My mom told me when I was a little kid, "If the ocean suddenly runs away, you run too! The other way, and go up as high as you can! Because it WILL come back, in a HUGE way that can KILL you!" Please repeat my mom's words of wisdom to your kids and friends!
I remember being taught or learning the same thing in school as a child. And I grew up 2 hours from the coast....It doesn't make sense to me how the people that seem to live on the coast in these videos did not know what was coming
This is 2024: i'm a tsunami survivor in sri lanka ..i was little kid when my mom ran holding me to survive ..and i want to say this was first time people experienced this .. half of people had no idea what is tsunami even mean!!! So don't blame this people cos every single person died on that day u can see in this video .. specially in this area no one survived .. this is colombo and when this happened i was in galle
When the water returns back to the ocean, you still have 10-15mins to save your life. Run or move away as far as you could or you can go somewhere higher place. Its a sign that it will waive back
Well it depends on the circumstances, such as how close the epicenter was to shore, how strong it was, the specific physical qualities of the coastline, etc. During 2011 Japan earthquake, some towns only had 6 minutes after the shaking stopped to evacuate.
One of the basic principles is that the water will draw down the same distance that it will go above the regular water level when it comes back. So, if it goes down 5 meters, the wave will go 5 meters above where it started. Therefor, the wave will be 10 meters from the trough to the crest when it breaks.
17 years ago after this tragedy tsunami, i just wanna say thanks for 50+ country helping us 😭, may God bless your all 🤲 i cant forget this disaster and still traumatic till now.
Finally, some videos with RAW quality, all the videos in documentaries, and all other stuff are all pixeled as hell. Don`t understand how we have better videos from 40`s then 2000`s, accidents
Oh you mean the videos compressed to nearly unwatchable quality for rapid upload? Of course it could be storage maintenance on the UA-cam end, compressing footage of a certain age or view frequency but definitely agree with you. Some military footage is deliberately downgraded to conceal the actual quality but like bank and other security video ya gotta wonder how they know what color eyes a robber had when the face is made of about 3 gray pixels :)
Me and my family stayed at the global tower hotel where this was filmed from the week prior. Thank god we were on the hill country at the time tsunami hit.
Pero que sunami si la gente está ahí tan tranquila.Habria mar de fondo y se firmó una ola grande eso se ve un mar abierto .Yo vivo en un pueblo de España en el sur lo baña el Mediterráneo y la playa de mi barrio a veces con el levante también se mete el agua al paseo.Saludos
I am working in the hospital ship USNS Mercy when this happened we are send to Banda Aceh Indonesia to take care of their casualties. It's my honor to serve specially in this time of need.
@@margaretematulo9490 thank you very much for your services. I was assigned to work in the engine room of that hospital ship 🚢 USNS MERCY that year 2004. I retired year 2008. I now leave here in San Antonio Texas ooooooh YEAH. Great State of Texas.
Nice video capture by the uploader. Technically video shows the withdrawl of the sea into the ocean due to the sudden shift in the ocean base. though the change in withdrawl is slow, its in the eye of the beholder to note the sensitive changes in the oceanic activity in this video. the poor bystanders cannot judge whats going far far away from their ground in the Indonesian region. probably in the aftermath all of them were washed away or something. 10/10 for the person who captured the video for 20 mins.
I'm amazed that people who watch this think it's a waste to time. The sea is giving those people in the video a very clear warning that a catastrophic event is only minutes away. As soon as the sea started lapping at the railroad tracks, you knew there was a storm somewhere, then within minutes it reversed to a extremely low point, which confirms that it's a tsunami, and it will hit THAT beach. It's time to get to safety, and you only have minutes to save yourself from drowning
Thank you. I'm glad to see someone mention that detail. These people had no idea what was going to hit them. And all those who watch this horrific tragedy should not judge the actions of anyone until they've walked in those same shoes. Even with the generous gift of hindsight, many people would be shocked to know that they would NOT react as the believe they would, if found in the same situation. They better hope it's not on YT if they do. As we know, people's judgments can be quite harsh.
I have absolutely no idea how I would react in this same situation. It's very easy to sit here safely watching and say that I would have done it all better, but who knows?
I've never seen this clip before. But it is the clearest evidence of how the sea behaves in a catastrophic tsunami event. Even more horrifying is that people on the ground didn't understand what was about to happen to them.
Colombo is on the west facing side of the island so it got a relatively minor event in comparison to the east side of Sri Lanka and the east facing shores of south India where together thousands died.
@@naufalasyraf42 Yes, of course. They were the closest to the epicenter and so got the worst damage from the tsunami. But that's in Sumatra. This is Sri Lanka.
if you like to read, you can read Sonali Deraniyagala's book called Wave. It's about how she lost her two sons, husband, parents, best friend, and her best friend's mother to the 2004 tsunami and how she cope up after everything. That book won many prizes. Now she's married to Actress Fiona Shaw, Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series
It might not be that exciting to watch, as there (luckily I'd say) weren't that big tsunami waves. But, I still find this video interesting, as you can see what it looked like, when the water drew back into the ocean.
Remember where the water line usually is and how deep it was where the ocean floor was exposed. Because when the water recedes is coming back the other way at least that far and that high. You should especially be worried about how deep was exposed because if the land doesn’t slop very high when leaving the beach the water is going very far inland.
2004 yil olmasina ragmen,videoyu cok iyi almis olan hangi telefonmus bu,yeni olmus gibi,cok uzuju durum,bir belanin gelisini cok gec anlamislar 😢denizde bir kere uyarmis,ikincisinde almis goturmus,allahim korusun hepimizi
Apparently people have forgotten about real cameras. Not every camera is a phone, zoom lenses are very common in other cameras, especially video cameras. Even cheap camcorders can have 40x or higher optical zoom(enlargement caused by lenses, not digital enlargement), eg: ua-cam.com/video/iykG0KWqzgg/v-deo.html Even tape based cameras, as would've been common during the 2004 tsunami, often had 20x or more.
They didn’t know. No one knew anything about tsunamis prior to 2004. I mean the common people, not scientists. After that tragic day alert systems came to place for Indian ocean and the awareness among people rose.
@@Adriana-eu6ty Every one knew about tsunamis they have happened over the centuries. As usual people don't believe it would happen to them just like people who get out of cars to get close to wild animals like bears and lions then are attacked or killed. People are stupid.
From above, its like ants scurrying around panicking. This 04’ disaster was horrible. I remember being a student, and every few hours the death total on the yahoo homepage would rise, for WEEKS. It was such a big disaster, that it took about a week for the media to even wrap their head around what had happened. 04’ Indian Ocean, 11’ Japan......two all-millennial events, so close together, but at the very least, people can SEE how important tsunami detection systems are. Seems like a warning to be better prepared next time. Many of the countries in the Indian Ocean had no warning at all. Japan had the largest sea walls ever made, and it didn’t matter.
Spectators are just waiting for the ocean to come to them for once. Amazing how people just stood around like the water would stop because it’s not supposed to cross the road.
down at the back of the beach to around 3 metres at the water breaking edge. I was about half a mile from the beach and it was really hard to predict what was going to happen until there was around an hour of massive seas slamming into the land so hard I never thought it possible, and after a really terribly bad ten minutes was over there was a drop to rock that was the 10 M from the top of the sea wall which was usually just over a metre down from the sea wall. Amazing nature.
People didn't know any better, and one can't blame them. However, it's crazy how a little critical thought-such as 'when the water goes away this quickly, it might come back even more quickly'-could have saved your life in that moment.
What's the best way to get in contact with you. Do you have LinkedIn or Facebook or can you drop your email here? I'm from a documentary company and we would like to license and credit this footage in our upcoming memorial documentary about the Boxing Day Tsunami. Would be great to hear back from you!
this was such an eye-opening video, really well done! it’s incredible to see the power of nature captured like this. that being said, i’ve gotta admit, some parts felt a bit sensationalized for views. i wonder if it's really appropriate to showcase such tragedy without a deeper focus on the human impact? just a thought!
The thing about tsunamis is how long of a wave they are. In the open ocean a tsunami wave may only be 2-3 meters high but is tens of thousands of meters from the front to the back of the wave. When it hits the coast the wave increases in height but is followed by tens of thousands of meters of water closely behind it. There wouldn't be a huge 100 meter tidal wave, instead, there would be 20 waves 15 meters high all pushing the water further inland.
Has anyone else from childhood been taught to run to higher ground when the tide suddenly goes out like this? I feel like it is just me after watching all of these tsunami videos where everyone is walking towards the beach, out into the exposed sand and just standing there.
Actually, it's not necessarily the sea BEHIND a tsunami that gives it its power, but the sea UNDER it. See, water displacement such as what happened in both the 2004 and 2011 tsunamis affects the entire column of water, from the sea floor all the way to the top. The energy of the entire column then travels as a wave. However, most waves are created by winds and other forces above the water. Therefore, they do have a very deep affect. They may LOOK big, but underneath, the energy is very shallow.
Some Sri Lankan guy please correct me if I'm wrong. This does not seem to be Colombo Beach as I had visited it in March 2003 almost one and a half years before this deadly incident happened. There is first Galle face road on the beach side of Colombo city and train track is far away from beach side. But here in footage we see train tracks first closer to the beach. Am I right. I'm from Pakistan. 🇵🇰
me parece increible que en este pais donde filmaron esto la gente no sepa que cuando sube la marea y de un momento a otro baja de esa manera es x que algo malo esta pasando ya sea un tsunami o lo que sea,la gente en lugar de ponerse de curiosa debe alejarse lo mas que puedan de ahi, en fin deben capacitar mas a la gente nadie esta listo para algo como esto pero si hay que saber algo
Increíble pero puede más el morbo en el momento que ponerse a pensar que algo malo pueda pasar,,,,,, muchos murieron, tan fácil que era correr y buscar lugares altos ,,,,, espero nunca más vuelva a pasar algo así en el mundo
Here on brazil this don't hapen but ours coast is very dangerous because we have one strong current of return be arrasted for she then I see the desperate the people want facility understand is the nature collection one high price maybe this payment any people's need pay with the life if world walk on same way going different.
They're only NOW classic. Knowledge was limited back then, most didn't even know what a tsunami was, let alone the signs. That was the first time it happened.
Люди живущие на побережье должны же знать какую опасность несут такие волны , ведь , цунами случаются не раз в тысячу лет , но они стоят и не спасаются. Странно .
Am from a volcanic island and from birth u are taught keep ur eyes on sea and on the mountain top,any slight earthquake we ran for hill because there might be a tidal wave coming. And u are taught don't look back til u reach the top.
I dont get the 35k downvotes. this is history...not a youtube challenge. The sea is gone at 816, even I KNOW that is a sign of trouble and I live 500 miles from a beach.
Great....patiently taken video and patiently watched ...saw how innocent people behaved.....in future when we see some strange phenomenon we should back off from....prewarning sign.
As pessoas ficam tudo olhando ninguém espera para Tsunami chegar por que muitas perdem a vida olhando coisa terrível coisa triste que Tsunami corram se protejam pelo amor de Deus 🙌🙌
I was checking in Google Maps where exactly this is, and you can note how big was that tsunami that even affected this place located totally opposed (in west coast of Sri Lanka) to where the earthquake that provoked it happened (miles away in front of east coast)
@@Yasin_2312 Hundreds of people died in Somalia, despite being thousands of kilometres away. Bangladesh was just lucky that the way the tsunami dispersed, and the topography between them, which helped minimize the effect there.
Eartquartke from banda aceh sumatra 9.1SR and than stunami destroyed banda aceh and many countri in asia and afrika , The biggest stunami ever . Pray to all victim
![Tsunami, Great East Japan Earthquake, Sendai airport, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan [11 Mar 2011]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mk68bZ701s0/mqdefault.jpg)
My mom told me when I was a little kid, "If the ocean suddenly runs away, you run too! The other way, and go up as high as you can! Because it WILL come back, in a HUGE way that can KILL you!" Please repeat my mom's words of wisdom to your kids and friends!
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@@itsallaboutmywayofthinking4052 .
Amen🙏 even school taught me that,these idiots never learned
The ocean will recede like that before the tsunami.
I remember being taught or learning the same thing in school as a child. And I grew up 2 hours from the coast....It doesn't make sense to me how the people that seem to live on the coast in these videos did not know what was coming
This is 2024: i'm a tsunami survivor in sri lanka ..i was little kid when my mom ran holding me to survive ..and i want to say this was first time people experienced this .. half of people had no idea what is tsunami even mean!!! So don't blame this people cos every single person died on that day u can see in this video .. specially in this area no one survived .. this is colombo and when this happened i was in galle
im here before 20 years after 2004 tsunami. my biggest condolances for 2004 disaster victims. our family in Aceh also have higher impact😢
When the water returns back to the ocean, you still have 10-15mins to save your life. Run or move away as far as you could or you can go somewhere higher place. Its a sign that it will waive back
Sometimes not that long but at least a few moments. Either way dont walk, run.
It's always good to have good cardio.
Well it depends on the circumstances, such as how close the epicenter was to shore, how strong it was, the specific physical qualities of the coastline, etc. During 2011 Japan earthquake, some towns only had 6 minutes after the shaking stopped to evacuate.
One of the basic principles is that the water will draw down the same distance that it will go above the regular water level when it comes back. So, if it goes down 5 meters, the wave will go 5 meters above where it started. Therefor, the wave will be 10 meters from the trough to the crest when it breaks.
Just like gold diggers when they fine that u have a lot of money
17 years ago after this tragedy tsunami, i just wanna say thanks for 50+ country helping us 😭, may God bless your all 🤲
i cant forget this disaster and still traumatic till now.
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Those people on video are dead?
@@partidascompletasdefutebolYeah 😭💀
20 years back but everything is still fresh
@@jullzxan2683 the same here too thank you very much for helping us take care of those people in Banda Aceh Indonesia 🇮🇩
Finally, some videos with RAW quality, all the videos in documentaries, and all other stuff are all pixeled as hell. Don`t understand how we have better videos from 40`s then 2000`s, accidents
Oh you mean the videos compressed to nearly unwatchable quality for rapid upload? Of course it could be storage maintenance on the UA-cam end, compressing footage of a certain age or view frequency but definitely agree with you. Some military footage is deliberately downgraded to conceal the actual quality but like bank and other security video ya gotta wonder how they know what color eyes a robber had when the face is made of about 3 gray pixels :)
You can't ask too much when you have chinese technology!
Who got recommended to watch this in quarantine when this vid was uploaded like 7 years ago
P40 G4M3R bruh same
@@_elius Yee dunno why tho bit it happened to me couple of times
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क्वारांटाइन में तो नहीं लेकिन लॉकडॉउन में जरूर देख रही हूं।
8-9 min in the water reached it's lowest point. In other words, you have about 10 min to reach safety.
Me and my family stayed at the global tower hotel where this was filmed from the week prior. Thank god we were on the hill country at the time tsunami hit.
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Pero que sunami si la gente está ahí tan tranquila.Habria mar de fondo y se firmó una ola grande eso se ve un mar abierto .Yo vivo en un pueblo de España en el sur lo baña el Mediterráneo y la playa de mi barrio a veces con el levante también se mete el agua al paseo.Saludos
what tsunami 😂😂😂
ياالله نبي فزعتك
I am working in the hospital ship USNS Mercy when this happened we are send to Banda Aceh Indonesia to take care of their casualties. It's my honor to serve specially in this time of need.
Thank you for your service. 💞💞
I wish I can be in their service❤
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@@margaretematulo9490 thank you very much for your services. I was assigned to work in the engine room of that hospital ship 🚢 USNS MERCY that year 2004. I retired year 2008. I now leave here in San Antonio Texas ooooooh YEAH. Great State of Texas.
This tsunami is nuklir torpedo by us navy
Nice video capture by the uploader. Technically video shows the withdrawl of the sea into the ocean due to the sudden shift in the ocean base. though the change in withdrawl is slow, its in the eye of the beholder to note the sensitive changes in the oceanic activity in this video. the poor bystanders cannot judge whats going far far away from their ground in the Indonesian region. probably in the aftermath all of them were washed away or something. 10/10 for the person who captured the video for 20 mins.
Yes i too absorbed video quality is best .
Saya dari bali indonesia🇲🇨🙏
Regret to say I do not agree. The operator might have tied his camera to a rope and let it swing from the balcony to get the effect we see.
@@michaelwesterland1853bro the camera literally zooms into an airplane. What are you on about
I'm amazed that people who watch this think it's a waste to time.
The sea is giving those people in the video a very clear warning that a catastrophic event is only minutes away. As soon as the sea started lapping at the railroad tracks, you knew there was a storm somewhere, then within minutes it reversed to a extremely low point, which confirms that it's a tsunami, and it will hit THAT beach.
It's time to get to safety, and you only have minutes to save yourself from drowning
It was a waste of time
It’s easy for us to say this AFTER the fact. It wasn’t until this happened that I knew the warning signs
Thank you. I'm glad to see someone mention that detail. These people had no idea what was going to hit them. And all those who watch this horrific tragedy should not judge the actions of anyone until they've walked in those same shoes. Even with the generous gift of hindsight, many people would be shocked to know that they would NOT react as the believe they would, if found in the same situation. They better hope it's not on YT if they do. As we know, people's judgments can be quite harsh.
I have absolutely no idea how I would react in this same situation. It's very easy to sit here safely watching and say that I would have done it all better, but who knows?
@@rhondahunt8080 They were so very lucky, it wasn't another Japan 2011.
This tsunami in 2004 and the Japan tsunami taught us very much .
@@rhondahunt8080 Probably better than most people, curiously following the beach to its front and then get swept away.
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I've never seen this clip before. But it is the clearest evidence of how the sea behaves in a catastrophic tsunami event. Even more horrifying is that people on the ground didn't understand what was about to happen to them.
Makes me incredibly sad to think they had no idea what was about to happen. Poor people. One can only hope it was over quick.
Colombo is on the west facing side of the island so it got a relatively minor event in comparison to the east side of Sri Lanka and the east facing shores of south India where together thousands died.
Aceh got massive damage
@@naufalasyraf42 Yes, of course. They were the closest to the epicenter and so got the worst damage from the tsunami. But that's in Sumatra. This is Sri Lanka.
The West definitely fared better. I was wishing my husband and I had chosen the Western side.
@@BabyMonkeyDefender What city were you visiting when the tsunami happened?
In this video you can see quite beautifully how the sea rises and recedes multiple times before the arrival of the main inundating wave.
So beautiful that people had to die for it…..
@@evilnaruto9229 stupid people you mean
@@vladeputinovic6128 nobody in these places knew or were even taught what a tsunami was, be a bit more considerate
@@pranavgurunathan4349 Ignorance is sometimes not a bliss 👍
@@vladeputinovic6128 how is it their own fault if no one ever taught them?
If you see the water retreating get the hell out of there, unless you live in a place with low tide.
The first time I dislike a video. You publicly told lies.. pls go to h...
This is a sad thing but i hope everyone who survived has got back into their feet and move on with their lives. Stay safe everyone
Whats sad is that they were too dense to get to safety .-.
@@Koo_Koo Idiot.
if you like to read, you can read Sonali Deraniyagala's book called Wave. It's about how she lost her two sons, husband, parents, best friend, and her best friend's mother to the 2004 tsunami and how she cope up after everything. That book won many prizes. Now she's married to Actress Fiona Shaw, Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series
It wiped out near 250,000 you ingrate
Shut
It might not be that exciting to watch, as there (luckily I'd say) weren't that big tsunami waves. But, I still find this video interesting, as you can see what it looked like, when the water drew back into the ocean.
Its so loud that i cant hear a thing.
😂......
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People in quarantine : damn so hot today!
UA-cam: hey since its hot today have some cool refreshing Tsunami.
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This uploader has wasted my time in this 21st century.
You should learn to wait for nothing!!!
dViii 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 And you just made my day....😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Me too,agree with you. Totally boring.
dViii why was this in my recommended lol
ua-cam.com/video/47TziAWp21A/v-deo.html
Remember where the water line usually is and how deep it was where the ocean floor was exposed. Because when the water recedes is coming back the other way at least that far and that high. You should especially be worried about how deep was exposed because if the land doesn’t slop very high when leaving the beach the water is going very far inland.
2004 yil olmasina ragmen,videoyu cok iyi almis olan hangi telefonmus bu,yeni olmus gibi,cok uzuju durum,bir belanin gelisini cok gec anlamislar 😢denizde bir kere uyarmis,ikincisinde almis goturmus,allahim korusun hepimizi
Suddenly why after so many years you are recommending this, the nation wants to know?
Me too. I want to know.
God's Plan - Drake
It's weird isn't it
Damas MS yeah man 😅
Brian Stefanick it’s a punch line of an famous news reporter 😅
When they knew that it's dangerous but they still go near the shore. Ah, people.
To see how tsunami looks like😅
maybe to see how it works
Was it dangerous?
they're like saying 'oh this's a scene in a movie, finally I can see it directly'.
@@user-dm2hr3qk9l yeah
This is a tsunami! Tsunamis don’t look like what you see in movies :)
Sheima Amara this is not a tsunami
chris ventresca its tsunami.
@@masterz9136 we both spelled it the exact same way
Yeah its tsunami in small impact, the biggest impact tsunami dec 2004 is on sumatra indonesia
It's just a waves.
What kind of camera this man used? Like 100Mp ,very good zooming
This was in 2004 man
Apparently people have forgotten about real cameras. Not every camera is a phone, zoom lenses are very common in other cameras, especially video cameras.
Even cheap camcorders can have 40x or higher optical zoom(enlargement caused by lenses, not digital enlargement), eg: ua-cam.com/video/iykG0KWqzgg/v-deo.html
Even tape based cameras, as would've been common during the 2004 tsunami, often had 20x or more.
I literally cannot understand how people were still able to stand around like that when they know they're in trouble!!!
They didn’t know. No one knew anything about tsunamis prior to 2004. I mean the common people, not scientists. After that tragic day alert systems came to place for Indian ocean and the awareness among people rose.
@@Adriana-eu6ty Yep no one knew.
It's uncommon in Sri Lanka, Last time it happened, over 1700 years
They just thought it was a tidal wave.
@@Adriana-eu6ty Every one knew about tsunamis they have happened over the centuries. As usual people don't believe it would happen to them just like people who get out of cars to get close to wild animals like bears and lions then are attacked or killed. People are stupid.
I have seen "a l o t" of Tsunami videos. This has got to be the most gut wrenching of all.it must have been such a horrendous experience to film.
colombo is on the western side of sri lanka so the affect was much smaller than the eastern side...
From above, its like ants scurrying around panicking. This 04’ disaster was horrible. I remember being a student, and every few hours the death total on the yahoo homepage would rise, for WEEKS. It was such a big disaster, that it took about a week for the media to even wrap their head around what had happened.
04’ Indian Ocean, 11’ Japan......two all-millennial events, so close together, but at the very least, people can SEE how important tsunami detection systems are. Seems like a warning to be better prepared next time. Many of the countries in the Indian Ocean had no warning at all. Japan had the largest sea walls ever made, and it didn’t matter.
Teacher:how to survive a disaster?
Me: be a camera man
Not funny. This comment infests every disaster video, is totally distasteful & frankly stupid. It's clearly not even remotely relevant here.
Wow. That was probably the greatest video of a tsunami that I have ever seen
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I can't believe you stopped recording right as the big wave was coming
When the ocean goes away like that, YOU RUN for your life to higher ground!
Pengen ngumpulin penonton orang indonesia ada kh😁
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Sory telat 6 bulan
Sorry telat 7 bulan wkwk
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In this lovely Seaside Town i was 27 years ago. Town was like a small paradise.
Spectators are just waiting for the ocean to come to them for once. Amazing how people just stood around like the water would stop because it’s not supposed to cross the road.
Without the sound, we cant feel the atmosphere, too bad.
And without the atmosphere, there is no sound.
Think about it.
I think the correct term for this is surge. Not tsunami.
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High tied🤷🏻♂️
Tsunami aluthgama 2004
Yes it's right it just big wave or large wave
What they are running a railway on the coastline?? It will erode every 10 yrs good steady income for politicians.
You clearly know how this works 😂
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Water returning to the sea is crazy powerful. Bending over parking meters in some spots of hilo Hawaii. Not enough footage of returning ocean.
down at the back of the beach to around 3 metres at the water breaking edge. I was about half a mile from the beach and it was really hard to predict what was going to happen until there was around an hour of massive seas slamming into the land so hard I never thought it possible, and after a really terribly bad ten minutes was over there was a drop to rock that was the 10 M from the top of the sea wall which was usually just over a metre down from the sea wall. Amazing nature.
9 year later
People didn't know any better, and one can't blame them. However, it's crazy how a little critical thought-such as 'when the water goes away this quickly, it might come back even more quickly'-could have saved your life in that moment.
Fun fact: you did not search for this.
So bored of seeing this comment on every viral video
lol 🤣
bet everyone does that just for the likes lol
I'm gonna search for tsunamis now tho
Funner fact: i actually did
What's the best way to get in contact with you. Do you have LinkedIn or Facebook or can you drop your email here? I'm from a documentary company and we would like to license and credit this footage in our upcoming memorial documentary about the Boxing Day Tsunami. Would be great to hear back from you!
this was such an eye-opening video, really well done! it’s incredible to see the power of nature captured like this. that being said, i’ve gotta admit, some parts felt a bit sensationalized for views. i wonder if it's really appropriate to showcase such tragedy without a deeper focus on the human impact? just a thought!
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...TIMMY STILL DON'T HAVE A MIC. ...HE SMOKED THE MONEY AWAY!
This is not tsunami. People are enjoying the sea waves 🌊. The most important thing is the railway track running along the coastline.
The thing about tsunamis is how long of a wave they are. In the open ocean a tsunami wave may only be 2-3 meters high but is tens of thousands of meters from the front to the back of the wave. When it hits the coast the wave increases in height but is followed by tens of thousands of meters of water closely behind it. There wouldn't be a huge 100 meter tidal wave, instead, there would be 20 waves 15 meters high all pushing the water further inland.
Has anyone else from childhood been taught to run to higher ground when the tide suddenly goes out like this? I feel like it is just me after watching all of these tsunami videos where everyone is walking towards the beach, out into the exposed sand and just standing there.
No sound?
Thanks for great footage
i am Sri lankan
and i can tell you that was a day you can never forgert
6:35 water returns back people still dont know what's going on
Actually, it's not necessarily the sea BEHIND a tsunami that gives it its power, but the sea UNDER it. See, water displacement such as what happened in both the 2004 and 2011 tsunamis affects the entire column of water, from the sea floor all the way to the top. The energy of the entire column then travels as a wave. However, most waves are created by winds and other forces above the water. Therefore, they do have a very deep affect. They may LOOK big, but underneath, the energy is very shallow.
Sarith abeygunawardena Is there a point to your reply?
Thanks Dr. Science.
Some Sri Lankan guy please correct me if I'm wrong. This does not seem to be Colombo Beach as I had visited it in March 2003 almost one and a half years before this deadly incident happened. There is first Galle face road on the beach side of Colombo city and train track is far away from beach side. But here in footage we see train tracks first closer to the beach. Am I right.
I'm from Pakistan. 🇵🇰
Why those people are simply watching the wave, they should run away for their life..
Omg just watching this makes me wanna run away. Cant believe they not running 😅
Because people had no idea what was going on.. its was the first tsunami that Sri Lankan people ever faced.
me parece increible que en este pais donde filmaron esto la gente no sepa que cuando sube la marea y de un momento a otro baja de esa manera es x que algo malo esta pasando ya sea un tsunami o lo que sea,la gente en lugar de ponerse de curiosa debe alejarse lo mas que puedan de ahi, en fin deben capacitar mas a la gente nadie esta listo para algo como esto pero si hay que saber algo
Increíble pero puede más el morbo en el momento que ponerse a pensar que algo malo pueda pasar,,,,,, muchos murieron, tan fácil que era correr y buscar lugares altos ,,,,, espero nunca más vuelva a pasar algo así en el mundo
Половина погибших -туристы
It is not Tsunami, don't
waste time & Data
Sundar Raghunathan this was tsunami in 2004 in Wellawatta beach cost. Were you born @ that time? Ask from your parents
Here on brazil this don't hapen but ours coast is very dangerous because we have one strong current of return be arrasted for she then I see the desperate the people want facility understand is the nature collection one high price maybe this payment any people's need pay with the life if world walk on same way going different.
bullshit waste my time
He filmed only the beginning. The actually fun part is left out
@@MaikeruX88 then don't promote this video
So all these people, living by the ocean, completely ignore classic signs of a tsunami. Go figure!
Most people never heard of a tsunami before 2004 .
Yah and you no that some people in are county is a little stupid
@@littlegamer3034 Definitely a true statement.
@@tbanger7345 Perhaps, for some people in areas not prone to earthquakes and/or living in coastal areas.
They're only NOW classic. Knowledge was limited back then, most didn't even know what a tsunami was, let alone the signs. That was the first time it happened.
Where is the sunami in your video
An excellent video. 💙 T.E.N.
Люди живущие на побережье должны же знать какую опасность несут такие волны , ведь , цунами случаются не раз в тысячу лет , но они стоят и не спасаются. Странно .
why this video appeared on my homepage, after 7 years of uploading
The camera is not positioned even for a minute in any direction to have a better view
Exactly
Did you choose to keep this silent?
Sorry but I have a question, where is the Big wave? Here in this video this is the entire tsunami?
Qué pasó con el audio?? 🔊
sos el unico que habla español
@@mateoblancov.8230 los 2!!
I feel cheated of my internet bundles and precious time, though it's lockdown time. Or where was the tsunami 😂😂😂
I get old waiting for sounds
This is Colombo Sri Lanka, one of the lowest affected regions during the 2004 tsunami. Waves only upto 1.5 m
Find other videos 2004 Tsunami on Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Maldives, India, Thailand, Somalia, etc.
Thanks for this
Actually I wasn't born when this happened to my country
It was great that I at least got to watch it 😁😁😁😁
😂😂
The size of the wave approaching at the end, even to this day is hard for the brain to visualise and it makes no sense, it's amazing.
Am from a volcanic island and from birth u are taught keep ur eyes on sea and on the mountain top,any slight earthquake we ran for hill because there might be a tidal wave coming. And u are taught don't look back til u reach the top.
I was Drinking 6 cup of coffe :( but they Tsunami still missing 😂😂😂
😂
Did anyone else almost smash their phone waiting for the giant wave to actually reach the shore?
Oh ya, still waiting...
@@elizabethnovak4088 😂
Legends come and see the comment and went out from the video without wasting time
Spoken like a true legend 🤣🤣. I like that
I fast forwarded the video I think I am half legend
dhatchayani m wow
dhatchayani m its me
I dont get the 35k downvotes. this is history...not a youtube challenge. The sea is gone at 816, even I KNOW that is a sign of trouble and I live 500 miles from a beach.
I was kinda expecting a wave to smother everyghing here? Is there a part 2?
Same here...
Great....patiently taken video and patiently watched ...saw how innocent people behaved.....in future when we see some strange phenomenon we should back off from....prewarning sign.
As pessoas ficam tudo olhando ninguém espera para Tsunami chegar por que muitas perdem a vida olhando coisa terrível coisa triste que Tsunami corram se protejam pelo amor de Deus 🙌🙌
I was checking in Google Maps where exactly this is, and you can note how big was that tsunami that even affected this place located totally opposed (in west coast of Sri Lanka) to where the earthquake that provoked it happened (miles away in front of east coast)
Well Bangladesh was directly in the Tsunami Zone but only 2 people were killed
@@Yasin_2312 Hundreds of people died in Somalia, despite being thousands of kilometres away. Bangladesh was just lucky that the way the tsunami dispersed, and the topography between them, which helped minimize the effect there.
@@DoubleMonoLR this makes me happy because Bangladesh is really vulnerable to floods and typhoons so I’m happy they escaped from the tsunami
@@Yasin_2312 yeah , Bay Of Bengal isn't calm...!! Nature is beautiful and very cruel at the same time.....
Im sri lanka respect bro😉🇱🇰
Bravo bro..if nxt super tsunami come..u won't able to tke video again!!!
19:00 Tsunami is till missing
I found people chilling in beach till end of the video 😂😢😢
Really🙄 I'm out then lol
It never came
i feel like fool waiting for it
Is that something you'd enjoy watching? Fkn sadist
tsunami didn't affect in Colombo side...but the southern side..he mentioned here that this is Colombo
I am at the hotel where this was filled right now (it's now a quartine center)
Why this got recommended. it's been 7 years I didn't even watch this type videos
My father was born here. I’ve visited. But I am curious how bad it was for Colombo?
Let me guess?
Ur guys are watching this without full screen
Recorded December 26th, 2004
Uploaded February 3rd, 2013
Recommended May 9th, 2020
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Where is tsunami
😅😂🤣👍
I'm not wasted my time because I was watch 😂 comment 1st then....
Это местные жители, неужели они не знают что после того как океан вбирает в себя воду он её обязательно вернёт в виде огромной и мощной волны😮
When do they start running
Eartquartke from banda aceh sumatra 9.1SR and than stunami destroyed banda aceh and many countri in asia and afrika , The biggest stunami ever . Pray to all victim
Стоят на берегу люди, ждут что бы смыло?
Жизнь этих дикарей столь ужасна, что они предпочтут ей смерть от цунами!
And the big waves? Where are the big waves?
Shri Lanka ?
Sunamiyai எதிர் noki vedio eduthitinga... Super