Every once in a while new footage (video) is found and posted about the

[yuiyoshida]

Tsunami that hit Japan back in 2011. This footage shows a twenty foot or more wave come in, and the massive amount of devastation caused by the water.

Never before seen Tsunami footage showing how one wave devours an office building in an instant. This is the type of footage I have been looking for. This video was taken after a huge earthquake struck Japan in March of 2011. Japan Tsunami. --from the original poster..

[allan01]

1. been seeing these as well. saw this one . can hear the crows or ravens giveing warning call.

[zeemike]

2. It was deceptively slow.

Not just a big wave coming in.
I did not understand what they were saying but at first they seemed like they were having a good time until they realized that this was no joke.

[packman]

3. Amazing - terribly fascinating

[yuiyoshida]

4. The thing about Tsunami is you can not run away from it...

unless you are out of the area super fast or run up hill. To me its the scariest of disasters. I have been in Earthquakes, and if big enough can do major damage. Tornadoes if you can find a place underground, you could be fairly safe. Volcanoes, give you plenty of warning to get away from..Hurricanes can be big, but if you leave the area and go far, far in land you have a good chance to survive. Avalanches can be avoided, if you know the snow is ready to flow down hill.

A tsunami can come without warning, unless there was a major earthquake you might have time to reach higher ground, but how high is high enough? Its scary stuff!! I used to have nightmares about Tsunami.. and I find the more I watch them, and the more I know about them, the better it is for me to not be affected by such nightmares.

[ChazInAz]

6. Nightmare fodder!

[Enthusiast]

5. Scary stuff!

I have watched all these tsunami videos. They are always fascinating.

[Old Crow]

7. Absolutely shocking.

It is almost unbelievable how quickly things went from a quiet Friday afternoon to total devastation.

One thing I learned from watching the many tsunami videos, and reading newspaper accounts, is how tsunami waves work. Tsunamis have an enormous wavelength, usually measured in kilometers and up to 200 kilometers long. What this means is that tsunami waves aren't simply big, passing waves--they are a series of waves in which the massive wall of water behind them just keeps coming and coming and coming, seemingly without end. These videos show the phenomenon very clearly.

Truly horrifying and my heart goes out to all the Japanese affected. ~lump in throat~

P.S.: Yui, if a tsunami's coming and I'm around, I'll definitely give you some warning caws.

[dougolat]

8. Even more horrifying are the clips from miles inland...

...when it's less disorganized, a wall of debris pushing things over like a bull-dozer, or the pictures from 8 miles in, where the shape of the land focused the wave together to toss cars on top of fairly tall buildings!

[yuiyoshida]

9. It was a wall of black water...