you obviously believe in have mercy on your soul.
@@amuseme01 Jane's statement may be upsetting, but nothing she stated was inaccurate. Often, the first step towards learning from one's mistakes is to accept uncomfortable truths about the situation. That goes for our daily lives, and it also applies to society when a large disaster occurs. So, there was nothing callous about what Jane wrote, because what she stated was a lesson to be learned - one that would hopefully save lives in the future. If Jane had belittled or otherwise insulted the victims, or if she had found humour in the suffering of the victims, then that would have been callous, but she did not do any of those things.
They said 35.000, souls. But, if I see these all of the video's and picters. there must be over a, 100.000, souls. :( I am so sorry for all of them. But also for the, animals. :( Love from Holland.
다른곳들 피해가 엄청나지만 한번크게 왔다갔다 하고 멈추더니 여긴 어쩔려고 ㅡㅡ보고있으니 지금 피한곳도 위험하실거같아요. 첨보는 비디오라ㅜㅜ..긴 쓰나미는 첨 봐서 막막하네..The damage to other places is huge, but I went back and forth once and then stopped, what to do about this place ㅡㅡ I'm looking at it, so the place I'm avoiding now seems to be dangerous. It's the first video I've seen ㅜㅜ..I've never seen a long tsunami before, so it's hard..
These are aftermath videos.
If he would just look at things slowly with the camera even thru heart breaking devastating event by Mother Nature the love the Japanese have for there mother land is so overwhelming your awesome people
There's one thing you may not have thought of. There were countless aftershocks for hours after the earthquake, and a lot of people were really trying to remain as steady as they could.
I really can't understand how can anybody laugh seeing such sad situation like that!
someone probably told them a joke
ショックで正常な精神状態ではないということです
Sometimes you have to vent everything in a laugh to keep from going insane with terror.
amen
My human hands can only be raised into the clouds.
Or was it just the movement of tectonic plates...
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Actually, this city was defenseless without any ocean walls least to say waterbreakers.