ShockingTsunami video of 2011

[lovuian]

Last edited Fri Aug 9, 2013, 04:07 PM - Edit history (1)

[snappyturtle]

1. Oh my. I don't know how the photographer kept so calm.

Thanks for posting.

[marions ghost]

2. WOW

First the inlet recedes...then the little waves come in...but people still stay. Then....

Worth watching to the end.

[newfie11]

3. Horrifying

The pictures of the fires look like the gate of hell painting.

[AndyA]

4. Had to have been unbelievable to be there in person

Almost like it couldn't really possibly be happening.

[2naSalit]

5. So sad

It looks like most of the onlookers, at first, didn't think it would be so bad. They are fortunate to have been where they were when the reality of the situation started to reveal itself. Each time I watch one of these videos on the event I watch with my hand over my mouth in shock.

I wonder how those people are doing now.

[lovuian]

7. i thought the same thing

they saw the water coming at them and yet they stayed by the wall calmly
then ran for their lives ....it was amazing

[yesphan]

6. Holy crap !

That was scary. I didn't know there is that much styrofoam in the world.

[Renew Deal]

8. Wow

The fire at the end makes it one of the craziest videos I've seen.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. There were right wingers here that said we shouldn't send aid because Japan is rich.

[Marblehead]

10. yes let's

politicize this

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Can't have THAT on a political board.

[Auggie]

12. Incredible sounds

[Gin]

13. Awful watching the water and debris flow in....and all the people on top of that tall

Building watching that fire spread, with nowhere to go.

Couldnt stop watching until the end.

We never hear how they are doing....maybe its all a ghost town since the nuclear disaster.

[Warpy]

15. It is. I just wonder how many compelling videos

were shot by people who thought the upper floors of frame buildings would be safe. We'll just never know.

I'm always amazed by these videos that show the start. It was certainly unimpressive when it first came in but it just kept coming and coming and coming.

[Botany]

14. that sea wall was 30 + above the normal water level

n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

16. This is not Fukushima* ....

I know its some where in northern Japan, as I have seen this video before. I don't think it is new either, just probably never shown on this website before. During that year of the Tsunami there were many videos posted on DU, and I know that I posted many myself. I saw this video at the beginning of the year, so I know its not that recent.

Still a horrible mess and I am sure there were not many who survived this event. Japan is still, cleaning up in many parts of Japan and of course there are some areas that people can not travel at all due to high radiation. This will be an on going problem for a long time, both in the radiation and in the clean up of the Tsunami.


****This is taken at Kaori Elementary School in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Pref.

[lovuian]

17. on the video it says

Tsunami in Japan 2011

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami which caused Fukashima

[AsahinaKimi]

18. Its NOT fukushima

This is taken at Kaori Elementary School in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Pref.

[lovuian]

19. I edited the post thanks

It didn't say where the school was

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Main article: 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a subsequent major tsunami hit Miyagi Prefecture, causing major damage to the area.[5] The tsunami was estimated to be approximately 10 meters high in Miyagi Prefecture.[6]

On April 7, 2011: 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of Miyagi, Japan, Japan's meteorological agency says. Workers were then evacuated from the nearby troubled Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear facility once again, as a tsunami warning was issued for the coastline. Residents were told to flee for inner land at this time.
which earthquake was it AsahinaKimi

the 9.0 or the 7.4

[AsahinaKimi]

20. proof.

[lovuian]

21. so is damage from the April Tsunami from the 7.4 Earthquake

or the 9.0 in March....if it is the 7.4 one I never even knew all that water came from a 7.4 Earthquake
two big hits in 2011 ...a very bad year