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69Liters t1_j6zkjp5 wrote

A lot of footage I’ve never seen before including of the tremendous earthquake that preceded the tsunami. I also hadn’t realized so many people were killed!

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GR3MLIN t1_j6zr9nb wrote

How bout that giant whirlpool in the ocean? That was a surreal event.

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bruyeres t1_j704rri wrote

Anyone else getting a ton of tsunami-related videos suggested to them on YouTube recently?

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cloudphorest t1_j70949h wrote

I remember watching this unfold Live on TV. Incredible and terrifying.

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spredditer t1_j709593 wrote

This is the content I subscribe to this subreddit for. Seeing how fast the water and debris was moving over those farm fields is incredibly scary. I hope the world can learn from each other's mistakes.

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GunnieGraves t1_j70afng wrote

Seeing stuff at the 18:50 mark both being swept along by the tsunami but also actively on fire is quite a sight

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Jun_Inohara t1_j70d2tf wrote

Just came back from a two week visit to Japan and I made a side trip up to Sendai. I visited a school which now serves as kind of open air museum about the effects of the earthquake and tsunami. It was very sobering seeing what used to be there and what does and doesn’t remain. Thankfully all the students and staff there that day survived (about 90 ppl) as they were able to escape to the roof but I won’t forget it for a long time.

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BoyceKRP t1_j70i8ck wrote

Just came across this on YouTube. This footage is visceral. At 15:51, the cameraperson perfectly captures the immediate shock of the flooding event. What a terrifying experience... Floody muddy burning chaos.

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LorenzoStomp t1_j70qj9f wrote

Incredible footage of VIDEO UNAVAILABLE

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PagingDrHuman t1_j70umfk wrote

But don't forget the very worst part was a nuclear meltdown that required 60,000 to be relocated/s. The Tsunami was devastating, everything washed away, hundreds of thousands killed, but nuclear was the dangerous lesson for part of the world. It was so bad and the government was so unprepared the Yakuza started running supplies to help communities without extortion.

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nailbunny2000 t1_j710176 wrote

Replying to cloudphorest (#1,710,078)

Yeah, it was like a movie. I remember that wave of water going over the low flat land and seeing a car driving down the road, all of a sudden a big burning boat riding a wave of debris is nearly crashing into the car and they barely get away.

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sellmeyourmodaccount t1_j714vvs wrote

The effort to clean up after that must have been incredible. There was probably a million tons of debris.

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typed_this_now t1_j715r99 wrote

Replying to cloudphorest (#1,710,078)

I was driving home from uni and heard on the radio it was all kicking off. Turned the tv on and gave my mate a call whose parents and young siblings were living in Japan at the time. Took waaaay to long to get in contact with the family. Very scary afternoon.

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Mr_Straws t1_j71ffne wrote

It's still crazy to thing that in 2004 a Tsunami killed nearly 230,000 people. It seems like such a huge event that has mostly been forgotten

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mindsnare t1_j71gygx wrote

Replying to 69Liters (#1,708,790)

It's amazing the natural disasters that have happened in the last 20 years that people seem to have just completely forgotten about.

In 2004 an earthquake and Tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed almost a quarter of a million people.

In 2010 300000 people were killed in an earthquake in Haiti. Crickets.

It's absolutely wild. I'm not suggesting we're bad people or anything, or what the reasoning is, but it's pretty mind boggling.

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Obes_au t1_j71i0gy wrote

That was new 12 years ago.

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SarcasticAssClown t1_j71kb7j wrote

Replying to mindsnare (#1,711,747)

Some years ago I was in Banda Aceh, the town on the tip of Sumatra where the 2004 tsunami made first landfall. They have a tsunami museum there, and a generator ship that used to be in the harbor is also maintained as a monument where the tsunami dropped it - some two or three kilometers inland on top of a house. Blew my mind to be honest...

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gundumb08 t1_j71o2ua wrote

Replying to nailbunny2000 (#1,711,176)

It's strange, in movies they always showed tsunamis as a big, arching wave. Somehow, real tsunamis are more terrifying, because it's not one big wave, it's a constant push / flow of water that just doesn't stop.

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The_Patriot t1_j7242u0 wrote

Ultimately, the official total for the number of those confirmed dead or listed as missing from the disaster was about 18,500, although other estimates gave a final toll of at least 20,000.

This is "Faces of Death" on a grand scale.

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dis690640450cc t1_j727k9s wrote

Replying to mindsnare (#1,711,747)

Well there were all those Americans posting videos callously saying that this was “pay back for Pearl Harbor”. Because apparently dropping two nuclear bombs on them was not “pay back” enough. I think a lot of this forgetting is caused by a lack of caring or outright disregard.

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hootlaska t1_j72a96n wrote

Replying to vinng86 (#1,712,746)

In anchorage a few years ago there was a big quake at Xmas time, the one that broke the on-ramp from airport road to Minnesota drive. Scary in the moment, but the aftershocks are worse in terms of mental health, over 220 aftershocks “above 5.0” sounds terrible

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Likes_The_Scotch t1_j72o9p3 wrote

I lived there at the time, I can't bring myself to see the footage again.

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TheGrayBox t1_j72r4zw wrote

Replying to PagingDrHuman (#1,710,998)

I’m not sure why every time this comes up there’s some need to blame the rest of the world for reacting to the nuclear meltdown. The Japanese government clearly saw it as a concern too, hence the evacuation.

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NaloraLaurel t1_j7345wp wrote

Replying to DrunkenlySober (#1,713,537)

After reading up on natural disasters of the past and reading about massive floods in almost every civilization around the world, it truly is terrifying.

And knowing how little we know about our ocean floor. Everything could just get washed away and sink and all that’s left is the giant rocks we stacked up.

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DrunkenlySober t1_j73595u wrote

Replying to NaloraLaurel (#1,714,861)

The scariest disasters are known as mass extinction events. There have been 5 in the history of the earth. These disasters add numerous species to the extinction list

The last one was 66 million years ago and killed 75% of all species. The gap between these events has been as short as 20 million years and as long as 130 million years

The scariest of these events is an asteroid collision. Hard to detect, can happen out of nowhere, and absolutely devastates the earth including very extended environment changes

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Shadyboi t1_j735y1a wrote

I didn't realize there was this much extra footage I didn't see. Absolutely surreal event.

> "my car's finished...I'm finished....everything is finished..."

-the speed of the Tsunami -number of people left homeless and hungry -dealing with the multiple aftershocks -the nuclear reactor's emergency systems failing

Thank god Japan's emergency and relief services had their shit together or this would have been so much worse.

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NaloraLaurel t1_j738ek9 wrote

Replying to DrunkenlySober (#1,714,910)

5 that we know of 😂 I’m willing to bet catastrophic floods are far FAR more common than we think. I mean just look at the clear signs of water erosion that blasted through Mesopotamia and the top portion of the continent. Clearly visible on google earth.

I think how little we know about the rock we live on and it’s history is the scariest thing to me.

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happybarfday t1_j73bv6a wrote

Mind blowing footage of this Tsunami is incredible

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cheezpuffy t1_j73k89g wrote

incredible mind blowing footage? no way!

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Nemo_Shadows t1_j73nx8k wrote

Now image what one a mile high and 2 thousand mile wide with 4 thousand miles of water behind it would do.

N. Shadows

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