More Tsnuami Footage

[jjjnettie]

I've not seen this footage before, so I thought I would share.
I can't believe how black that water was. All the muck from the bottom of the ocean, churned up. I'm in total awe of the power of nature.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7359558n&tag=mg%3Bmostpopvideo

[iceman]

Yeh I've seen that one - incredibly powerful!

[iceman]

This is one I hadn't seen until the other day.

How scary would this be!??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxWNl7Qc2_A

[iceman]

Another new one I hadn't seen! Wow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsMRyLlMcY

[jjjnettie]

I feel terrible about the whole human tragedy of it all but feel a little guilty about how I'm drawn to watch these videos of the event.
But it's the incredible power, amazes me.

[ballaratdragons]

There are now over one thousand videos about the Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami/Nuclear disaster on You Tube and other video hosting sites!

And the number is growing as people in Japan add more, and Tourists arrive back in their home countries and upload videos.

It is probably the most well documented event in history.

[ballaratdragons]

JJ, in the video you linked to, the camera pans left to show the town, and at 32 seconds you can see cars driving along the road in the top left corner, probably not knowing they are about to be washed away.

Eerie knowing that they might not have made it :sadeyes:

[PCH]

Awesome power. Don't you just feel for those poor people that got caught up in that total disaster

[jjjnettie]

Here's footage that an american fellow took while walking through the park.
No tsunamis in this one though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK--S6PJGX0&feature=player_embedded#at=67

[SkyViking]

This one seems new too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSbDDZEHgZQ
Make sure you watch it to the end, it's amazing how the water keeps rising all the time. And it also clearly illustrates that the first wave may indeed not be the largest!

[Octane]

Incredible footage, Rolf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRDpTEjumdo

H

[iceman]

Holy cow! That last 30 seconds is the most spectacular!

[ballaratdragons]

Amazing footage! It's alive. Crazy!!

[jjjnettie]

Yeah, no way! The ground can just open up and swallow you.
run away!!! Run away faster!!!

[casstony]

I saw a segment on ABC tonight about a town destroyed by the tsunami, but most of the children survived since the school was built on higher ground to protect against tsunamis - nice to see a little good news amongst the devastation. Had it not been a school day I guess most of those kids would be gone as well.

[gary]

So many sad stories have emerged.

On SBS News last night, there was a poignant interview of a Fire Chief in one of
the sea-side towns. The large sea walls meant to stop a tsunami had huge steel gates
that were meant to be closed by powered systems in an emergency. The system
had failed and so the Fire Chief commanded his forty men to go down and close them
manually. They were unable to do so before the wave arrived and they were all swept
away. His entire crew. It was a decision the ashen looking Fire Chief said he regretted
making and would now have to live with for the rest of his life.

[Jen]

:eek::eek: wow that would be so scary to witness something like that :sadeyes: i couldnt stop watching all this on the TV for days but it was just getting all too much for me i had to stop watching it but there is more and more videos coming in every day :(

[Ric]

I've watched a lot of the footage being released.

The first thing that comes to mind is the overwhelming magnitude and speed of the Tsunami.

I think a lot of people under estimated what was approaching.

[ballaratdragons]

Damn! :sadeyes:

[SkyViking]

Yeah, I just couldn't believe he stayed put there for so long, it's obvious from the video how unpredictable the water behaves!

Apart from the sadness of it all, I must say it's very fascinating to see these videos. Must be the first time a tsunami has been filmed to such an extent.
It hopefully also gives people a better understanding of what to expect from a tsunami and perhaps create better awareness. I think many tend to underestimate it and regard it as merely a normal, albeit large, wave and then not take proper precautions.

It doesn't help though when the official warnings we had for the arrival of the tsunami in NZ mentioned something like a probable 15 cms to 1 meter raise in sea level. With our surf beaches on Auckland's west coast regularly pumping with 5-6+ meter swells most people will just ignore such a warning (as they indeed did). But even a tsunami that has travelled far is still notoriously unpredictable and can be quite treacherous if you're caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[DavidU]

A couple of new ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvroGUifcwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzNM1xP5lwk

[jjjnettie]

That first video.... you could feel that womans terror growing. But she kept it together enough to keep that camera rolling. Good on her.

[casstony]

Creepy watching that footpath slide along like an escalator - somewhat more unnerving watching the building twist and sway.

With my wife being from Sanfrancisco our ears prick up everytime we hear 'earthquake' on the radio/TV - it's only a matter of time.

Fishing boats in some western USA ports were warned to get out to sea before this last tsunami reached them - some that didn't lost their boats, so there was still a decent amount of energy left by the time it got across the pacific.

[MrB]

Very strange, that video was new yesterday, only hours old.
Today the video has been "removed by the user" :shrug:
Shame.

[MrB]

Something I have seen time and time again, in the first video, the fault follows the line formed between the different(red and grey) paving.
In a photo I saw a while back, a fault followed(and the land on one side slumped) perfectly along the painted centre-line of a road.(video of it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRUHNRG3cYU))
It is hard to imagine that with all the energy involved in moving earth, it all comes down to a couple of inches of 'weak' spots along the surface for the fault to develop along.
Very very strange!

As for the second video, hmm, something just doesn't look right about that.

[Octane]

Yeah, Simon, the video had been removed about 30 minutes after I viewed it last night, which was annoying as I was trying to show a bunch of mates!

H

[MrB]

Strange, I had come back to save it to hdd. Annoying.
It was the perfect vid to show people how much the water level rose, and how a 4.5M high wall was not enough.

[jjjnettie]

Another one I hadn't seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOfy1CoxrMo
Towns along open beaches didn't cop it half as bad as those living in bays or up rivers, where the water gets channelled ever higher and faster.

[SkyViking]

I saw that one on CNN today, it's just incredible how the water keeps rising...

[Octane]

Thanks for linking that, Jeanette.

It's somewhat like the one Rolf posted the other day that was removed -- showed just how the water kept rising and rising. Except, his one actually showed the multitude of waves coming in and crashing the shoreline.

I wonder why that user removed the video? : (

H

[Jen]

:eyepop::eyepop::eyepop: OMFG that is an incredible amount of force happening there i wouldnt be able to hold that video camera still i would have been shaking like crazy :eyepop:
Thanks for the link JJ :thumbsup:

[SkyViking]

Hi H, I've been looking for that video since it got removed. Today I found it again, uploaded by another user: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIMsoGfIm_s
And here it is also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EVHCDhNp70
With 2 links it shouldn't get lost again ;)

[h0ughy]

wow that last few seconds is surreal

[Jen]

:eyepop: yep he had to move on up the stairs a few times i wouldnt have hang around i would have got the hell out of there :confused2:

:eek::eek:

[bartman]

Amazing vids,

I think that some of them may have been removed because they might have shown bodies or people about to die....like in that last vid I think the person driving that van on the dam edge might not have survived..... and I think (think) I saw a person floating in a yellow rain coat at almost the end.

Bartman

[MrB]

Cheers Rolf!
You must've been stuck in a decent tube-loop to have stumbled across those ;)
Have saved to disk this time.. juuuust incase!

[SkyViking]

I found this photo of one of the approaching waves that I hadn't seen before:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/jpq03111/j07_RTR2JR18.jpg

And the flooded coast:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/jpq03111/j06_RTR2JR0Y.jpg

[iceman]

Has anyone found or seen any footage of the water going OUT?

It must've swept so much stuff out with it on the way out..

[iceman]

Incredible photos!

[iceman]

Nothing like the Japanese ones, but watched a few on the other side of the pacific - hitting California.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2DZ0dPOz1Y&NR=1

[bartman]

here is one from I think the same area as the above vid.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyaCUlsg7Ck

Bartman

[bartman]

And another showing the unrelenting torrent of water, forever rising ;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b-2iByqHVI&feature=topvideos

Bartman

[iceman]

Just found a new one I hadn't seen before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK1zBRA9T3k&feature=related

Amazing!

[iceman]

Three more I hadn't seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVLUOxUDS-8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnY5Z7ovksU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puRaAg_RbWI&feature=related

[jjjnettie]

thanks Mike

[jenchris]

It's both hypnotic and very distressing.
It's a natural disaster sure, but it's also one that should have been foreseeable.
I feel that any future building in that area would have to have a concrete tower as part of any small complex- where locals can get above the waterline quickly - and that can become shelter from the quakes if need be.

The waste of life is horrendous - the problem exacerbated by the flimsy construction methods that a quake prone city use to stop crush injuries.