Why the Indian Ocean Tsunami Was So Deadly
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- The Indian Ocean Tsunami was one of the worst national disasters ever in recorded history. What made this so deadly? Was it the disaster itself, or the response to it in the immediate aftermath?
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„On average, once every 15 years a very destructive tsunami strikes.“ 2020: write that down, write that down!!
You know this format 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Most tsunamis are in the Pacific ocean
Ameha K Los Angles? Seattle? San Francisco? Portland? Alaska? Hawaii?
If people have to be displaced, lockdown will inevitably have to be uplifted to move people, and that wouldn't be very good
@@robloxgamingwithisaac999 they are on all near the Pacific Ocean
I left the Andeman island almost exactly an year before the Tsunami hit the island. When i first left, i coincidentally met my childhood friend, and his parents where we next shifted, about 9 months later they moved from the mainland to the Andeman islands. His mom was my dad's childhood friend. On one destined day, we got a call early in the morning, informing us about the tsunami. My friend explained it tye following.
" the water came rushing in and before we realized half of our building was underwater, somehow we managed to get on the roof, soon realizing it wouldn't be enough as another wave came in and washed us off the roof, the next time i remember was me wedged between a tree trunk with mother holding on to a nearby tree, all i remember her saying was, hold on, don't let go....A wave came, and she was gone"
My friend was left with injuries all over his body because of the debris, however his waistewas particularly in a bad shape because of being sucked and stuck between a tree branch. My friend watched his mother for the last time that day, and sadly, her body was never found as well.
Feeling so sorry for your friend's family😔😔
Are u Bengali ?
@@RajaGanesha-sj1ip No, I'm from the state of J&K
@Toto Huraib yeah.
@@harryc.2054 no it's a proper swastika, a Hindu religious/pious sign. A Nazi is a tilted swastika, which is evil.
My uncle left Thailand the day before this hit. His best friend lost his life sadly, none of us have recovered from this, and now my mother has a phobia of the ocean, understandably.
Lol...obviously not true. Why are you lying?
@@ryerye6587why are you allergic to sad stories
@ryerye6587 how do you know it's not true? Your just a sad human being 😂
Why is it we always have to have a disaster before we start making preparations? Scientists had warned that the Indian ocean also needed a warning system like the Pacific one for years.
I agree it’s always the aftermath that we as human beings tend to prepare
Like when the shit already hits the fan that’s when everybody all of a sudden wants to prepare other we tend to ignore warnings
And the Pacífic System Warning was made due a huge tsunami and earthquake in Chile. 9.5 grades
Because we would all be wrapped in bubble wrap if that was the case.
@@jaimep3432 so you don’t mind dying then cool
Burma Plate: I’m feeling a little bit tense.. Let me just strecth a bi-
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omg you're so clever buddeh
Stretched too hard
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Mat33 230 000 people died Mat
00:56 when you try to smooth out your coast in Cities:Skylines
Lol relatable
Oh sh*t, my city!
(You can never recover from that)
Country roads...
@@futfan9092 Take me Home
Leandro Paredes to the place
I have a friend who survived the Indian Ocean tsunami in Andaman and nicobar islands he described how horrifying and deadly that experience was
Some horrible video exists on that.
A small 10 year old girl saved thousands of lives that day by just judging the tsunami would come from signs she learnt in a geography book. Hats off to her👍👍
This is in English book of NCERT 😀
Who was she? Where was this?
@@levity90 I don't exactly know... I just remember that my dad told me this
@@levity90 I think it was in Thailand. She was on vacation with her family and her teacher had just taught about tsunami. So when she saw the ocean receding she and her family warned the tourists on the beach to move to higher ground.
@@NarutoUzumaki-xd4db NCERT Books started including disaster management classes after this event. I was in class 8th at that time and 6 months later a new subject was introduced when I was in class 9th. After that only it became a regular topic taught in classes.
1:22 2020 be like "that's a great idea!"
Here after the Indonesian volcanic eruption
fyi krakatoa volcano just erupted yesterday so uhh
@@aulianyb why did I think of SpongeBob
And great now there is a tsunami in Indonesia
@@devanram9517 Seriously???
"This system has a total of 7 dart stations, scattered around the Indian ocean"
Literally concentrated between India and Aceh
They can be only seen near the Indian islands and in the Arabian sea
The satellites are mainly Indian, so they are playing the big-daddy here.
Cause there's the subduction zone, where's the tectonic plate activity occur
Earthquake: *tickles volcano*
Volcano: *achooo*
Ocean: .... *ploop*
Lmaoo what a cute way to put that 🤣
I wish my social teacher was this way.. I would've aced social science
Lol this just made my day
@@amruthavalli1260 😀
In just 3 💩 actions, humans go bite the dust
As someone who was a part of this disaster. I appreciate this video. Thank you
You're one lucky human being to have seen this,lived it , and survived it.
Entire world: advanced tsunami warning
Japan: Giant walls
It was shown that even a low wall holds the first surge back giving many minutes for people to get out of streets that will be instantly impassable once the water starts.
Now people just need to use those minutes to run not dawdle. That's what they're teaching.
They also have excellent warning systems as well as their "Kaiju walls".
*Mega Tsunami has entered the chat*
In Japan the tsunami went over the walls.
As the video points out, there were simply no advanced warning systems in place in 2004. Also, many people near the epicenter of the 9.2M megathrust earthquake felt strong shaking for several minutes but didn't have a clue that the earthquake would trigger destructive and deadly tsunami waves. There are videos of people seeing the strange sight of the sea receding ahead of the first wave who curiously went to investigate and thus stood no chance of survival as it bore down upon them.
In New Zealand we lie on the major plate boundary between the Indo-Australian and Pacific plates with a subduction zone beginning to the east of the upper south island that stretches all the way to Tonga. Recently along this fault line there was a magnitude 8.1 megathrust earthquake that ruptured near the Kermadec Islands that didn't thankfully produce devastating tsunami waves. Our Civil Defence agency occasionally plays TV ads telling us if an earthquake feels long or strong it's time to get to higher ground.
What is quite common in the country I am from and still live in is the amount of complacency that is prevalent. Occasionally when news articles are released about the risk of major earthquakes in this country there is always that element of people who call it "scaremongering" as it's "not likely to happen in our lifetimes". These kind of people would no doubt whinge about not being educated enough if a major earthquake does strike our country. Just over 10 years ago a 6.3M earthquake devastated the city of Christchurch and killed 185 people, so it stands out as a clear example to not take earthquakes lightly.
Even in Japan in 2011 with that megathrust earthquake it still managed to claim almost 16K lives and Japan being a very seismically active country had pretty decent warning systems in place.
As someone who lives very far from a tectonically active area, it’s hard to imagine being near the ocean, feeling an intense quake, and being like “eh, whatever, might as well take a leisurely stroll and look for damage or something instead of getting to higher ground.”
Had the nations that love to treat these “exotic” locales as their cheap tourist destinations helped deploy early warning systems the death toll would have been MUCH lower. Heaps of vacationing Europeans were killed in this catastrophe. Selfishness invariably makes victims of everyone.
This is not true. Island of Java had specially designed systems to provide advanced warnings. But as you can read in an interview in Nature, Nanang Puspito outlined the lack of proper phone connection which barred them from alerting Jakarta the necessary information to take action. Jakarta had knowledge of the earthquake. But even if they could, the most advanced systems like in the Pacific Ocean first alerted Thailand and Indonesia no serious threat was looming. It took an hour to correct that. By them, the tip of Sumatra wouldn’t have truly had time regardless.
And They also had other systems but they just were inadequate. Thailand and Indonesia are on the warning alert system. This network has incredibly accurate scientific systems to measure seismic activity. The Indian Ocean does not have that infrastructure however yes each country does have devices in place to measure seismic activity. But when inadequate, it makes it very difficult to make accurate predictions in a timely way.
Also none of those videos you reference are from the area of Aceh which was the land site closest of the epicenter. Those videos exist but they are relevant bc this would have been first instance in this specific tsunami. Meaning, the retreat was an estimated hundreds of meters. You are reading that correctly. I’d like to think I’d react correctly but that’s literally unbelievable. Biblical even. It’s one thing if a tell tale sign presents itself. But hundreds of meters of retreating ocean? That would be like being in a monumentally large thunderstorm then immediately on a dime it get calm and clear. I’m from Oklahoma so Im very familiar with the signs as the plains get twisters regularly. I know it’s possible for weather to calm just before given tornadoes almost always atleast in the plains occur on the leading edges of the fronts. So it would make sense as the system curls to get brief reprieve and thenUnimaginable devastation. The more calm, the bigger the edge, the bigger the tornadoes. But if it’s a huge storm and it happens THAT fast, I might not think this is dangerous bc how could that Happen in that sequence? Much like it’s highly unusual for water to reheat hundreds of meters. But this wss also one of the largest quakes every recorded. It’s important to capture the nuance of the situation. They were just idiots. This was impossibly unique. And honestly for them given the water retreat, they actually couldn’t escape regardless unfortunately
@@CYMotorsport your final statement calling tsunami victims 'idiots' is quite jarring and undermines everything else you've written. I would expect someone who seems so intelligent and knowledgeable to have a better understanding of why people behaved the way they did
@@CYMotorsportDid you happen to be in *El Reno* on that horrible day of *May 31, 2013* or were you somewhere else? I have always wanted to talk to a survivor of that dangerous Tornado...
~ JonseyG 👲
My home town kanniyakumari(Southern most tip of mainland India) was hit by this destructive wave. Its one of the most important tourist spots of our state.
"approximately once every 15 years a very destructive tsunami strikes."
2020: *SPOILER ALERT*
If it makes you feel better, we're not due for another until 2026.
This year has been so crazy already I don’t doubt it
Don't give out your name that was only 7 years after this one tho, I wouldn’t count on 15 years being definite
AtarahDerek if you go for that explanation then i guess we are overdue for yellowstone eruption
Yeah cause last tsunami hit Japan during the year 2011
I'm from the second most attacked country of the 2004 tsunami. I was only 3 years old at the time. We lived very near to the beach but in our area, it wasn't the most affected town but the water level got about 10 feet high. Of course my family left before the second wave and I remember a few second of us leaving, me and my siblings crying, confused aa the wave following us slowly. And yes we had to leave without anything but just few of our clothes. I'm very glad to have survived the disaster and feel very sad for the people who suffered or passed away :(..
I’m glad you survived 😊
@@picklep9812 :)
@@SeungkwanBombasticsideye me too I was too born in 14 January 2005
So u might be Sri Lankan
My wishes for everyone who died in this natural disaster and who were widowed and abandoned
In the immediate aftermath of the tsunami, the pro-independence movement in the hardest-hit area, Aceh, declared their truce and worked towards demilitarisation & reintegration of their political wings into civil society.
@@FiredAndIced That's Incredible
Well if a massive tsunami like this happens approximately every 15 years then we may be in for another great surprise in 2020.
*NASA would like to know your location*
Well there was the Japan one...
Please stop, 2020 doesn't need any more ideas
and we are only in the 4th month of this year 😳
Damn as if the year isn't getting worse
One strange occurrence was fishes not of local nature were being caught along the coastal areas of India. Possibly due to tsunami. Many local varieties disappeared or catch was in reduced amount for few years.
did u start the video by saying 'toonamis'?
Yup.
Haha, wtf didn't realised
Lol that’s funny
Eh could of been sunami instead
😂
Closest country to the epicenter : Indonesia
Everyone : Thai Tsunami!,
Indonesia : ._.
Also most of the victims is Indonesian :(
Wkwkw iya aneh
@@annasfathoni2809 probably because most of video of the tsunamis are recorded in Thailand. There are some that i remember come from Bandar Aceh, although most are from news channels
I live in Malaysia which is next to Indonesia and I was born exactly 4 days after the tsunami. I'm grateful my mother and my family was somewhere safe.
@@eliraeclipse2435 So? Should we care?
I did a earthquake and tsunami project last year where I had to select an earthquake and talk about it. I chose this one. Yeah it was pretty bad, especially the damage in Indonesia like Aceh
Yes Aceh was devastated rest in peace to all that died.
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More than 160000 people died in Indonesia
And in South India more than 3,00,000..
@@pragyapriyanjli6780 total indian casualties were 12000
65 percent of people who died in this disaster died in the city of Banda Ache. Banda Ache was a city of about 300,000 people that sat in a coastal plane right on the ocean and a 30 meter wave reached the city only 15 mins after the Earthquake while people were still disoriented and assessing the earthquake damage. It took everyone completely by surprise and completely leveled the city.
I remember I was in some marriage and was very young and the next morning I heard relatives talking about a big disaster occurred in south India . Thing is nobody knew what a tsunami was till then in India
Stop using the word nobody just tell the common people didn't know much about it. Tsunami has been a known fact for a long time. It's written in vedas and few local stories. Probably they didn't know the word Tsunami but they knew what it referred to.
@@gwadamit8116 Replying to a two year old comment. What a clown.
@@gwadamit8116THEM DAYS THEY WERE KNOWN AS TIDAL WAVES.
06:25 Could we have a moment to appreciate the sheer awesomeness of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Info Centre logo
Even though it's been 16 years, we Indonesians still remember that day and remembers it as a major event that happened back then
"Celebrate" isn't the right word. Sounds kinda cruel. "Observe" sounds better.
Celebrate?
Celebrate? My god sis pick a better word
I'm Indonesian and i don't celebrate that
I changed it, sorry about that though
I had a dream where I was standing on the beach and a wall of water that encompassed my entire field of view appeared in the ocean in front of me. I don’t have many nightmares but that was one of the most terrifying dreams I have had. I could not imagine what that was like in real life, my prayers go out to the victims and their families.
I also had the dream but the only diffrence is my home is 100 metre long from sea
Hmm, I had 3 dreams like that I looked it up and it meant I was repressing my feelings/emotions 😔😔
@meow it depends...some dreams might be true and some not
I had a vivid tsunami dream once that is up there as the most terrifying nightmares I’ve ever had. I was swimming with my sister in a beachside hotel pool, and I noticed the waves receded way too far. I shouted at my sister, and we got out and began walking back toward the hotel. My mom started shouting at us from the balcony to get to higher ground quickly, and before we could leave the pool plaza and enter the building, water was visibly rushing forward. We ended up being pinned to the wall by water, and my sister was able to begin climbing balconies. I’ve always been shorter and weaker and I scrambled for a while but was able to get up eventually. Watching the people get stuck in debris and screaming was to most difficult part. I remember wondering where my dad went, and if mom was okay, and it was just a horrific nightmare. Couldn’t sleep after that one and had to call my parents just to check in.
I can’t imagine the lasting scars of those who have actually lived through or lost someone to a tsunami. My heart goes out to them.
I had some nightmares like that when I was younger. Sometimes the waves came from the shore to the sea, obliterating everyone's body, and then the water started to laugh
6:42 one thing I noticed is that there are almost no sensors placed around the ocean south of Java, while that area has the same mega thrust with the one around the west side of Sumatra. This is dangerous, hope Indonesian government notice it and take it seriously
I don't think so, you are not allowed to travel there with gf if you are not married
I experienced this 9.1 earthquake, fortunately I was far from the sea. I live in Aceh Indonesia.
AlmostWins u play blitz? On EU server?
@@themaus3847 i am Asia server
AlmostWins ok, I play on EU.
Okaaayyyyyyy.....Were you actually going somewhere with that, or more likely are you just stating some babbling bs?
@@DalerMehndisTurban I left my house and I was on the 2nd floor and saw my house clearly shaking as I was outside.
It's been over 15 years years since the Indian ocean tsunami...... I think 2020 has other plans for us
Damn 2020 making its own top 10 records
I'm scared since I live so close to where it hit a few years ago. Well I didn't exist yet back then cause I was born 4 days later.
here after a scientist from indonesia predicted that a 20 meter tsunami could happen in a close time in south java,good job 2020
@@spatchcockedturkey4597 wow I am in south java :(
@@eliraeclipse2435 well be alert remember an earthquake is the first and last warning!!!
2:49 On of the reasons that mid ocean tsunamis are hard to detect from ships is that the wavelength, not shown in this animation, is enormous.
Often more than 100 km.
So, even with a speed of 800 km/h the ships will observe almost nothing.
Here exactly 16 years after the boxing day tsunami that wrecked my country and 13 others. RIP to all the innocent souls who fell prey to the biggest natural disaster of the century🙏
I remember this i was 10 me and my family should have died when it happened..i saw everything me and my family were on vacation we were staying in our beach house when tsunami hit us my family was sleeping i couldn't sleep on that day so i was just sitting outside looking at beach than suddenly the whole beach got very calm i saw water slowly going back to sea i got sacred woke my parents up they to saw it but didn't care went back to sleep.. i couldn't sleep i just looking at ocean than couple of minutes later i saw huge waves in horizon i screamed my parents woke up came running saw the waves.. we all claimed at rooftop of our house and screamed we called police and tried warn our neighbour we threw our roof tail on them it was to late waves hit was without warning everything in house got destroyed we all would have died if i wasn't outside on that day.. after tsunami hit us i so traumatised it took 2 days to for me recover from it sadly our neighbour didn't make..it..
i’m sorry you experienced this
wow...thank you for sharing your incredible story ❤️❤️ amazing you survived and were able to save your family 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
*we would have died
Thank you for telling your story! May you live a blessed life!
I remember this very well. It was boxing day right after Christmass and as was our family tradition, we always went to swim at Kenyatta beach in Mombasa, Kenya.
The waves that day were bigger than usual which was enjoyable. My Dad now retired then worked at the Kenya Ports Authority.
I just remember my elder sister who wasn't swimming yelling at us to get out of the water. We did and about an hour later beach officials were asking people to leave the water. My Dad had received the news early as an official at the port. Sadly, a few people died as a result of being carried off by unpredictable waves.
Thank God my dad was able to reach my sister on the phone.
When the Tsunami happens 16 years ago, I was 7 years old and my birthday is right on the same date as the disaster occured.
Thank God I can escape from that horrible disaster exactly 80 minutes before the Tsunami strike my place as my house located not too far from the coastline
Where is your house exactly?
@@papercloud8923 At the Cot Paya Village, Baitussalam District, Aceh Besar Regency.
Actually, it is way more far from the epicentre, but, you know, the greater the earthquake power, the wider the area were affected by the tsunami, including the area where my house's located
@@LoveDiveChannel bro just say the city or country you live not your address lol
@@space4166 Meh
Hey were the same age lmao
Still remember footage on tv from the 2004 Indian Tsunami. Thoughts and prayers to the families even today.
The best Tsunami Warning system out there: If you see all the water going back into the ocean/receding off the coastline, get the fuck to high ground.
True. The trick is to actually SEE the water receding
@Samoht, the eternal I mean most Coastlines are safe-ish, just know where high ground is. And also since when is salt water bad for you?
@Samoht, the eternal No, I am not an idiot, and maybe if there is other contaminants in the water it could damage your skin, or maybe if you live in salt water, but the thousands of times I have been in salt water has not affected my perfect skin once.
@Samoht, the eternal I feel like alot of you who don't like swimming in the ocean just don't live near one... If you enjoy swimming, then swimming in waves is just a new way to enjoy swimming. I am Scandinavian and we love our polar dips in ice water, so that is another element of ocean swimming I enjoy. If you don't like swimming in the ocean because you are scared or can't swim then cool, but theres nothing wrong with swimming in ocean water, periodic exposure to (non contaminated) salt water is not bad for your skin. And yes, I do have perfect skin, I am Scandinavian after all.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a tsunami this year, earths been throwing all kinda curveballs.
It just happened in Turkey
@@lullabygo7788 bruh that is crazy I just realized hahah
There was a 6.7 in Greece that caused a tsunami.... guess you were right
@@zeusescoven8266 Have you seen the videos of tsunami caused by Mt Krakatoa explosion? Or the earthquake that caused huge tsunami in Palu, Indonesia? That one was really terrible that makes you think twice of running to any hills to avoid tsunami. The ground just liquidified and swallowed whole villages while near the coast, the tsunami ravages.
Most of waves went to north and west, the tsunami didn't reach to my hometown here in West Sumatra province.
But Indonesia is still has the highest victim
That was perhaps from the seafloor affecting the tsunami. Most areas of the Aceh Province was affected by the waves. Not sure where in the province you live, or how old you are. If you could give an exact location, I could figure out why your area wasn't affected that badly.
@@sigisoltau6073 it is because there are so many chains of islands that can break the waves before it reaches the coastal areas.
The tsunami's destruction had the farthest reach at Piring Beach, Sibolga, and Nias, for the west coast region. Both locations are on North Sumatera Province. At Nias and Sibolga it varies between 1-3 meters.
Coming south to the West Sumatera Province, there is another archipelago, Mentawai, which helps breaking waves from Indian Ocean. And any waves from Sibolga direction had weakened since there is a shallow water.
Based on simulation, there should be many tsunami waves on Mentawai and West Sumatera coastal areas. Nevertheless, the height was low enough to cause massive destruction.
Kalo gak salah sih mentawai juga kena tsunami
Like if you’re here because of “The Impossible”
Haha! You too huh?
Impossible*
You To? My mom watched that yesterday!
Just got done watching on Netflix 😬
Shit was saaaaad
the fact my grandma was in it, she luckily survived when trying to get lemonade and then heard so many screams, and quickly ran up the hill and not many survived
I saw the tsunami myself back in 2004 in Sri Lanka, East coast. The mother nature can really hurt at an unprecedented level. I just hope another tsunami at 9.x doeent happen again.
Im sorry 😭💔
As someone who lives in Sumatra, I still remember how a M9.5 earthquake shook the island and seeing on the news live how devastating the tsunami in Aceh was. I was lucky because at that time I lived in the mountains, 500 kilometers from the most affected scene, but the earthquake shaking was just as strong. But for our brothers and sisters in Aceh, not so much. Dead bodies everywhere, lost families and friends, the sights of what used to be where a town or village stood but after that, it was leveled to the ground. For a 7-year-old child at that time, it was the first time I felt fear and deep sadness seeing the worst natural disaster in my life so far.
Thailand DID NOT GET similar death and destruction to Banda Aceh and North Sumatra. In Sumatra, waves were up to 35m high and rubbed out a city, towns and villages - 130,000 people. In the Andaman, up to 15,000 died with up to 8m high tsunamis. Totally different.
1:22
me, who lives in mumbai: **nervous sweating**
Who’s here after _The Impossible?_
I hope that everyone is staying safe during these times.
Stay safe, everyone
I am, thanks!
@@goodcat1982 Coronavirus TImes
goodcat1982 9:50 pm
To be honest, I expected way more measurement systems.
It's probably extremely expensive to create, not to mention the maintenance that it probably has.
Those who can afford it,have the most,,,see that all of those 7 dart systems were indian and 'scattered' around india and her islands,,,
2:36 the usage of Hebrew, Arabic, and English on the sign implies that the warning zone is located in Israel. It would never occur to me that there could be tsunami in a place like Israel. Would the tsunami come from the Red Sea or the Mediterranean? I’ve never heard of a tsunami coming from either of them.
"The Mediterranean Sea is a vulnerable regions for tsunamis. Around 25% of all recorded tsunamis in human history took place in the Mediterranean.
Every 100 years on average a significant tsunami takes place in the sea, and every 250 years on average a tsunami strikes the shoreline of Israel."
I just googled it
קריסטינה קניג Yes, this is true, as Israel does have earthquakes about every 70 years..
If there's volcano, there's a tectonic plate, and it means earthquake. Grece and Italy have volcanos so it may happened and I remember that Alexandria Lighthouse was destroyed by earthquake ....
So tsunami is very possible ~
Ye what did u think we have so much earthquakes
@absolutely nothing out of nothingness well true but as far as i know earthquake is a warning
It's 4am here.
That's enough internet for today.
The way to improve it is by adding more measurement stations along most fault lines, not just to warn but also to gather data for short term predictions, aka figuring out what it looks like just before it occurs and using that data to prepare tsunami warning in advance for those countries most likely to be affected.
they can only detect it after the wave has sterted wich doesent leave long im afraid its the best we can do we cant predict the quake that will cause it
agreed, by adding more instruments we will learn what happens before, thus we can then add instruments to for-warn and also evacuate with more than 20 minutes...we are only human, but nobody wants to see somebody die if they could have been saved.
@@petaanderson2295IT DIDN'T HELP THE PEOPLE WHO DIED OF LOCAL TSUNAMIS. IT WAS A LANDSLIDE IN 2018 & THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED & WORKED NEAR THE OCEAN DIED. THAT LOCAL TSUNAMI KILLED ABOUT 5,000 PEOPLE, WITH AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM INSTALLED. THESE DISASTERS WILL CONTINUE TO HAPPEN REGARDLESS OF WHATEVER SYSTEM THEY HAVE INSTALLED. PEOPLE JUST HAVE TO LIVE & WORK AS FAR AWAY FROM THE OCEAN AS POSSIBLE. THAT SEEMS THE ONLY WAY TO AVOID GETTING KILLED BY THESE TSUNAMIS.
0:28 normal waves are mainly caused due to wind blowing over the ocean which creates friction and generates energy which in turn creates waves.
The gravitational force of moon and sun is called tidal waves which is not the main reason why oceans always has waves.
"on average a tsunami strikes every 15 years"
People: May, no!
Tohoku tsunami: Am I a joke to you?
September 2018 and December 2018 Tsunamis: Why does everyone forget about us? :(
@@marcustulliuscicero5443 Those are very insignificant compared to Aceh and Sendai Tsunamis.
However, Tsunami like the indian ocean 2004 is very rare, it takes hundreds years to happen again. It was a teletsunami, tsunami japan 2011 was also a teletsunami but smaller than this, compared to 2004, the tsunami destroyed 14 countries in the indian ocean.
@@zeff8820 That is kind off false what you said. The 2011 earthquake was a megathrust earthquake like Indian ocean earthquake and it triggered massive tsunamis as high as 38 meters which was even more taller than the Indian ocean tsunami. In fact, the Japanese tsunami was so powerful that it managed to destroy or over-power 15-20 meter sea walls installed in the coastal cities and it even travelled to Hawaii and California. If anything, the 2011 Tsunami was as big of a tsunami as the 2004 Tsunami.
@@yoursocialistbestie3333 But still the 2004 tsunami is the world deadliest tsunami. The 1960 tsunami is not as deadly as the 2004 tsunami
I was 8yo when this happened, I thought the tsunami only hit my country but now I know how big it actually is
"Every 15 year a Destructive Tsunami Occurs"
I live in Indonesia where the distance of the Megathrust fault that has the potential to cause an earthquake of up to 9.0 M with my house is only 500km away : 😢
I recently saw those tsunami warnings signs in Phuket, and Other than raising awareness to tourists, they seem kinda of pointless and ill-located. One sign in the middle of Pa Tong will have an arrow pointing towards a supposed tsunami evacuation route, which is literally just the road you’re walking on, and no follow up sign or route. Simple advice: if the ocean starts receding, run up the hills!
Indonesia was the worst affected area, with most death toll estimates at around 170,000.
2020 has been such a challenging year it's going to be very interesting how this year will end.
better be ready for 2021
@@nigelbaddock better yet better be ready for 2023.lol
Me realizing it happened 16 years ago instead of 15: God playin' too much this year.
0:10 it was reported 10m or roughly closer to 30 feet. I assume you mixed them and extrapolated?
No, the wave that first struck west Sumatra was close to 100 ft high or around 30m
As someone who lives in Hawaii I’m pretty surprised that we don’t get tsunami‘s as often as you would think. Like we are in the middle of the ring of fire. Knock on wood I don’t want anything to happen. Earlier this year we had a tsunami scare due to a earthquake that happened in Alaska. But as you said 15 years and I hope it isn’t us
its rare. how long have you been living in Hawaii?
Hawaii isn't on or near a plate boundary. So no. You won't.
Because you're in the safest place in the ring of fire
You can’t live in Hawaii if you think Hawaii is anywhere near the ring of fire or just delusional.
Thankfully in Hawaii we are right in the middle and quite a distance away from tsunamis… what the idiots in the other response to your comment are missing is that Hawaii is one big chain of volcanoes and some still active and that’s a risk as an under water eruption or landslide is plenty enough to cause damage. Thankfully those are rare but the people are well informed and the warning systems quite effective. Like more recently during the NZ earthquake and Tonga eruption… thankfully I was actually taking a natural disaster course during that time so learned a lot about it as it happens since well we covered it in class in real time. One thing people underestimate is in both cases of tsunami warnings we had although we didn’t get hit it had a significant affect on the tides and currents (our lecturer showed us a normal tide gage compared to how it was that day and oh boy was it a massive difference). What that means is stronger currents and ocean conditions than usual and Hawaii already being a very dangerous place , it made it way worse. So if you were a clueless tourist swimming in the wrong spot that usually is fine you could get caught in a rip and end up off shore…
my cousins died that day, they were tourists in thailand both parents and the 2 kids. may they rest in piece
In my country (Sri Lanka) many ppl went to see it when the sea receded, because nobody knew what it was... that was one of the many reasons many ppl died.
My cousins were on a boat in Thailand when the tsunami hit. They were lucky to survive as every one else on the boat lost their lives.
the closer you are to the land, the deadlier it is. There's a story in Indonesia how a group of fishermen sailing off to the sea. They felt the sea was hauntingly silent, then a shake- one big wave that left them in bewilderment. A few hours later when they returned, they were greeted with the sight of their destroyed homeland. Can you imagine saying goodbye to your family for your job, when you were about to leave everything was so lively, but when you return you were left with nothing else.
My dad was in my village that was affected by the tsunami.
Thankfully he survived
I lost my grandfather to this tsunami. I was just 5 at the time and I bearly got to know him.
I was 13 years old first time watch this on news tv...i was shiverred. From this first time i learned about tsunami
what I'm curious about is how copacetic the infrastructure of high-risk areas are to quick, universal evacuation, and how that can be improved. After all, there's little value in an early warning system, if everyone just ends up in a traffic jam together while still in the danger zone.
Yeah. Unfortunately I don't think any warning system could have done much for Banda Aceh. Too many people, too close, too flat. Almost nobody could have gotten anywhere helpful in the maximum of about 10 minutes they might have had to do something.
Japan in 2011: this is the worst tsunami ever
Indonesia: *Are you sure about that*
Don’t subscribe to Me who said that? who tf said japan had the worst tsunami
Another factor was the lack of awareness from the public in these places… meaning even once people were warned many either did not take it seriously or did not know what to do and what not to do… for example seeing tides retreat does not mean it’s a good time to go shell picking on the exposed sea floor… it’s a sign that you must pick up your legs and run faster than you’ve ever ran in your life towards high ground. Not that long ago Tonga was hit by an underwater eruption and a tsunami absolutely ravaged them… although infrastructure damage was intense, there were very few casualties considering the violence of the tsunami and the proximity of the islands… that is attributed to the fact that these people are constantly well aware of the risks and were well prepared to react quickly and get themselves to safety. Since 2004 that’s has changed a lot since countries that are not used to getting hit understand they still might get hit and people tend to be better prepared now a days… added to the fact that information can circulate quickly it’s a game changer. I lived in hawaii during the Tonga eruption and the earthquake in NZ in the last few years, we almost immediately got a notification on our phone that tsunami warnings were in affect and even though we had a slight chance of a significant hit considering the distance, we were still warned to be ready to head to higher ground and stay clear from the beach…
When the sea recedes drastically , time to get your behind to higher ground.
Very informative, your videos are amazing! Thank you so much for these quality videos.
tectonic plates: bump into eachother
tectonic plate 1: dangg man sorry
tectonic plate 2: its alright
people above them: BRUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I was 6 years old and still remember seeing this on the news and being traumatized
Now u gone like a big lady lol
The weird thing about the very few people who died in South Africa. They were unaware of the earthquake and just went swimming as per usual and the waves took them in. A sad and weird way to go 😢
Did he say “toonami” in the in beginning? Lmaooooo
Bruh he said tsunami. And was it even that funny bruh
TemeG
You must be great at parties
Jogger Lives Don’t Matter bruh she overreacted so much
TemeG I mean it did kind of sound like Toonami
TemeG i think you are overreacting
6:11 that hand gesture is kinda sus
Hi all. My mother’s friend went to Indonesia and was there at the time of the tsunami and was staying At the place it took place. Luckily she went on a trip that day to another part of Indonesia where it didn’t reach
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You are wrong : it was not a 9.2 but it was a
9.3 Uber earthquake. The # 2 most violent earthquake in history, south of Banda Ace the waves were 38 to 40 nts high, shame nobody could share a video with us because Indonesia is very poor and they didn’t have too many video cameras as they did in Thailand in 2004, or Japan in 2011, it was a monster Tsunami caused by a monster Uber thrust in a 9.3 earthquake.
15 years is not an exact warning, it’s an average occurrence. Japan 2011 and the 2004 Sumatra event are obviously 7 years apart. Tomorrow could bring another, so grateful for science and advancement of early warning devices.
This is just propaganda by Big Seismic Activity
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Pls bro
It's a hoax, waves are flat.
@@hkr667 Waves are flat discs!
Uhh... Flat wavers
I am relieved that there are so many systems to warn us. I live just south (20 minutes) of Vancouver and heard that we are overdue for a major quake and tsunami. I love it here but can't help but be increasingly nervous!😱
I'd be more nervous of the volcano under Yellowstone
@@sian2337 a tsunami is way more likely though
Rest in peace to those that passed away.
yeah and i live in banda aceh rn, a city that receive the most destruction from tsunami :)
Why don't you move to another location... I'm just saying for a word.
Great content. Never knew there was a RLL2 until it got into my recommendations. What's the difference between this and RLL other than the person presenting it?
*This happened the day after Christmas...*
•_•
Indonesia was in Santa's naughty list
Called boxing day too just saying which means opening up your present
@@excusemin4560 lol
@@excusemin4560 dude wtf? People died?
@@sharmanveraj3281 do I look serious?????
Once every 15 years huh? Indian Tsunami 2004. Six years later, Japan Tsunami 2011: Hold my beer and watch this.
Dude Indonesia is like surrounded by natural disasters which are close to the Pacific Ocean which is called the (Ring of Fire) location, the Indian Ocean, the Australian continent and the Asian continent.
almost the oceanic and continental plates are around that country
No wonder there are many earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis
Flashback to 2004 I was there :( when the Tsunami hit my hometown
Glad you’re safe!
@@littlered444 :)
hope you get better
My first response i was told about this was "this going to be bad"
Nowadays you’d hear there was an earthquake in the ocean hours before the tsunami hits you because of social media and you’d be able to take cover.
actually in 2004 i was in India (even now) we decided to go to church near sea on Christmas day but we thought we can go tomorrow morning so we enjoyed the Christmas day and headed to town and we reached there after 10 hours to see police saying restricted area and saw people screaming and we even saw some bodies. we thought it was some bomb blast in church and we asked the police abd he said big waves hit the city and we even didnt knew the name of it and we were sent to a camp nearby because we were forced to. after reaching we saw people with sadness and fear in their faces so we came and sat by the radio and it started to say " in india 18,000 people died of a huge wave, mostly in our state and we were scared. and after we decided to stay there because we had some of our realtives there. and some one in the radio its a tsunami and we were confused what is that. after some time some people asked can you rescue people to my family and only men and we refused and we were scared that what happens if other wave come but some explained if you were in sea youre safe and only in the coast its a problem and after a long bargain we accepted to join them we headed to sea and we could only see a lighthouse, a mosque and the church and we going inwards to sea we were headed to island but find none and we found that itd underwater so we had some skilled in our boat so they dived inside to see the remains and they came back and there werr full of bodies which sunken and eated by the fishes and one of divers got injured in leg so we had move immediately. and heard that its origin was from indonesia nad all of its detail. after 3 days we were sent with the missing relatilves and we weee very thankful for god and very guilt for the people who died.
thank you you just helped my homework
Not to mention all the chucklenuts that ran down to gawk at the water when the ocean pulled back, then were overwhelmed when it barreled back in.
Actually, the first tsunami warning system in the Pacific started after the disaster of 1946 when a strong tsunami hit the Hawaiian Islands unexpectedly. The first warning from this system occurred in 1948. This was based purely on seismographs detecting earthquakes in locations where a tsunami could theoretically be generated; there were no ocean sensors for decades after that.
That graphic showing the subduction of the two plates made it seem like all that happened was that the earth just bumped the ocean.
Only 1 person said “first.” I’m impressed.
First
133rd
Including you or before you? Seriously though, that's really the best comment you could come up with?
@Daler Mehndi-I was talking about before me, and no, it isn’t. I have 2 other comments (not replies) on this video. Usually I see about a hundred people saying first, so it surprised me when only one said it.
The tsunami was very dangerous, terrifying and deadly 😢😮😱😡😠😠