From my understanding, its a wave when the sea level doesn't have a cliff of a kind. Without a cliff of a kind, the water basically has a ramp to build up on.
@@aksmex2576 it's more like a change in the altitude of the ocean. If you imagine a line on one side is sea level the other is 3m higher, all the water from the higher side will move towards the lower side creating a wave of change in altitude.
Translating the man's comments for us English speakers really helps us understand what was going through the villager's minds. Fear, awe, amazement, safety of others, resolution of what was to be all pour out of this man's heart, and yet he keeps a clear head to be ready to react to further danger. One can only imagine the sense of panic and grief once the waters receded and the task of locating family and friends began. Then multiply this by tens or hundreds of thousands of people. He was correct in that they were experiencing a living hell. My heart still hurts for the Japanese affected by this awful disaster.
Remember that the Lord Jesus Christ died on a cross for you because He loves you so much. He then rose up from the dead three days later The Ten Commandments are called the moral law, (most of us are lying thieving blasphemous adulterer at heart and deserve hell) you and I broke the law, Jesus paid the fine. That’s what happened on that cross. By believing that Jesus died on the cross and rose up from the dead 3 days later and not just confessing your sin, but also repenting of all sin you have done and putting all your trust in Him in prayer, He will grant you everlasting life as a free Gift.
@@sstills951 Criticizing him for sounding too dramatic? Even for a troll, that's preposterous l. Hysterically screaming for four straight minutes until he lost his voice wouldn't have been an unrealistic reaction to witnessing this happen to your home town. He just saw his town and probably his own livelihood (he mentions his boat) completely destroyed, isn't sure if the cliff they're on will be undermined and collapse, knows people he knows have drowned, wonders aloud about the safety of the school children. Dramatic? Hush, troll. You'll call the thunder down on your own head.
For all those watching this now... look up Miki Endo. Tragic and heroic story.. she stayed at he post doing the announcements until the 3 story building she was in was engulfed.. she never left her post even though she could see the water coming towards her. She was found almost a month later washed up on a beach. She's credited as saving thousands.
It’s hard to believe this was twelve years ago now, I remember the day this happened pretty vividly. RIP to those that perished and much respect for Japan and it’s people to recover so well!
Wow, thank you for filming this Tsunami. I live in Western Australia which is quite flat for the most part. I had not realised how harmless looking a Tsunami could look from a distance, and it didn’t occur to me that such a high barrier wall could so easily be breached. Very sobering. Thank you again for educating me. Best wishes to you and your family.
@@NoName5589 Right, it looks worse. The monstrous volume of water. Eerie how it slid in over the whole harbour. Thankful they had a warning system. It could have been at night.
If you have never experienced the power of the flooding Missouri or Mississippi Rivers, I imagine it is like that except much higher and with more power. Poor folks that did not get out in time.
“When you see the cheetah running with the gazelle, you run with them.” That was something I heard an old man say in a newscast of the tsunami. He said that when he saw animals that usually eat each other running up the mountain together, he knew something was wrong. He said he saw that a while before the tsunami hit and that’s what saved him. He ran up the mountain.
I was living near Hachinohe the day of the earthquake. I thought the ground was going to open up. I volunteered and did cleanup afterwards along the coast and it was unreal like a horror movie. We didn't have power for over a week, so I put my food in the snow. I had my huge American BBQ grill so I cooked meat for my neighbors and bonded because we were all together in this. I can't wait to move back. I wish more Americans shared the Japanese culture because they are simply amazing!!
Thanks for the translation! I've seen the full version of it many times, but was never sure his exact words. That day still resonates, the loss and displacement and altered lives of so many. God bless!
@@Happyfoam-lw3yt -Faith restored in humanity -Wrecked/dead/ded/dying -was this filmed with a potato? -last time I was this early... -Stop saying who is here, we never left. -in the weird part of CZcams again -I'm not crying, you're crying -she/he/they found their CZcams password -who is watching in 'current year' - 'something else' brought me here - saaaaaaame - nobody: Not a single soul: Me: something unfunny nobody cared to know I could go on...and on...and on.. 80% of people are clones, social media comments reflect that. Accept that, lower your expectations and you won't be bothered by them haha
@@Happyfoam-lw3yt I honestly didn't think anyone else had said that. I don't go on CZcams often and I was just commenting what I truly thought. But I guess I can see how many people would say that though
I wonder if that person driving the white truck at 4:30 lived, you can see that same truck floating back by at 8:48. Crazy how this went from normal to water well over the top of the tallest structure within minutes
@@Gabriel-jg5wh I think he ment the tsunami didn't look anything like how they make it appear with cgi in movies. Like a huge wave crashing into skyscrapers.
@@MrMazvaz these tsunamis here are "small" if u gonna start even comparing it with the movies. Movie ones like what we see example San andreas, it's apocalypse asteroid level of tsunami, it ain't something you will see in your lifetime they're unbelievably rare but it's definetely possible , tsunami's are a series of waves that can have long distance apart like even hours behind the first wave, and these waves can be long up tp 100Km.
@@Gabriel-jg5wh I know, but its still a tsunami and its still terrifying even though its regarded as small. It just puts things in perspective, how helpless we are when nature decides to fuck shit up.
What’s always most terrifying to me when I watch these videos of the 2011 Japan tsunami are that almost every one of these towns had the infrastructure to prevent even a fairly large tsunami from destroying the whole town. The Pacific Northwest of the US is also prone to receiving mega-tsunamis but has none of this infrastructure. I can’t even imagine the devastation we’re going to experience in the PNW when the big one hits. We have no protection, the US will only (maybe) invest in the infrastructure after it happens
What's scary is how often you'll hear those sirens but this time was real, it was deadly, and the most disasterous ever. I think that's why these sirens have become so eerie, they really only signify mass destruction. Even more scary that it only took about 3 mins from the alarm to the water coming in.
@&; it was 3 meters. Thats taller than most living quarters in Japan. It only looks the way it does because they're safe and on high ground. If you saw it face first, it would be 3 or 4 of yourselves combined in height.
It's incomprehensible just how much water was displaced & pushed inland in such a short time. The subtitles are great, they really convey the mix of awe & horror these folks must have felt seeing nature go completely haywire
Multiple times. The water didn't even go out after the first wave. Then another taller wave trumped the last one. Crazy! If this happened on the eastern seaboard usa so many people would die from wanting to watch it, not realizing how tall the next waves will be.
This is recommended because it was 10 years ago that it happened in this same month, people have been searching this so it’s been getting attention and algorithm picked it up.
Unbelievable footage! The water slowly and relatively calmly creeps in with enormous pull force. It's scary to watch all the destruction and with what ease it carries big boats and entire houses.
I’ve watched a hundred of these videos and it’s still gut wrenching to watch and think of what the Japanese people went through and how terrifying that all must have been. The one man kept yelling, “it’s the end.” At that point you had no idea when and if it was going to stop and recede. I can’t imagine how hard that could have been to watch everything to have get destroyed.
It's not till the end when he swings the camera around to look at the whole town behind those walls being washed away that you really understand what he's so upset about.
My wife was in Japan and I was in Switzerland…. She called me and said that a earthquake happened, I just said “ we’ll be careful and call me back “… then less than 1h after I saw the news and I call back my wife with tears in my mouth. Hopefully she was in a safe place but she wanted to stay in Japan to help ( she is a nurse). She left Japan in may and we stayed in Switzerland for 12 years. Now we are back in Japan with 3 kids and we hope to never have to go trough it again in our life
It such a sad part of Japan's history. So many lives lost but the school children that were told to stay in the class room and all 75 died was the saddest. There were also some great rescues too.
@@YONIGUNIookawa elementary school!! Also the students weren’t instructed to stay in the classroom. They were all outside, with plenty of time to escape. But the fucking teachers waited 50 damn minutes until they finally started evacuating, but it was far too late. They got washed away in the process. Search about it cuz it’s pretty messed up. turned into a pretty big lawsuit too
That's a really strong wall when it can hold what looks like >10m of static and dynamic water pressure. I'm genuinely impressed by Japanese authorities who manage to build this infrastructure to protect a small town. This relatively thin wall managed to dam up the paciffic ocean. I'm sure this gave several people more time to escape.
Yeah, though the idiots that think "oh I gotta grab all my stuff" were probably the ones you see drive by just seconds/minutes before the water goes over the wall. Either that or some officials but still, it's stupid like if that wall was defective in any 1 spot or the water raised any quicker they would have been dead.
Yea tsunamis have happened there in the past but it’s not super common. Typhoons are. They’re much more organized and built say if the same thing happened in Florida
It is amazing to think that wall held back the pacific ocean, as well as the massive underground water tunnels in tokyo, I believe I watched or read something that they've re-engineered the embankments. They're not going to let this type of devastation happen twice, thats for sure!
I just hang out with my friend Smelly Bob. Water is supernaturally repelled by his mere presence in some godforsaken way. I shit you not! He has his uses...
I think it likes to give us reminders from time to time about HAARP and what not, anything to keep us distracted from Prince Andrew and Jeffry Epstein...... oh no wait they did the Oprah interview to distract from that didn’t they? oops lol
It is something I will never forget. I hope you all managed to rebuild your homes and businesses. I hope also that you are living happy lives. With love for all those who lost their lives. Xx
I always thought a tsunami would look so different. Large waves coming toward the shore, but this is even scarier. It seems so calm till it's pretty much too late.
i remember the tsunami that happened in 2003/2004 after the Sumatran-Andaman earthquake - i'm Australian so i wasn't affected, but i remember reading a story about one young girl who noticed the water receding dramatically and managed to get her loved ones to evacuate in time.
@@elfinvale this is actually how a lot of native people who are on islands know to get to higher ground. If the water recedes a certain amount they head inland for higher ground. Learned that from my cultural anthropology class.
They even had a breakwater line, seawall and a warning system. Imagine if this hit a country like the Philippines. The level of destruction would be devastating 😰
A tsunami hit our country in 2004, on the day I was born. We had no sort of warning systems or breakwall whatsoever. A few minutes right after I was born, half of our country was destroyed
Cinematic Tsunamis don’t even do this slow beast any justice. The “oh wait a minute we need to leave” moments that a tsunami have are scary. didn’t even look like anything at first.
I’ve seen many bits of footage of Tsunamis over the years but this has to be the most visual representation of the sheer scale of one that I’ve ever seen. Astonishing.
It was a huge disaster for Japan. There was a lot of footage captured from all over the country. Hopefully it'll be a long time before they have another one.
@@aeroripper Ah yes. I heard Japan just just had an earthquake. I was waiting for the new episode of Attack on Titan. I hope they're OK. Life over a TV series for sure.
@@frederikzinn5427 I mean it was kind of bad yeah, but honestly I was expecting a 20-30 foot wall of water to come in at like 50 mph+ based on how they discribe them.. This just seemed like, "ehhh lame". A simple wall is all you need or just travel up 30 feet
You know what's worse than a wave? Seemingly endless ionising radiation that will be around for thousands of years that is now polluting the Japanese coastline.
Does yer heart also go out to the 80 90 y.o.'s Japanese men who did all those unspeakable shit to others in Asia including the brits, the dutch, the aussies and are now retiring comfortably sleeping in a warm bed because they have never been punished for crimes against humanity? I sure don't feel for these bastards and I hope the tsunami is Mutter Nature's way of bringing these criminals to justice.
We have recovered now. It’s 10 years ago. Most people affected by this have moved on from this. Yes many died. But many didn’t die either and bounced back. My uncle’s home for example entire first floor was flooded because of Tsunami that flooded the river and back flowed the surrounding areas. But his home was not crushed luckily. He bounced back within a year and he was lucky. The areas that crushed are not like before but all cleaned up and new buildings already built. The Japanese government built huge walls spent billions of tax payers money and locals have mixed feelings about that as we can’t see the ocean like before in these Tsunami regions. But we have recovered long ago.
Tsunami is not a wave, but a column of water under pressure in movement. It can be just a few centimeters over the water surface but with tons of power. A fact of density
@@pepeperez2774 Tsunami is a wave tho. Even if it doesnt nescessary look like a wave it is a wave of water. Look at this footage and tell me that isnt a huge wave czcams.com/video/Z-2khcTHIgs/video.html At 2:20
@@AhmedAli-dt9bl We aren’t into Islam and Allah etc. We Japanese people have Shintoism and our god isn’t same as your god. We love pork. Free range ones the best from south of Japan. In fact those who eat these special free range pork, fish and seafood, and varieties of vegetables live the longest on earth. My Japanese grandmother lived till nearly 110. You guys are too much into such archaic thinking that pig is a dirty being, no such thing. Pigs are among the cleanest animal much more than cows that’s for sure. But free range, they’re roaming freely on green pastures in south of Japan. Yep we aren’t ever going to agree on Allah or treating women as second class citizens or allow multiple wives. That’s illegal actually here. We are Shintoism based society.
I was in Kamaishi in December 2011, and stayed with a family who lived very close to here near Unosumai (a few miles to the north). Every day we went into Kamaishi and passed through this area. The seawall was mostly gone, just giant broken chunks of concrete. I asked my friend about the tsunami, and he said that the people of Ryoishi talked about the tsunami in terms of “a bathtub filling up and overflowing”. This video shows exactly that, I can see why they made that (accurate) comparison. The damage to the town went all the way back, about 1/2 mile inland, to this curve in the highway (45). Only the higher areas of Ryoishi were spared. Since my last visit in 2015, they raised the ground level of the entire town by 10 meters (it ramps down right before it gets to the harbor). But in 2011, the roads had been destroyed and had many temporary 1-lane repairs... I’ve never seen anything like the destruction in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. I lived through Hurricane Katrina, which was horrific, but the destruction in places like Ryoishi here was total. Videos, photos, and words just cannot fully convey what happened here. I’ll add, these were also the nicest people I’ve ever met. Just amazing.
+Rocket Scientist 🙏 Thank you for sharing your experiences and the post-tsunami details. Even before when I watched this video prior to the English subtitles, it was plain that these were good people who were determined to look out for one another. Yours truly, Brain Surgeon 🪛👩🏼⚕️🩺
ive seen multiple videos of the earthquake and tsunami and it just terrifies me to imagine to have been there i cant imagine how the ppl who actually went thru this felt such a horrible event God bless Japan
In less than 6 minutes everything you've owned, all the places you made memories, went to school, perhaps met your first love...Gone. I can only hope everybody heeded the alarm in time and got to higher ground in time.
@@Anomaly.Filmworks you'll never understand the pain of seeing everything you made during your entire life get destroyed in seconds unless you suffer through it. You probably take everything you have in life for granted.
If I'd live in Japan, I wouldn't do it in a house by the sea shore... The entire world know about tsunamis from Japan, you'd think they would stop building vulnerable houses(everything owned, memories etc) right there near the water.
These pictures are a testament to the destructive power of nature, but also to the unshakable strength and hope of people. I pray for all who were affected by this terrible event and hope they have found comfort and healing.
When I first watched the full documentary it gave me so much anxiety I cried but I wanted to finish watching the documentary to understand how mother nature works and to learn from it. I cried for the people that couldn't escape this and for those whom couldn't sleep for there safety of what could come next.
why cry? this happened in Japan, a country so arrogant that they cancel out anything foreign and think theyre the best at everything; no reason to feel sorry for a hostile population like that. let them deal with it on their own.
@@gradeyundery4939 hahaha I wouldn't qualify for drafting, I'm old jumped that g u n I feel sorry for the young people on that hope it don't happen in my life time or your lifetime..... scary.
@@wubblebubbleball5433 We can take his comment as a different way of thinking about "losing everything we worked for". If we accept that what we borrowed has been taken back, it will hurt less. The comment doesn't have to mean that there must be an alternative and humans are bad so they deserve this.
The 3 meter announcement was wrong, and part of the problem - probably a lot of people heard "3 meters" and weren't too worried. Then when the actual wave turned out to be much bigger.... some of the people who had warning hadn't run far enough to get away from what hit the coast. It was 14 meters at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Same Tsunami event. Something I didn't see people try to do that puzzles me - I'd think that, the moment you feel an earthquake like that, with all those boats around.... why not grab one and head straight out to sea? If you can get out to deep water fast enough, the tsunami will pass under you as a not very high, not dangerous swell rather than the towering dangerous wave it becomes as the shallows lift it up.
I was 400 miles away from Kamaishi City. It was an amazingly long earthquake, just kept going. I was far from the coast thankfully. Everyone was glued to the TV.
This is amazing footage and shows how important it is to know what a tsunami is actually like. It's less a "tidal wave" and more a giant ripple in the ocean from the energy that created it.
I never really understood a tsumani until I saw the videos of the Japanese tsunami. It was not a traditional wave, but massive and repeated surges of water. Even 12 years later it is terrifying to witness.
The anxiety in dudes voice😩 I can’t even imagine what it’s like to witness in person. As someone stated before, With all the advancements of mankind & his technology we don’t stand a chance against Mother Nature.
If you pay attention to the road at the bottom of the frame in the beginning of the video. You will see a little white truck driving towards the water just before the tsunami hits. A few minutes later you can see that same truck being swept back down the road by the tsunami as it starts to crest over the sea wall. I hope the driver survived but nature is rarely so kind.
I can’t believe that it happened almost 12 years ago when I was living there. So much destruction and human losses. It just like happened yesterday to me ❤love from USA
I was 18 when this happened. I remember sitting in bed and crying so much you'd think I lost a loved one to the disaster. I had this feeling of love and empathy for those souls that awoke that morning not knowing they'll be gone in the most horrid way later that day. I remember calling my cousin and crying so much and wondering why the world is so unfair. RIP to the souls. Be kind to the planet and it'll be kind to us in return. Be safe ♥️
It has nothing to do with being kind to the planet. It’s caused by earthquake in the sea, tectonic plates collide with each other deep underneath the seabeds, not too far from the coast of other side of Japan. This isn’t caused by global warming or anything. And we get this every century or every 200 years or so. It’s part of earth development, tectonic plates move. It’s natural occurrence hence it’s called natural disaster. Nothing to do with being kind to earth.
the most horrid thing is that they had multiple sea walls and break walls and everything still got swept away. it's hard to imagine how much worse things would have been without those walls when everything was swept away anyway
I think it's coz of those walls the impact of the waves was lessened but still managed to do a lot of damage.. but those walls did buy some time for the people.
If you know Japanese men, this the scariest they can get, while saying “this is HELL ! HELL ! HELL ! “ he still went on to say “This is AMAZING ! “ but he said it in FEAR, so I’m sure many got “ lost in translation “
With the devastating earthquake in Turkey, my deepest condolences to everyone in Japan on this March 11, be at peace and mourn for what's lost but live for what's most important.
It's not just about the Hight of a wave, it's also the Length of a wave. You can see how they're long waves they way they flow in and out, so much power.
I've seen enough of these to know what was going to happen but at first, I reacted like you. The interesting thing here is that this guy knew it was going to be a huge tsunami just by looking at what was happening out in the ocean. That shows a lot of experience with the sea and tsunamis.
@@m0r73n Yes ' it was a thin wall. Judging from the size of the cars driving on the road next to it, l figure wall is about 25-30 feet or (7 to 9 meters tall). That's about the height of buildings at the Mall shopping center. Thats alot of pressure and Alot 'of water. I can't help feel bad for all those who lost family, friends, pets and properties 😫
@@gehtnix16 I suppose that makes sense, but I still fail to see how you could get that sort of funnel effect in something as vast as the ocean where the total volume is spread so vastly. I always assumed it was the physical raising of the sea level that contributed to the height of a tsunami, not the influence of coves/mountains.
It must be heartbreaking to see that coming in, and right before your eyes it takes everything, and you would never feel more powerless in your entire life.
We never forget that. When I was 24 years old in Tokyo for work, it came to Japan very huge earthquake. Many people is died, around 700 people is died by earthquake, 15000 people is died by TSUNAMI. Please remember this movie, you MUST go to top of mountain or 3F higher floor when you get a huge earthquake. Please remember. Please save your life.
I remember watching all about this on TV. It was so scary! The way the wave was as far as you could see across both ways, just one wave! Then the extreme flooding!!!
I can’t believe that it’s been 10 years since this disaster occurred, I was still in elementary school when I saw this on national news, my condolences to the Japanese community.
I was on a college oceanography class shortly year after this happened, we watched SO much footage! It was horrifying! But it was the best example we've really ever had of a modern day tsunami.
Thats why i love the Japanese people, even in the face of danger they see how cool it is when sht gets wracked. Thats why they always bounce back stronger.
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Anyone else got this randomly recommended 8 years later?
Literally minutes ago. See you in 2029
Yup. Just now. How did it go from cooking videos to this?
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This is important. People often think a tsunami is a big wave, when acctually is like a flooding, you can't really see it coming until is too late.
From my understanding, its a wave when the sea level doesn't have a cliff of a kind. Without a cliff of a kind, the water basically has a ramp to build up on.
@@aksmex2576 it's more like a change in the altitude of the ocean. If you imagine a line on one side is sea level the other is 3m higher, all the water from the higher side will move towards the lower side creating a wave of change in altitude.
It depends on the magnitude of the earthquake on the sea floor and how close it is to the land. The waves can be tremendously high! 20 meters!
isnt that obvious after watching the video?
Yes.. it's obvious... but it's a nice comment
Thanks for the English subtitles. I often wondered what was actually being said. Much love for the fortitude of the Japanese people!
Translating the man's comments for us English speakers really helps us understand what was going through the villager's minds. Fear, awe, amazement, safety of others, resolution of what was to be all pour out of this man's heart, and yet he keeps a clear head to be ready to react to further danger.
One can only imagine the sense of panic and grief once the waters receded and the task of locating family and friends began. Then multiply this by tens or hundreds of thousands of people. He was correct in that they were experiencing a living hell. My heart still hurts for the Japanese affected by this awful disaster.
The guy wouldn't shut up. A very cartoonish/Godzilla like reaction.
Remember that the Lord Jesus Christ died on a cross for you because He loves you so much. He then rose up from the dead three days later
The Ten Commandments are called the moral law, (most of us are lying thieving blasphemous adulterer at heart and deserve hell) you and I broke the law, Jesus paid the fine. That’s what happened on that cross.
By believing that Jesus died on the cross and rose up from the dead 3 days later and not just confessing your sin, but also repenting of all sin you have done and putting all your trust in Him in prayer, He will grant you everlasting life as a free Gift.
@@sstills951 I’ll tell you what, I wouldn’t be anywhere near as calm as he was.
I did think he kinda sounded like long johnson nononono cat.
@@sstills951 Criticizing him for sounding too dramatic?
Even for a troll, that's preposterous l.
Hysterically screaming for four straight minutes until he lost his voice wouldn't have been an unrealistic reaction to witnessing this happen to your home town. He just saw his town and probably his own livelihood (he mentions his boat) completely destroyed, isn't sure if the cliff they're on will be undermined and collapse, knows people he knows have drowned, wonders aloud about the safety of the school children.
Dramatic?
Hush, troll.
You'll call the thunder down on your own head.
@@melissasaint3283 To be honest, this Man reacted harmlessly... I can't imagine how I would have reacted if my village was wiped out
Hearing the word "Tsunami is coming" must be so terrifying.
Ha Shukla ji
@@saketchourasia7191 What a coincidence bro!.
One in ten of thousands.
Yeah,!! 🙁🙁
@@sauravshukla7391 yes bro
Not if you are at a save spot already
For all those watching this now... look up Miki Endo. Tragic and heroic story.. she stayed at he post doing the announcements until the 3 story building she was in was engulfed.. she never left her post even though she could see the water coming towards her. She was found almost a month later washed up on a beach. She's credited as saving thousands.
:(((((
Rip Miki endo
Wow... Amazing dedication
@@alisonestill9178 and selfless sacrifice 🙏
I did not know abut her at all....Thank you.
It’s hard to believe this was twelve years ago now, I remember the day this happened pretty vividly. RIP to those that perished and much respect for Japan and it’s people to recover so well!
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Wow, thank you for filming this Tsunami. I live in Western Australia which is quite flat for the most part. I had not realised how harmless looking a Tsunami could look from a distance, and it didn’t occur to me that such a high barrier wall could so easily be breached. Very sobering. Thank you again for educating me. Best wishes to you and your family.
I'm in WA too. This video just popped up, so I watched it.
Very sad. 😢
Western Australia tsunami could happen in past it has I believe that's wat caused the hills ridge
It was barely a tsunami.
I honestly didn't realize a tsunami could be so subtle while being just as destructive. I'd always thought of them as a huge wave
It is a huge wave. It’s just not the tall vertical wall as portrayed in movies.
It is am absolutely huge wave its just mostly under water. The entire ocean is lifting up essentially
@@JMRabil675 That's what this looks like and I think that might be scarier than the 'traditional' tsunami wave
@@NoName5589 Right, it looks worse. The monstrous volume of water. Eerie how it slid in over the whole harbour. Thankful they had a warning system. It could have been at night.
If you have never experienced the power of the flooding Missouri or Mississippi Rivers, I imagine it is like that except much higher and with more power. Poor folks that did not get out in time.
“When you see the cheetah running with the gazelle, you run with them.”
That was something I heard an old man say in a newscast of the tsunami. He said that when he saw animals that usually eat each other running up the mountain together, he knew something was wrong.
He said he saw that a while before the tsunami hit and that’s what saved him. He ran up the mountain.
There's cheetah and gazelle in Japan?
@@niklasmorningstar4301 Nope. But he was making the point that when animals that eat each other are running together, you run.
😳Wow, just visualizing that is terrifying
@@Gator-fromOZ x
wow thats actually really cool
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形は変わってしまうけど、また新たな時代を築いてきた先祖代々の思いを大切にして、これからに繋いでいきたいと、思います。
I was living near Hachinohe the day of the earthquake. I thought the ground was going to open up. I volunteered and did cleanup afterwards along the coast and it was unreal like a horror movie. We didn't have power for over a week, so I put my food in the snow. I had my huge American BBQ grill so I cooked meat for my neighbors and bonded because we were all together in this. I can't wait to move back. I wish more Americans shared the Japanese culture because they are simply amazing!!
Америка не помогает ! А всё уничтожает многие этого не понимают !
I can’t even imagine how horrifying it would be to See your entire village where you spend most of your life in being destroyed by a huge wave...
Imagine titans invading your whole town🙄
Not like it was the first tsunami in Japanese history. People are just dumb. Should have built a larger harbor wall. Can't fix stupid
They should have used one punch man to rebound the waves 🙄
@some random person they did lol
Almighty push
The person who took the video doesn't say "amazing".
He says "The damage is too bad".
But it describes it pretty well. Dreadful and terrible. But in a weird also amazing...
@@alessandrok.9684 "Unbelievable" would be more accurate, I guess.
3:48
@@PartyhatRS Last time They posted was 4 years ago i dont think they are going to fix a subtitle in a video from 8 years ago.
@@PartyhatRS They can't. It's edited onto the video itself.
Thanks for the translation! I've seen the full version of it many times, but was never sure his exact words. That day still resonates, the loss and displacement and altered lives of so many. God bless!
*_40 meters/ 130 feet high_*
The highest recorded waves anywhere in Japan that day.
My heart still hurts.
We all living the same life if we got recommended this 8 years later
CZcams algorithm is getting weirder 😂
@@nyeh663 why though, this video might be uploaded in 2013, but was recorded on march 11 2011, it's the 10 year anniversary. not so strange at all!
Stop. Say, something, anything at all original. The whole "we watch at the same time" shtick is getting old.
@@Happyfoam-lw3yt
-Faith restored in humanity
-Wrecked/dead/ded/dying
-was this filmed with a potato?
-last time I was this early...
-Stop saying who is here, we never left.
-in the weird part of CZcams again
-I'm not crying, you're crying
-she/he/they found their CZcams password
-who is watching in 'current year'
- 'something else' brought me here
- saaaaaaame
- nobody:
Not a single soul:
Me: something unfunny nobody cared to know
I could go on...and on...and on..
80% of people are clones, social media comments reflect that. Accept that, lower your expectations and you won't be bothered by them haha
@@Happyfoam-lw3yt I honestly didn't think anyone else had said that. I don't go on CZcams often and I was just commenting what I truly thought. But I guess I can see how many people would say that though
Whenever the water gets sucked out of the harbor to the sea.... RUNNNN!
Looks like you will be running twice a day.
@@Leo-eb1wl 😂😂
@@Leo-eb1wl 🤣🤣
@@Leo-eb1wl 😂🤣☠
@@mikiplusdevideos4915 i didn't get his joke
thank you for translating. the horror will ever stay too real with natural catastrophes. may those who lost their lives and loved ones be in peace.
I wonder if that person driving the white truck at 4:30 lived, you can see that same truck floating back by at 8:48.
Crazy how this went from normal to water well over the top of the tallest structure within minutes
The most staggering thing about this is it goes from absolutely nothing to everythings fucked in about 4 and a half minutes.
Hello ? Are you a boy ?
@@zaryab1111 *Bonk* , Go to horny jail.
I like GTA too😌
@@zaryab1111 Why does it matter if they are or not? Sounds a bit predatory. Could get yourself into some serious trouble if you are one.
Че лодки в море не угнали?
It's not all CGI like in the movies, but it's actually scarier in real life.
No shit it's not cgi 💀
Yes it is, it's relentless, as sea level keeps increasing more and more you realize there's nothing that can stop it. That's the essence of nightmare.
@@Gabriel-jg5wh I think he ment the tsunami didn't look anything like how they make it appear with cgi in movies. Like a huge wave crashing into skyscrapers.
@@MrMazvaz these tsunamis here are "small" if u gonna start even comparing it with the movies. Movie ones like what we see example San andreas, it's apocalypse asteroid level of tsunami, it ain't something you will see in your lifetime they're unbelievably rare but it's definetely possible , tsunami's are a series of waves that can have long distance apart like even hours behind the first wave, and these waves can be long up tp 100Km.
@@Gabriel-jg5wh I know, but its still a tsunami and its still terrifying even though its regarded as small. It just puts things in perspective, how helpless we are when nature decides to fuck shit up.
What’s always most terrifying to me when I watch these videos of the 2011 Japan tsunami are that almost every one of these towns had the infrastructure to prevent even a fairly large tsunami from destroying the whole town. The Pacific Northwest of the US is also prone to receiving mega-tsunamis but has none of this infrastructure. I can’t even imagine the devastation we’re going to experience in the PNW when the big one hits. We have no protection, the US will only (maybe) invest in the infrastructure after it happens
We would be better without the entire west coast
Gonna be cool to see
@@whyguy3651 based
@@whyguy3651 spoken like a cousin fucker 😂
Too many people don't want their views spoiled.
What's scary is how often you'll hear those sirens but this time was real, it was deadly, and the most disasterous ever. I think that's why these sirens have become so eerie, they really only signify mass destruction.
Even more scary that it only took about 3 mins from the alarm to the water coming in.
Another CZcams recommended that is actually worth watching.
Неожиданно, согласна
How CZcams used to be
Same
Its definitely nothing like how movies portrays tsunami.
Movies make people delusional
Yeah, true and that's why the real one is so deadly.
No shit
@&; it was 3 meters. Thats taller than most living quarters in Japan. It only looks the way it does because they're safe and on high ground. If you saw it face first, it would be 3 or 4 of yourselves combined in height.
@@Elseldom based
It's incomprehensible just how much water was displaced & pushed inland in such a short time. The subtitles are great, they really convey the mix of awe & horror these folks must have felt seeing nature go completely haywire
It's petrifying how slow it begins and looks pretty innocent and then it just annihilates EVERYTHING in its path.
I love it for all the same reasons except that in today's day it's got to be systemic racism that caused this Plus climate change deniers
When they use the term evacuate I said I would be saying EVERYBODY RUN
Multiple times. The water didn't even go out after the first wave. Then another taller wave trumped the last one. Crazy! If this happened on the eastern seaboard usa so many people would die from wanting to watch it, not realizing how tall the next waves will be.
@@paulwilliams8555 how the actual fuck does systemic racism have anything to do with earthquakes and the resulting tsunami
@@rileymannion5301 because yes
This is recommended because it was 10 years ago that it happened in this same month, people have been searching this so it’s been getting attention and algorithm picked it up.
Thanks.
Yeah, same thing around 9/11, terrifying videos recommended
Unbelievable footage! The water slowly and relatively calmly creeps in with enormous pull force. It's scary to watch all the destruction and with what ease it carries big boats and entire houses.
I’ve watched a hundred of these videos and it’s still gut wrenching to watch and think of what the Japanese people went through and how terrifying that all must have been. The one man kept yelling, “it’s the end.” At that point you had no idea when and if it was going to stop and recede. I can’t imagine how hard that could have been to watch everything to have get destroyed.
Er, try not to forget that foreigners live in Japan, too. That's a day I will never forget.
It's not till the end when he swings the camera around to look at the whole town behind those walls being washed away that you really understand what he's so upset about.
@Jannis Joplin xd
@Jannis Joplin h
@Jannis Joplin sarcasm is wasted on the ineptitude of yourself
His other job is football announcer
1:50 2 ppl choose to drive straight into their own death. Smart.....
Me: it’s not that big
Tsunami: goes over the wall.
Me: oh never mind
Do you always leave comments as imaginary conversations?
@@albe7292 Do you always leave comments as a sarcastic asshole
Did you say that to get a reaction , you are one crazy stupid human being. Satisfied now.
The fact that there were vehicles driving on that road not too soon before that is 😱
Nekisha C. Guity you can see a white pickup passed the road and later being dragged by the water
My wife was in Japan and I was in Switzerland…. She called me and said that a earthquake happened, I just said “ we’ll be careful and call me back “… then less than 1h after I saw the news and I call back my wife with tears in my mouth.
Hopefully she was in a safe place but she wanted to stay in Japan to help ( she is a nurse).
She left Japan in may and we stayed in Switzerland for 12 years. Now we are back in Japan with 3 kids and we hope to never have to go trough it again in our life
Японцы едят дельфинов а Швейцарцы котов.Это вам за грехи ваши
It such a sad part of Japan's history. So many lives lost but the school children that were told to stay in the class room and all 75 died was the saddest. There were also some great rescues too.
that's incredibly sad to hear we're that dumb
Could you tell me the name of the tragedy so I can look it up on youtube?
@@YONIGUNIookawa elementary school!! Also the students weren’t instructed to stay in the classroom. They were all outside, with plenty of time to escape. But the fucking teachers waited 50 damn minutes until they finally started evacuating, but it was far too late. They got washed away in the process. Search about it cuz it’s pretty messed up. turned into a pretty big lawsuit too
That's a really strong wall when it can hold what looks like >10m of static and dynamic water pressure.
I'm genuinely impressed by Japanese authorities who manage to build this infrastructure to protect a small town.
This relatively thin wall managed to dam up the paciffic ocean. I'm sure this gave several people more time to escape.
Yeah, though the idiots that think "oh I gotta grab all my stuff" were probably the ones you see drive by just seconds/minutes before the water goes over the wall. Either that or some officials but still, it's stupid like if that wall was defective in any 1 spot or the water raised any quicker they would have been dead.
Yea tsunamis have happened there in the past but it’s not super common. Typhoons are. They’re much more organized and built say if the same thing happened in Florida
It is amazing to think that wall held back the pacific ocean, as well as the massive underground water tunnels in tokyo, I believe I watched or read something that they've re-engineered the embankments. They're not going to let this type of devastation happen twice, thats for sure!
That wall looks to be 18-24ft high looks like it could use another 10-12ft added....
I just hang out with my friend Smelly Bob. Water is supernaturally repelled by his mere presence in some godforsaken way. I shit you not! He has his uses...
Sometimes, CZcams algorithm is just like that weird friend who enjoy to share random scary things.
Absolutely! 🤣
I think it likes to give us reminders from time to time about HAARP and what not, anything to keep us distracted from Prince Andrew and Jeffry Epstein...... oh no wait they did the Oprah interview to distract from that didn’t they? oops lol
That is so true
😄😄
@@Bennybey123 aq
It is something I will never forget. I hope you all managed to rebuild your homes and businesses. I hope also that you are living happy lives. With love for all those who lost their lives. Xx
Thank you for posting this. It is good to understand that you cannot underestimate a surge of 🌊.
I always thought a tsunami would look so different. Large waves coming toward the shore, but this is even scarier. It seems so calm till it's pretty much too late.
i remember the tsunami that happened in 2003/2004 after the Sumatran-Andaman earthquake - i'm Australian so i wasn't affected, but i remember reading a story about one young girl who noticed the water receding dramatically and managed to get her loved ones to evacuate in time.
ikr, u wouldnt realized 'till it's suddenly there
Me too. I'm glad I saw this. I am surrounded by the ocean!
@@elfinvale this is actually how a lot of native people who are on islands know to get to higher ground. If the water recedes a certain amount they head inland for higher ground. Learned that from my cultural anthropology class.
...it will be the Same with SARS-COV2...and people already think it is over...
They even had a breakwater line, seawall and a warning system. Imagine if this hit a country like the Philippines. The level of destruction would be devastating 😰
Philipines will be sunk forever
A tsunami hit our country in 2004, on the day I was born. We had no sort of warning systems or breakwall whatsoever. A few minutes right after I was born, half of our country was destroyed
Yes it happened in 2004 and thousands of people died in India, Philippines and other south east countries.
I dont remember a tsunami hitting the Philippines in 2004. Or maybe a small one.
Or Louisiana!!!!!
Cinematic Tsunamis don’t even do this slow beast any justice. The “oh wait a minute we need to leave” moments that a tsunami have are scary. didn’t even look like anything at first.
I’ve seen many bits of footage of Tsunamis over the years but this has to be the most visual representation of the sheer scale of one that I’ve ever seen. Astonishing.
It was a huge disaster for Japan. There was a lot of footage captured from all over the country. Hopefully it'll be a long time before they have another one.
Honestly this was way way WAY less intense than I expected
@@locklear308 Then you might not have realized what you have seen...
@@aeroripper Ah yes. I heard Japan just just had an earthquake. I was waiting for the new episode of Attack on Titan. I hope they're OK. Life over a TV series for sure.
@@frederikzinn5427 I mean it was kind of bad yeah, but honestly I was expecting a 20-30 foot wall of water to come in at like 50 mph+ based on how they discribe them.. This just seemed like, "ehhh lame". A simple wall is all you need or just travel up 30 feet
Don't judge a book by it's cover, Such a gentle wave but wipe away everything in less than 5 min.. Unbelievable power..
Imagine power of creater 👆🏻
except the breakwaters, the boats and the cliff. and the cameraman.
1m cubed of water weighs 1 tonne. Puts into perspective how powerful water is.
@@Jammydodgers41And its only light GASES Hydrogen & Oxygen combination!!!!!! It means if you join forces with others your power multiplies
You know what's worse than a wave? Seemingly endless ionising radiation that will be around for thousands of years that is now polluting the Japanese coastline.
As a expert in Japanese language I can confirm this was done by none other than there arch nemesis, the Whale and dolphin.
My heart goes to all the people who lost everything in this horrific event :( I am amazed I have witnessed so many huge events in my short lifetime.
Does yer heart also go out to the 80 90 y.o.'s Japanese men who did all those unspeakable shit to others in Asia including the brits, the dutch, the aussies and are now retiring comfortably sleeping in a warm bed because they have never been punished for crimes against humanity? I sure don't feel for these bastards and I hope the tsunami is Mutter Nature's way of bringing these criminals to justice.
Swept them out to sea❗
The Bible is true. When you see these things..............
Unfortunately we will have to witness much more in the future
We have recovered now. It’s 10 years ago. Most people affected by this have moved on from this. Yes many died. But many didn’t die either and bounced back. My uncle’s home for example entire first floor was flooded because of Tsunami that flooded the river and back flowed the surrounding areas. But his home was not crushed luckily. He bounced back within a year and he was lucky. The areas that crushed are not like before but all cleaned up and new buildings already built. The Japanese government built huge walls spent billions of tax payers money and locals have mixed feelings about that as we can’t see the ocean like before in these Tsunami regions. But we have recovered long ago.
Water is so powerful and devastating. The whole scenario is quite surreal.
The water will always reclaim the land. We're merely pimples.
It really is tho! Something we take for granted.
Never build so Close to the sea
Water can flow, or it can crush. Bruce Lee.
A 30 foot high concrete wall. Submerged 10 feet under sea level. Yeah
At the begining i was like, that is nothing. Was expecting a wave or something, but it just got worse and worse every minute. Terrible
Stop scaring me !!
Big wave comes only in movies hahah
Tsunami is not a wave, but a column of water under pressure in movement. It can be just a few centimeters over the water surface but with tons of power. A fact of density
@@pepeperez2774 Tsunami is a wave tho.
Even if it doesnt nescessary look like a wave it is a wave of water.
Look at this footage and tell me that isnt a huge wave czcams.com/video/Z-2khcTHIgs/video.html
At 2:20
Nr 1 of that video also shows how huge the wave is. Must be waves from around 10 to 20 meter high.
Scary as fuck .
10 anos se passaram desde a tragédia e eu ainda me impressiono com essas imagens.
When this happened my heart broke for my Japanese friends and their families. I know how strong Japan is from watching how fast they rebuilt!!
توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس والقلوب
Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the souls and hearts😁🥰
@@AhmedAli-dt9bl sorry. I like my bacon too much!
@@AhmedAli-dt9bl We aren’t into Islam and Allah etc. We Japanese people have Shintoism and our god isn’t same as your god. We love pork. Free range ones the best from south of Japan. In fact those who eat these special free range pork, fish and seafood, and varieties of vegetables live the longest on earth. My Japanese grandmother lived till nearly 110. You guys are too much into such archaic thinking that pig is a dirty being, no such thing. Pigs are among the cleanest animal much more than cows that’s for sure. But free range, they’re roaming freely on green pastures in south of Japan. Yep we aren’t ever going to agree on Allah or treating women as second class citizens or allow multiple wives. That’s illegal actually here. We are Shintoism based society.
I was in Kamaishi in December 2011, and stayed with a family who lived very close to here near Unosumai (a few miles to the north). Every day we went into Kamaishi and passed through this area. The seawall was mostly gone, just giant broken chunks of concrete. I asked my friend about the tsunami, and he said that the people of Ryoishi talked about the tsunami in terms of “a bathtub filling up and overflowing”. This video shows exactly that, I can see why they made that (accurate) comparison.
The damage to the town went all the way back, about 1/2 mile inland, to this curve in the highway (45). Only the higher areas of Ryoishi were spared.
Since my last visit in 2015, they raised the ground level of the entire town by 10 meters (it ramps down right before it gets to the harbor). But in 2011, the roads had been destroyed and had many temporary 1-lane repairs... I’ve never seen anything like the destruction in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. I lived through Hurricane Katrina, which was horrific, but the destruction in places like Ryoishi here was total. Videos, photos, and words just cannot fully convey what happened here.
I’ll add, these were also the nicest people I’ve ever met. Just amazing.
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+Rocket Scientist 🙏
Thank you for sharing your experiences and the post-tsunami details.
Even before when I watched this video prior to the English subtitles, it was plain that these were good people who were determined to look out for one another.
Yours truly,
Brain Surgeon 🪛👩🏼⚕️🩺
😩🥺😢😭
Yes I also found the Japanese people extremely hospitable and a very proud honorable people.
Can't believe I've not seen this footage before. Absolutely mesmerising the destructive power of nature
But then after 7 years the CZcams algorithm struck...
I saw the unedited long form version... But then CZcams said no more versions with people dieing. So it got edited down.
@@Mac_Omegaly youtube hates the facts and the reality we live in
History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of man
@@unicornsteaks6769 Godzilla
ive seen multiple videos of the earthquake and tsunami and it just terrifies me to imagine to have been there i cant imagine how the ppl who actually went thru this felt such a horrible event God bless Japan
何度見ても心がえぐられます。
Unbelievable, it's not a big wave like I thought. Just keeps rising and rising. The power is amazing. I'd be scared to death.
Tsunami waves can be miles long a normal wave is a few metres, its the length of the wave that surprises people
No when announcement is made where is the question of death, this is only natural balance act, and known fact
It was a very big wave actually
You can see actual waves here czcams.com/video/3618dZoiaPE/video.html
Its a big wave actually but it come slowly in seconds
In less than 6 minutes everything you've owned, all the places you made memories, went to school, perhaps met your first love...Gone.
I can only hope everybody heeded the alarm in time and got to higher ground in time.
Dude it's not like they got nuked again... christ.
"Gone" ...no. just underwater.
@@Anomaly.Filmworks you'll never understand the pain of seeing everything you made during your entire life get destroyed in seconds unless you suffer through it. You probably take everything you have in life for granted.
If I'd live in Japan, I wouldn't do it in a house by the sea shore... The entire world know about tsunamis from Japan, you'd think they would stop building vulnerable houses(everything owned, memories etc) right there near the water.
@Katherine Yu lol I didn't write that, I just replied to that ass, we both have the same greenish blue dp, so you must've got confused
These pictures are a testament to the destructive power of nature, but also to the unshakable strength and hope of people. I pray for all who were affected by this terrible event and hope they have found comfort and healing.
When I first watched the full documentary it gave me so much anxiety I cried but I wanted to finish watching the documentary to understand how mother nature works and to learn from it. I cried for the people that couldn't escape this and for those whom couldn't sleep for there safety of what could come next.
why cry? this happened in Japan, a country so arrogant that they cancel out anything foreign and think theyre the best at everything; no reason to feel sorry for a hostile population like that. let them deal with it on their own.
i m not saying you are weak, but when ww3 breaks out, you are the first to be gone.
How brave of you
How very very brave...
You're the real hero here
@@gradeyundery4939 hahaha I wouldn't qualify for drafting, I'm old jumped that g u n I feel sorry for the young people on that hope it don't happen in my life time or your lifetime..... scary.
@@freddypizza3832 cheer up butter cup lifes to short to be bitter....
Thats so sad. Everything you worked for just washed away in swift terrifying moment
yeah you have only yourself with your life.
terrifying.
Everything that you took from nature only that things are being snatched.
The same is happening right now but in patagonia argentina, due to intentional fires
@@Saurabh_Kumar_Rai Do you have alternative suggestions? We’d love to hear them so we can “stop taking from nature”.
@@wubblebubbleball5433 We can take his comment as a different way of thinking about "losing everything we worked for". If we accept that what we borrowed has been taken back, it will hurt less. The comment doesn't have to mean that there must be an alternative and humans are bad so they deserve this.
There were literally cars crossing that road till the last few seconds it's truly scary how things can turn for the worst in a mere moments
At 4:59 there is a car transiting as the water is overcoming that wall...scary af
Not when you’re paying attention and not acting like a potato lol
Azərbaycanca danışan yoxmu
@@ournoiz5953 it's sad cause that car probably didn't survive 😕
In a documentary they said many felt safe having the tsunami wall protecting them.
Is there a person on this planet that can film something indescribable and awesome....with their mouth shut?
Amazing how the walls actually held back the sea and didn't break!
That man knew his history, and so knew what was coming.
3 meters i was like hm ok, probably should be fine, in like 5 minutes every building under the water, everythings gone
-My face :O :O.......
Oh nice you spoke about something else than color
The weight of trillions of tons of water continually coming can wash anything not stable like a mountain away
Yeah the difference between a 3 meter wave and a 3 meter tsunami is huge but also spectecular
I thought the same,3 meters that's nothing lol.
The 3 meter announcement was wrong, and part of the problem - probably a lot of people heard "3 meters" and weren't too worried. Then when the actual wave turned out to be much bigger.... some of the people who had warning hadn't run far enough to get away from what hit the coast.
It was 14 meters at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Same Tsunami event.
Something I didn't see people try to do that puzzles me - I'd think that, the moment you feel an earthquake like that, with all those boats around.... why not grab one and head straight out to sea? If you can get out to deep water fast enough, the tsunami will pass under you as a not very high, not dangerous swell rather than the towering dangerous wave it becomes as the shallows lift it up.
この動画初めて見ました。
高い防潮壁に囲まれて、一見大丈夫そうに見えた集落が一瞬で完全に海の底。
車で海沿いの道を走っていた人は驚いただろうな。
津波はてっきり高い波が迫ってくるものとばかり思っていましたが、これを見ると海がせり上がって溢れる感じですね。
地形や震源地からの距離などにもよると思いますが。
いずれにしろ自然の力は本当に強い。
この映像を教訓にして後世に活かすしかない。
Это у вас первый раз происходит?
I was 400 miles away from Kamaishi City. It was an amazingly long earthquake, just kept going. I was far from the coast thankfully. Everyone was glued to the TV.
Just when you think it's nearly over....it hits twice as hard
Yes, really impressive.
There were three waves the third was the biggest and fastest.
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@@rubytwoshoes1032 jojjjijiji no j
Can’t imagine what it would be like to see this in person. That’s nuts.
Just like watching your death approaching towards you...😨
Fuck that, I'm taking the car outta there!!
Heartbreaking.
Ur nuts
Какая чудная Марина , люди создали , природа разломала. Природа не враг , она просто есть . Жаль .
That’s tough to watch. Condolences to all those Japanese who lost someone in this tragedy
2021 hy bro
yes
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No earthquake damage ....9.1? That's weird.
@@caporetto90 no earthquake damage....do you see any? ...
I'm watching this video near the end of 2021, may the families of the victims be given abundant health and fortune..
warm hugs from Indonesia...
Salam indo 🙏
@@mangobing2717 anjay😂
@@tillend1115 aowkaowkw
Semoga kakek Sugiono baik2 saja 🤣
@@susisusanti8131 🔥
It must be so eerie when the water suddenly recedes, because you know it's coming back, and with a vengence.
2021: CZcams recommends watching
Ikr 😂
CZcams algorythm ....
Yeah, because they dont want you watching the Tsunami at our boarder.
So strange
10th anniversary
When you see how high that wall is at the start, and then see large boats going over it by then... its just terrifying
G BTU as the aaaaa
Stunning footage.
Just like witnessing some of your favorite rubber ducks washed away from an overfilled bathtub.
This is amazing footage and shows how important it is to know what a tsunami is actually like. It's less a "tidal wave" and more a giant ripple in the ocean from the energy that created it.
This was certainly not a dangerous event.
I never really understood a tsumani until I saw the videos of the Japanese tsunami. It was not a traditional wave, but massive and repeated surges of water. Even 12 years later it is terrifying to witness.
The anxiety in dudes voice😩 I can’t even imagine what it’s like to witness in person. As someone stated before, With all the advancements of mankind & his technology we don’t stand a chance against Mother Nature.
Anxiety?! This guys is enjoying himself😂he's saying "sugio" again and again which means "amazing"😂
@@KaranSharma-gv9bf In Japanese, "sugoi" is neutrality word. it's used for meaning both 'amazing things' or 'terrible things'.
@@KaranSharma-gv9bf
Well yea, You can hear nervousness in his voice.. I appreciate your input tho,
The only things I’m truly afraid are fire, water, wind electricity and my mother.
total of 1 gram of corona viruses have billions of humans on their knees now... imagine that..
I feel bad for the cars driving around. Ihope they made it
Probably not
If you pay attention to the road at the bottom of the frame in the beginning of the video. You will see a little white truck driving towards the water just before the tsunami hits. A few minutes later you can see that same truck being swept back down the road by the tsunami as it starts to crest over the sea wall. I hope the driver survived but nature is rarely so kind.
@@RedRumWraith
Damn, will look for that... I counted 28 seconds between his road passage until the seawall was crested. 😔
Whoever didnt listen to the warnings 🤷♂️ oh well
@@mah_sanity5635 it’s not oh well. Just because someone makes a mistake doesn’t mean they should die.
I can’t believe that it happened almost 12 years ago when I was living there. So much destruction and human losses. It just like happened yesterday to me ❤love from USA
I was 18 when this happened. I remember sitting in bed and crying so much you'd think I lost a loved one to the disaster. I had this feeling of love and empathy for those souls that awoke that morning not knowing they'll be gone in the most horrid way later that day. I remember calling my cousin and crying so much and wondering why the world is so unfair. RIP to the souls. Be kind to the planet and it'll be kind to us in return. Be safe ♥️
You are far too soft for life son. Crying at this over your TV?! At 18? Get a grip
The very day afterwards The Holy Spirit came to me saying "These things must happen but the end is not yet"
It has nothing to do with being kind to the planet. It’s caused by earthquake in the sea, tectonic plates collide with each other deep underneath the seabeds, not too far from the coast of other side of Japan. This isn’t caused by global warming or anything. And we get this every century or every 200 years or so. It’s part of earth development, tectonic plates move. It’s natural occurrence hence it’s called natural disaster. Nothing to do with being kind to earth.
the most horrid thing is that they had multiple sea walls and break walls and everything still got swept away. it's hard to imagine how much worse things would have been without those walls when everything was swept away anyway
I think it's coz of those walls the impact of the waves was lessened but still managed to do a lot of damage.. but those walls did buy some time for the people.
If you know Japanese men, this the scariest they can get, while saying “this is HELL ! HELL ! HELL ! “ he still went on to say “This is AMAZING ! “ but he said it in FEAR, so I’m sure many got “ lost in translation “
Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson
Amazing isn’t just a positive word
around 5:30 man in the video says “Jigoku da!” means it’s Hell!
@@SuperJuvent a man of culture i see
@@calort2150 🤣🤣
With the devastating earthquake in Turkey, my deepest condolences to everyone in Japan on this March 11, be at peace and mourn for what's lost but live for what's most important.
It's not just about the Hight of a wave, it's also the Length of a wave. You can see how they're long waves they way they flow in and out, so much power.
When it was starting to rise quickly over the wall , l said " oh ' this is serious now
+1 for funny comment
The fact that the wall was still standing is insane
I've seen enough of these to know what was going to happen but at first, I reacted like you. The interesting thing here is that this guy knew it was going to be a huge tsunami just by looking at what was happening out in the ocean. That shows a lot of experience with the sea and tsunamis.
@@m0r73n
Yes ' it was a thin wall.
Judging from the size of the cars driving on the road next to it,
l figure wall is about
25-30 feet or (7 to 9 meters tall).
That's about the height of buildings at the Mall shopping center. Thats alot of pressure and Alot 'of water. I can't help feel bad for all those who lost family, friends, pets and properties 😫
@Justin Iverson No, but you certainly are.
It’s like waiting for a monster that you know is coming. Terrifying.
Doesn't help them saying 3 meters when it's more like 30
Bari bari gusha gusha baki baki gokun
I think many people didn't expect anything serious.
@@ssss-df5qz yes ... 3 meters on see, but here the place has mountains on each side.
@@gehtnix16 I suppose that makes sense, but I still fail to see how you could get that sort of funnel effect in something as vast as the ocean where the total volume is spread so vastly.
I always assumed it was the physical raising of the sea level that contributed to the height of a tsunami, not the influence of coves/mountains.
Never has something so quick appeared to have happened so slow. Incredibly terrifying.
Lol from "it's hell!" To "this scene is amazing!" 😂
Tsunami are like whips, harmless at the wrist but supersonic at the tips.
It must be heartbreaking to see that coming in, and right before your eyes it takes everything, and you would never feel more powerless in your entire life.
That's true
Literally recommended after 8years RIP for those who lost their lives
the day water overdose killed 15000 people
*10 years
@@sandror.4927 it shows me 8years
@@alibro675 yeah but the tsunami itself was in 2011.
So 10 years and 12 days
@Luke yeet Nah fam, that's the date the footage was uploaded to YT.
We never forget that.
When I was 24 years old in Tokyo for work, it came to Japan very huge earthquake.
Many people is died, around 700 people is died by earthquake, 15000 people is died by TSUNAMI.
Please remember this movie, you MUST go to top of mountain or 3F higher floor when you get a huge earthquake.
Please remember.
Please save your life.
I remember watching all about this on TV. It was so scary! The way the wave was as far as you could see across both ways, just one wave! Then the extreme flooding!!!
I can’t believe that it’s been 10 years since this disaster occurred, I was still in elementary school when I saw this on national news, my condolences to the Japanese community.
I was on a college oceanography class shortly year after this happened, we watched SO much footage! It was horrifying! But it was the best example we've really ever had of a modern day tsunami.
@@jellyfishi_ If you are suggesting it doesn't take a community to make up a nation then you are mistaken.
There's only one Japanese community? Weird. I mean... I know the island is small, but to have only ONE community seems a bit far-fetched...
@@jellyfishi_
Well, that particular Japanese community. The one that was recording and the people the live or lived there. Feel better now.
@@jellyfishi_oh just shut the fuck up and stop trying to make a problem out of anything
So yeah, CZcams decided to recommend this on the 10th birthday of this tragedy.
8th it was 8 years ago so its inpossible to be 10 years :>
@@maceisgone1317 The uuuh...
The Earthquake and the Tsunami happened on the 11th of March 2011...
That's 10 years
"CZcams decided", a lot of people today searched it for this reason, so the video got in the trend
@@maceisgone1317 uploaded time doesnt mean the tragedy time
Expect the worst prepare for it this is history it always repeats itself.
Eeriest moments ever, the "calm before the storm" while you wait for it to come...
We felt that earthquake before Tsunami in New Delhi, India, it was huge
The CZcams AI gathered us again at this very special event
Always remember on CZcams your never alone, the AI is always there.
Video posted.... 9 years ago.
RandomJoe comments....5 hours ago.
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It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this it’s still so frightening how the water just keeps coming
Something about the fact that its not a massive wave but like the whole oceans come to swallow everything. It's horrifying
This is what happened to Atlantis and Egypt basically
Ikr, I found a fear I didn't know I had.
Thats why i love the Japanese people, even in the face of danger they see how cool it is when sht gets wracked.
Thats why they always bounce back stronger.